R Greenberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 58039 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Greenberg |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Greenberg |
| ASSINATURA | GREENBERG R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3359-6731 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 236 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
An Early Bronze Age I and II Tomb at Gadot, in the Hula Valley
Excavations at Rogem Gannim, Jerusalem
Some five kilometers west of ancient Jerusalem lies a large Iron Age tumulus. At the base of this tumulus, rock-cut installations were uncovered, including winepresses, caves and cisterns. The winepresses were first executed during the Iron Age, resembling the type that prevailed in the region west of Jerusalem during that time. The pottery and small finds from the Iron Age/Persian period included mainly storage jars, with a relative abundance of…
Paleoenvironment and Fruit Tree Horticulture at Early Bronze Age Tel Bet Yerah
This article presents the first detailed examination of a charred wood assemblage from Early Bronze Age I–III Tel Bet Yerah (ca. 3700–2500 b.c.e.). The wood-anatomy identification of the charcoal remains aims to reconstruct the nearby natural and horticultural arboreal environment as well as the long-term human-environment relations at the site and beyond it. The assemblage provides evidence for substantial fruit-tree horticulture, mainly of oliv…
Archaeology in a Time of Violence
When we published Archaeology, Nation, and Race (ANR), just two years ago, it was in the hope that our dialogue would spawn further discussions in the archaeological community. We are therefore grateful to the editors of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies for taking us at our word and offering a platform for discussion and response, and to our interlocutors—Neil Silberman, Anne Duray, Louise Hitchcock, Ianir Mil…
Archaeobotany at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak)
Archaeobotanical material from excavations at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak) provides insight into Early Bronze Age urbanisation in the Southern Levant and differences in food choices between Levantine and diasporic Early Transcaucasian communities. In the pre-urban period of the Early Bronze 1B (3350-3100 BC), comparative analysis of cereals and crop processing by-products indicates that food production was managed by individual households in …
Maintaining whiteness in archaeology
Archaeology has long been recognized for its 19th century origins in, and 20th century contributions to, imperial and settler colonialisms, as well as its complicity in modern nationalism. By implication, therefore, archaeology has been adopted as a vehicle of modernity and western supremacy and the archaeological gaze has typically been a White one. In pre-state Palestine and in 20th-century Israel, management and academic echelons in archaeolog…
Cattle drivers from the north? Animal economy of a diasporic Kura-Araxes community at Tel Bet Yerah
Kura-Araxes animal management strategies in the core regions of the tradition and in areas of its 3rd millennium expansion have seen only sporadic study. Recently excavated contexts at Tel Bet Yerah were occupied in the first part of the Early Bronze Age III (c. 2850–2700 BCE) by people using Khirbet Kerak Ware and accompanying artifacts associated with a diasporic Kura-Araxes cultural tradition; they provide a rich zooarchaeological assemblage t…
Archaeology, Nation, and Race
Archaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and adjacent fields. It demonstrates how archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colonialism, race, and nationalism. Structured as a lucid and lively dialogue between two leading scholars, the volume compares modern Greece and modern Israel – two prototypical and influential cases – where archaeology sits at the very heart of the moder…
Twenty years of Kura-Araxes research at Tel Bet Yerah
Tel Bet Yerah has provided us with an opportunity to advance the study of diasporic Kura-Araxes research in multiple ways. Reflecting on what we have learned in twenty years at the site, we summarize the evidence for an assemblage that goes far beyond Khirbet Kerak ceramics, and includes the organization of space, miniature art, stone and metal artifacts, food and fuel acquisition and consumption practices. We also reflect on our evolving underst…
What Collapsed in 1177
Not far from where you live, in the rural counties outside of town, or in a village just over the border, there are people for whom dates and events like the “Fall of the Berlin Wall,” “9/11,” the “Great Recession,” or “January 6, 2021” hold no particular meaning, or meanings quite different from those they hold for you. This is worth keeping in mind when reading the litany of catastrophes that formed a “perfect storm” for the large political and…
Fragments of an anarchic society
Neither a polity, nor a culture, nor an ethnicity in any strict sense, Kura-Araxes has been described as a 'society against the state', with an aversion to structures of economic and social centralization. What happens when such a society is thrown into an apparently dependent relationship with a settled urban population? This question is explored through the lens of Tel Bet Yerah/Khirbet el-Kerak, in the Jordan river valley, where a small diaspo…
Fishing, fish consumption, urbanism and migrants at Tel Bet Yerah, 3200-2700 BC
The role and significance of fish and fishing in the ancient Near East has been little studied. A new assemblage of fish remains and fishing gear recovered from Bronze Age Bet Yerah on the Sea of Galilee, however, offers insights into the transition from village to town life, and illuminates interactions between local populations and incoming groups. The assemblage also reveals temporal and spatial variations in the utilisation of local fish reso…
Heads or Snails? A Rustic Feast at Hellenistic Philoteria (Tel Bet Yeraḥ, Israel), circa 150 BCE
The contents of a small trash pit discovered in the recent excavations in Hellenistic Philoteria (Tel Bet Yeraḥ/Khirbet el-Kerak) offer a unique opportunity to study the components of what appears to have been a single festive meal. Extant remains include numerous mammal bones, mollusc shells, and ceramic tableware; they suggest a rustic Mediterranean cuisine, compatible with the presence of Greek settlers in pre-Hasmonean Galilee
Radiocarbon chronology of the EB I–II and II–III transitions at Tel Bet Yerah, and its implications for the nature of social change in the southern Levant
A closely controlled radiocarbon sequence for the EB I–III, compiled over six seasons of excavations at Tel Bet Yerah, Israel, provides new information on the EB I–II and II–III transitions. These dates support the possibility of a decades-long overlap between some late EB I and early EB II sites and indicate a mid- to late 29th-century cal BC date for the introduction of Khirbet Kerak Ware in the southern Levant. South Levantine EB II is shown t…
The Khirbet Kerak Ware figurine
Recent excavations of Khirbet Kerak Ware contexts at the type site of Khirbet el-Kerak/Tel Bet Yerah and re-investigation of earlier finds from this site have permitted the technological and typological identification of a distinct category of zoomorphic figurines, associated exclusively with the characteristic red-black burnished Khirbet Kerak ceramics. Comparative study shows affinity between these figurines and similar objects found in differe…
Contact between first dynasty Egypt and specific sites in the Levant
Wedded to Privilege? Archaeology, Academic Capital, and Critical Public Engagement
The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin
Olive ( Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin. Different views have been expressed regarding the geographical origins and timing of olive cultivation. Since genetic studies and macro-botanical remains point in different directions, we turn to another proxy – the palynological evidence. This study uses pollen records to shed n…
Holocene landscape dynamics and long-term population trends in the Levant
This paper explores long-term trends in human population and vegetation change in the Levant from the early to the late Holocene in order to assess when and how human impact has shaped the region’s landscapes over the millennia. To do so, we employed multiple proxies and compared archaeological, pollen and palaeoclimate data within a multi-scalar approach in order to assess how Holocene landscape dynamics change at different geographical scales. …
Khirbet Kerak Ware (Kura-Araxes) Andirons at Tel Bet Yerah
Horseshoe-shaped andirons have long been viewed, on little evidence, as a stand-in for the fire installations that play a central role in houses associated with the Kura-Araxes cultural tradition. A detailed examination of more than 100 andiron fragments from Tel Bet Yerah, accompanied by structural analysis and computerized simulation, has provided primary forensic evidence on their use, breakage and discard, and insights on their relation to ce…
The Circles Building (Granary) at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak)
New excavations conducted in the Circles Building (Granary) at Tel Bet Yerah, first excavated in 1946, form the basis for a revised, detailed description of the construction and use of this unique structure. Stratigraphic soundings have established that the structure consisted of three platforms with seven circles sunk into them, enclosing a paved courtyard that was open toward the east. The structure was constructed in a single operation, at the…
Conceiving the City
Early Bronze Age urbanization and urbanism in the Levant have long been important themes in scholarly discussion, with both the nature of the process and its results being the subject of lively debate. We view Early Bronze II (EB II) south Levantine urbanism as a novel ideological construct grounded in heterarchical modes of social organization, rather than a direct development from earlier village-based lifestyles. In the current study we employ…
Early Kura-Araxes ceramic technology in the fourth millennium BCE site of Tsaghkasar, Armenia
The Kura-Araxes phenomenon, represented by its trademark pottery, is one of the most intriguing examples of cultural expansion in the Bronze Age world. Technological analysis of pottery assemblages, providing insight into relations between producers, users, pots and the environment, can be a key to understand how the culture was maintained over time and space. We focus on Tsaghkasar, an early Kura-Araxes village in the Armenian highlands, which s…
Bet Yerah
This is the second volume in the series describing the results of 11 excavation campaigns at Tel Bet Yeraḥ over some 50 years (1933–1986). The first volume (IAA Reports 30) presented the stratigraphic framework and the Early Bronze Age pottery. This second volume comprises a companion to Volume I, presenting synthetic discussions of the excavations and finds, and the publication of further Early Bronze Age artifact assemblages, including flint, s…
Bet Yerah
Chronology of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant
The chronology of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the southern Levant and the synchronization between the sites, considering seriation and radiocarbon dates, have shown large inconsistencies and disagreement. We have assembled 420 14 C dates, most of them previously published and a few provided directly by the excavators. The dates have been re-evaluated on the basis of their archaeological context and using analytical criteria. Bayesian modeling h…
Supports, stressors, and depressive symptoms in low-income mothers of young children
We investigated the association of social supports and stresses with depressive symptoms in a sample of 111 predominantly low-income mothers of young children. The prevalence of high depressive symptoms, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies--Depression Scale (CES-D), was 48 per cent. Among unmarried women, everyday stressors were strongly associated with depressive symptoms, while life events were weakly related. Associations betwe…
The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin
Olive ( Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin. Different views have been expressed regarding the geographical origins and timing of olive cultivation. Since genetic studies and macro-botanical remains point in different directions, we turn to another proxy – the palynological evidence. This study uses pollen records to shed n…
Towards an Inclusive Archaeology in Jerusalem
The village of Silwan, in East Jerusalem, contains the remains of most ancient Jerusalem, often termed "The City of David". In recent years the excavation and presentation of the archaeology of Silwan has been placed in the hands of a Jewish settler non-governmental organization. Their incorporation of this site into the Jewish-Israeli narrative is multifaceted — mixing religious nationalism with theme-park tourism. As a result, conflict with loc…
New evidence for the Anatolian origins of ‘Khirbet Kerak Ware people’ at Tel Bet Yerah (Israel), ca 2800 BC
A Tel Bet Yerah, la fouille intensive de contextes associés à de grandes quantités de céramique Khirbet-Kerak (KKW), ainsi que de contextes associés à la poterie de tradition locale, qu’ils soient antérieurs aux contextes KKW ou contemporains, nous a permis d’élargir la définition du complexe culturel KKW. L’usage du torchis, le mobilier en terre cuite polie, une technologie lithique particulière, les supports de foyers en argile, des objets symb…
Early Bronze Age Megiddo and Bet Shean
Megiddo was, by late Early Bronze (EB) I, an important cultic center for a large, pastorally oriented village population; Bet Shean was a key redistribution center. Both of these major sites of northern Palestine were essentially abandoned in EB II. Their fate may be related to the shift in the sociopolitical landscape of EB II, characterized by uniform regional entities with an integrated town/village system. Economically incompatible with the n…
Conceiving the City
Early Bronze Age urbanization and urbanism in the Levant have long been important themes in scholarly discussion, with both the nature of the process and its results being the subject of lively debate. We view Early Bronze II (EB II) south Levantine urbanism as a novel ideological construct grounded in heterarchical modes of social organization, rather than a direct development from earlier village-based lifestyles. In the current study we employ…
Contact between first dynasty Egypt and specific sites in the Levant
Holocene landscape dynamics and long-term population trends in the Levant
This paper explores long-term trends in human population and vegetation change in the Levant from the early to the late Holocene in order to assess when and how human impact has shaped the region’s landscapes over the millennia. To do so, we employed multiple proxies and compared archaeological, pollen and palaeoclimate data within a multi-scalar approach in order to assess how Holocene landscape dynamics change at different geographical scales. …
Early Kura-Araxes ceramic technology in the fourth millennium BCE site of Tsaghkasar, Armenia
The Kura-Araxes phenomenon, represented by its trademark pottery, is one of the most intriguing examples of cultural expansion in the Bronze Age world. Technological analysis of pottery assemblages, providing insight into relations between producers, users, pots and the environment, can be a key to understand how the culture was maintained over time and space. We focus on Tsaghkasar, an early Kura-Araxes village in the Armenian highlands, which s…
Tel Bet Yerah
During more than one thousand years at the dawn of written history, ancient Bet Yerah emerged and grew to be a focal point of Early Bronze Age interaction. Established as a large village circa 3500 b.c.e., Bet Yerah was to become the prime city of the Jordan Valley, with massive fortifications, paved streets, and trade connections extending across the Levant and to Dynastic Egypt. One of the most ambitious buildings of the ancient Levant, the Cir…
Fragments of an anarchic society
Neither a polity, nor a culture, nor an ethnicity in any strict sense, Kura-Araxes has been described as a 'society against the state', with an aversion to structures of economic and social centralization. What happens when such a society is thrown into an apparently dependent relationship with a settled urban population? This question is explored through the lens of Tel Bet Yerah/Khirbet el-Kerak, in the Jordan river valley, where a small diaspo…
Fishing, fish consumption, urbanism and migrants at Tel Bet Yerah, 3200-2700 BC
The role and significance of fish and fishing in the ancient Near East has been little studied. A new assemblage of fish remains and fishing gear recovered from Bronze Age Bet Yerah on the Sea of Galilee, however, offers insights into the transition from village to town life, and illuminates interactions between local populations and incoming groups. The assemblage also reveals temporal and spatial variations in the utilisation of local fish reso…
Khirbet Kerak Ware (Kura-Araxes) Andirons at Tel Bet Yerah
Horseshoe-shaped andirons have long been viewed, on little evidence, as a stand-in for the fire installations that play a central role in houses associated with the Kura-Araxes cultural tradition. A detailed examination of more than 100 andiron fragments from Tel Bet Yerah, accompanied by structural analysis and computerized simulation, has provided primary forensic evidence on their use, breakage and discard, and insights on their relation to ce…
Introduction
Khirbet Kerak Ware has long been a magnet to students of late Levantine prehistory, offering insights into the long-distance connections at the edges of the Fertile Crescent. Despite a long history of study, the basic issues at stake—how technologies migrate and did the people who employed them migrate as well—remain unresolved. The approaches taken in a series of new studies published in this issue are introduced
Wedded to Privilege? Archaeology, Academic Capital, and Critical Public Engagement
The Earliest Occupation at Tel Bet Yerah
The 2007 sounding in the northern part of Tel Bet Yerah yielded a stratigraphic sequence spanning the initial sequence of occupation on the mound, from EB IA to EB II. A robust ceramic assemblage, supported by radiocarbon dates, highlights the earliest part of the sequence. Comprising highly localized industries (including a little-known painted tradition) as well as regional ones (including Gray Burnished Ware), the Tel Bet Yerah assemblage prov…
Maintaining whiteness in archaeology
Archaeology has long been recognized for its 19th century origins in, and 20th century contributions to, imperial and settler colonialisms, as well as its complicity in modern nationalism. By implication, therefore, archaeology has been adopted as a vehicle of modernity and western supremacy and the archaeological gaze has typically been a White one. In pre-state Palestine and in 20th-century Israel, management and academic echelons in archaeolog…
Heads or Snails? A Rustic Feast at Hellenistic Philoteria (Tel Bet Yeraḥ, Israel), circa 150 BCE
The contents of a small trash pit discovered in the recent excavations in Hellenistic Philoteria (Tel Bet Yeraḥ/Khirbet el-Kerak) offer a unique opportunity to study the components of what appears to have been a single festive meal. Extant remains include numerous mammal bones, mollusc shells, and ceramic tableware; they suggest a rustic Mediterranean cuisine, compatible with the presence of Greek settlers in pre-Hasmonean Galilee
A method for selecting criteria to evaluate medical care
This study tests a questionnaire method for eliciting process criteria for medical care appraisal. The questionnaire was sent to national samples of family physicians, pediatricians, and pediatricians specializing in infectious diseases asking their opinions about various clinical actions in 125 clinical situations concerning respiratory infection in infants. Five hundred twenty-four (54%) physicians returned completed questionnaires. Questionnai…
The effects of dream deprivation
Archaeobotany at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak)
Archaeobotanical material from excavations at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak) provides insight into Early Bronze Age urbanisation in the Southern Levant and differences in food choices between Levantine and diasporic Early Transcaucasian communities. In the pre-urban period of the Early Bronze 1B (3350-3100 BC), comparative analysis of cereals and crop processing by-products indicates that food production was managed by individual households in …
The effects of dream deprivation
A method for selecting criteria to evaluate medical care
This study tests a questionnaire method for eliciting process criteria for medical care appraisal. The questionnaire was sent to national samples of family physicians, pediatricians, and pediatricians specializing in infectious diseases asking their opinions about various clinical actions in 125 clinical situations concerning respiratory infection in infants. Five hundred twenty-four (54%) physicians returned completed questionnaires. Questionnai…
Supports, stressors, and depressive symptoms in low-income mothers of young children
We investigated the association of social supports and stresses with depressive symptoms in a sample of 111 predominantly low-income mothers of young children. The prevalence of high depressive symptoms, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies--Depression Scale (CES-D), was 48 per cent. Among unmarried women, everyday stressors were strongly associated with depressive symptoms, while life events were weakly related. Associations betwe…
Pottery Neolithic Levels at Tel Dan
New Light on the Early Iron Age at Tell Beit Mirsim
Tell Beit Mirsim was continuously, albeit sparsely, settled during the 13th-11th centuries B. C., and may provide a key to the understanding of this period in the southern Shephelah. Albright, identifying the site with Debir, suggested a Canaanite-Israelite-Philistine sequence for Strata C2-B1-B2. The stratigraphic and ceramic evidence, some of it previously unpublished, is here reexamined. We show that the spatial organization and architecture o…
Practice of breast self examination
Premorbid breast self examination seems to have a modest effect on the extent of disease at diagnosis. The still widespread use of radical surgery suggests that a careful reanalysis of priorities among possible public interventions is needed before launching massive educational campaigns targeted exclusively at consumers
Eth-Kazin (Place)
[Heb ʿittȃ qāṣȋn]. Town on the E border of the territory of Zebulun, between Gath-hepher on the S and Rimmon on the N (Josh 19:13). The site of Eth-kazin, or, after the LXX, Ir-kazin (Gk polis Katesem)— “the citadel of the commander”—has not been identified.
Eshtaol (Place)
[Heb ʾeštāʾȏl]. ESHTAOLITE. A town in the E part of the territory of Dan (Josh 19:41). Along with Zorah, Eshtaol comprised the core area of Danite settlement in the Judean foothills. It is this area which forms the backdrop for the activities of Samson (Judg 13:25), and it is from this area that the
Gath-Hepher (Place)
[Heb gittâ ḥēper; gat haḥē-per]. A town on the E border of the territory of Zebulun (Josh 19:13). Gath-hepher is recorded in the book of Kings (2 Kgs 14:25) as the birthplace of the prophet Jonah, son of Amittai. Jerome, in his commentary on the book of Jonah, locates Gath-hepher two miles from Sepp
Dabbesheth (Place)
[Heb dabbešet]. On the S border of the territory of Zebulun (Josh 19:11), Dabbesheth (lit. ‘hump’) may indicate a settlement site or a geographical landmark. Dabbesheth has been tentatively identified with Tel Shem (M.R. 164230), N of Jokneam, though many other sites in the near vicinity may qualify
A Third Millennium Levantine Pottery Production Center
Although long considered a hallmark of the EB II-III of northern Canaan, Metallic Ware (sometimes termed Abydos Ware, Combed Ware) has eluded systematic characterization. Defined by its highly fired fabric, Metallic Ware comprises a full range of household forms, excluding cooking pots. It is widely distributed between Taʿanakh in the south and Tyre in the north, and from Khirbet ez-Zeraqun in the east to the Mediterranean coast. Wherever found, …
Early Bronze Age Megiddo and Bet Shean
Megiddo was, by late Early Bronze (EB) I, an important cultic center for a large, pastorally oriented village population; Bet Shean was a key redistribution center. Both of these major sites of northern Palestine were essentially abandoned in EB II. Their fate may be related to the shift in the sociopolitical landscape of EB II, characterized by uniform regional entities with an integrated town/village system. Economically incompatible with the n…
Revealed in Their Cups
Proponents of EB III-IV continuity have downplayed cultural changes following the urban collapse in Canaan. Questioning this trend, we argue for a significant ceramic shift, highlighted by the introduction of the teapot and cup/chalice. This reflects a change from status definition through feasting in the Early Bronze Age to drinking in the Intermediate Bronze Age. As the expression of status through drink was prevalent in contemporary urban Syri…
The Early Bronze Age Fortifications of Tel Bet Yerah
Throughout much of its history, Early Bronze Age Bet Yerah (Khirbat al-Karak) was massively fortified. Using previously unpublished data, three superimposed fortification systems are described: the earliest (Fortification A), dated EB II (and possibly late EB I) is a massive mudbrick fortification including a paved direct-entry gateway and gate shrine; the latest (Fortification C), dated to late EB III, is an extraordinary stone and brick system …
Stamped and Incised Jar Handles from Rogem Gannim and Their Implications for the Political Economy of Jerusalem, Late 8th–Early 4th Centuries BCE
Twenty-two stamped and incised jar handles found at the site adjacent to the largest of the tumuli west of Jerusalem provide evidence for continuous administrative/commercial activity in the region during the late Iron Age and Persian period. This evidence underscores the highly specialized character of economic activity in the Nahal Refa'im basin, borne out by the discovery of several dozen winepresses of late Iron–Persian date. A significant co…
Stamped and Incised Jar Handles from Rogem Gannim and Their Implications for the Political Economy of Jerusalem, Late 8th–Early 4th Centuries BCE
Twenty-two stamped and incised jar handles found at the site adjacent to the largest of the tumuli west of Jerusalem provide evidence for continuous administrative/commercial activity in the region during the late Iron Age and Persian period. This evidence underscores the highly specialized character of economic activity in the Nahal Refa'im basin, borne out by the discovery of several dozen winepresses of late Iron–Persian date. A significant co…
Extreme Exposure
A long series of excavations has been carried out since 1967 by Israeli archaeologists in 'unified' Jerusalem. Proponents have characterised this work as revolutionary and inspired by 'a free academic spirit'; critics have viewed it as part of the 'Jewish-colonial-nationalist project'. The truth of these views, which are not mutually exclusive, lies very much in the eye of the beholder. Despite the unified legal framework governing the excavation…
Towards an Inclusive Archaeology in Jerusalem
The village of Silwan, in East Jerusalem, contains the remains of most ancient Jerusalem, often termed "The City of David". In recent years the excavation and presentation of the archaeology of Silwan has been placed in the hands of a Jewish settler non-governmental organization. Their incorporation of this site into the Jewish-Israeli narrative is multifaceted — mixing religious nationalism with theme-park tourism. As a result, conflict with loc…
Introduction
Khirbet Kerak Ware has long been a magnet to students of late Levantine prehistory, offering insights into the long-distance connections at the edges of the Fertile Crescent. Despite a long history of study, the basic issues at stake—how technologies migrate and did the people who employed them migrate as well—remain unresolved. The approaches taken in a series of new studies published in this issue are introduced
Bet Yerah, Aparan Iii Ve Karnut
First results of the comparative technology of Kura-Araxes pottery and its derivatives are presented, including analyses ofKhirbet Kerak Ware and local traditions from Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet Kerak) and material from two sites in Armenia: the fourth millennium site ofAparan III and the third millennium site ofKar-nut I. Petrographic and chaine operatoire analysis suggests that all three industries are entirely local and share a series ofcharacte…
Travelling in (World) Time
In Memoriam Itzhaq Beit-Arieh 1930–2012
Chronology of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant
The chronology of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the southern Levant and the synchronization between the sites, considering seriation and radiocarbon dates, have shown large inconsistencies and disagreement. We have assembled 420 14 C dates, most of them previously published and a few provided directly by the excavators. The dates have been re-evaluated on the basis of their archaeological context and using analytical criteria. Bayesian modeling h…
Tel Bet Yerah
During more than one thousand years at the dawn of written history, ancient Bet Yerah emerged and grew to be a focal point of Early Bronze Age interaction. Established as a large village circa 3500 b.c.e., Bet Yerah was to become the prime city of the Jordan Valley, with massive fortifications, paved streets, and trade connections extending across the Levant and to Dynastic Egypt. One of the most ambitious buildings of the ancient Levant, the Cir…
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