This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social
change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel …

This is a critical review of regional settlement pattern archaeology published in the last
decade. The regional approach proves to be highly productive of new ideas and lasting …

Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid
regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left …

We report results of palynological investigation of a core of sediments extracted from the
bottom of the Sea of Galilee. The core was sampled at high resolution for both palynological …

This article analyses archaeological evidence on the history of Cisjordan during the Early
Bronze Age. A new world emerged in the Near East and its manifestations signalled the end …

The fifth and fourth millennia BCE saw major cultural changes in the southern Levant and
Northeast Africa: the spread of agriculture; developments in animal husbandry; increased …

Following the first detailed work on ancient Egyptian metallurgy by Garland and Bannister
(1927), several large-scale characterisations of Egyptian copper alloy compositions have …

Conventional theory described two settlement waves in the Negev Highlands in the third
millennium BCE—in the EB II and the Intermediate Bronze Age—and a period with no …

Flint Trade in the Protohistoric Levant offers an in-depth case study of the production and
exchange of tabular scrapers. Crossing cultural and ecological boundaries and traded from …

Les productions artisanales de l'homme font partie des témoins culturels les plus pertinents
pour l'étude des périodes préhistoriques et protohistoriques, dans la mesure où elles sont …