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• Anno: 2015
• Autore/i: Marta D'Andrea
• Catalogo: Ebla/Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
• Argomento: Archeologia
• Collana: Contributi e Materiali di Archeologia Orientale
• ISBN: 978-88-88233.16-1
• ISSN: 1120-9631

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L’opera è una versione rivista e fortemente ampliata di una tesi dottorale discussa alla Sapienza Università di Roma. Sulla base di un’ampia documentazione da 147 siti archeologici, vengono presi in esame i principali problemi cronologici e storico-archeologici relativi all’ultima fase del Bronzo Antico nel Levante meridionale. Scopo ultimo dell’opera è quello di superare vedute semplicistiche sul Bronzo Antico IV come interludio omogeneo e statico di crollo tra due fasi di urbanizzazione. Pertanto, il dato archeologico viene utilizzato, nel primo volume, per tracciare, all’interno del Bronzo Antico IV del Levante meridionale, una traiettoria progressiva, con una fase iniziale di crisi, successive al crollo del sistema socio-economico del Bronzo Antico III, una graduale rinascita e, infine, la fioritura della fase finale, che aprì la strada alla rigenerazione sociale del successivo Bronzo Medio. Metodi tradizionali di stratigrafia comparativa e tipologizzazione ceramica vengono usati per proporre una periodizzazione relativa del Bronzo Antico IV, insieme ad approcci più innovativi rivolti all’analisi dei mutamenti tecnologici che si possono identificare nei repertori ceramici stratificati, all’interno della lunga sequenza del Bronzo Antico IV, in alcuni siti-chiave. Questi ultimi vengono usati per analizzare mutamenti socio-culturali e socio-economici durante il periodo, come produzione, distribuzione e uso della ceramica, modalità insedia mentali, costumi funerari, abitudini conviviali, commerci e scambi, contatti culturali con le aree confinati. Il secondo volume comprende un dettagliato studio tipologico dell’evidenza e il catalogo dei 147 siti presi in considerazione, oltre a una ricca documentazione grafica e fotografica.

versione inglese The book is a revised and expanded version of a PhD dissertation defended at the Sapienza University of Rome. Based on an extensive dataset of 147 archaeological sites, it deals with chronological and historical-archaeological issues in the study of the last phase of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant. The ultimate aim of the study is to go beyond simplistic views of Early Bronze IV as a homogeneous and static interlude of collapse between two phases of urbanization. Thus, the archaeological dataset is used, in the first volume, to delineate within Early Bronze IV in the Southern Levant, a progressive trajectory including an early stage of crisis, after the collapse of the EB III socio-economic system, gradual recovery, and, finally, growth in a late phase, paving the way for societal regeneration during the following Middle Bronze Age. Traditional comparative stratigraphy and ceramic typology are used as means to propose a relative periodization of Early Bronze IV along more innovative approaches to technological changes identifiable in stratified ceramic assemblages within long Early Bronze IV sequences at the key-sites. These are used to investigate socio-cultural and socio-economic changes during the period, including a broad range of aspects, such as ware production, distribution, and consumption, settlement patterns, mortuary customs, convivial habits, trade and exchange, and cultural contacts with the neighbouring areas. The second volume includes a detailed typological study of the evidence, and the catalogue of the 147 archaeological sites taken into account, plus a rich graphic and photographic documentation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME I

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREMISE
CHAPTER ONE
EARLY BRONZE IV IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT. CHRONOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINES

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Aims and methodology
1.3 Terminology, chronology, and theoretical approaches
1.3.1 Terminology and archaeological periodization
1.3.2 Summary of previous research and state-of-the-art

1.4 Regional and sub-regional ceramic horizons in the Southern Levant during EB IV: the ceramic provinces

CHAPTER TWO
ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE CHRONOLOGIES FOR THE SOUTHERN LEVANTINE EB IV

2.1 Issues in chronological and stratigraphic correlations of the EB IV regional and sub- regional horizons
2.2 Relative and absolute chronologie
2.2.1 Archaeological periodization and sub-phasing
2.2.2 Radiocarbon dates and absolute chronology
2.2.3 Egyptian interconnections and the absolute chronology of the end of EB III and the beginning of MB I: summary of evidence and topics in the debate
2.2.4 The general Levantine picture: the dataset from the Northern and Central Levant and the new proposals of interpretation
2.3 Beyond typology: ceramic technology and pottery manufacturing processes as chronological markers

CHAPTER THREE
TECHNOLOGICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE SOUTHERN LEVANTINE POTTERY DURING THE EB IV PERIOD

3.1 The evolution of pottery technology during the EB IV period according to the stratigraphic sequences of the key-sites
3.2 Ceramic technology in the Southern Levant during the EB IV period. Technical features and pottery manufacture
3.2.1 Pottery technology in the “early” EB IV phase
3.2.2 Pottery technology in the “late” EB IV phase
3.3 Decorations and surface treatments

CHAPTER FOUR
STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION AND PROPOSED ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERIODIZATION

4.1 Issues in stratigraphic correlations for the southern Levantine EB IV
4.2 The northern region
4.2.1 Southern Syria
4.2.2 Southern Lebanon, the Jawlan, and Upper and northwestern Galilee
4.2.3 Lower Galilee, the northern Jordan Valley, northern Transjordan, and the Jezreel Valley
4.2.4 The north-central coast of Palestine and northern Samaria
4.3 The south-central region
4.3.1 Central and southern Palestine
4.3.2 North-central Transjordan
4.3.3 Central and southern Transjordan
4.4 Remarks on stratigraphic correlations and the archaeological periodization of the southern Levantine EB IV

CHAPTER FIVE
REGIONALISM, PATTERNS OF CERAMIC EXCHANGE, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF CERAMIC PROVINCES

5.1 EB IV regionalism in the light of the research of the last three decades
5.2 Pottery production and patterns of interaction and exchange on the basis of the available petrographic data
5.3 Production and distribution of specialized painted wares
5.3.1 Black Wheelmade Ware
5.3.2 Trickle Painted Ware
5.4 The southern Levantine pottery repertoires during EB IV: chronological and ceramic horizons
5.4.1 The ceramic horizons of the “early” EB IV phase
5.4.2 The ceramic horizons of the “late” EB IV phases

CHAPTER SIX
SOCIO-ECONOMIC, SOCIO-POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL ISSUES IN THE STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES OF SETTLEMENTS AND IN THE CERAMIC RECORD OF THE FUNERARY CONTEXTS

6.1 Settlement patterns between early and late EB IV
6.2 Elements of social stratification and expression of rank in burials
6.3 Specialized production, exchange, and trade
6.3.1 Metalwork
6.3.2 Pottery production
6.4 Relations with Egypt, the Aegean, and western Anatolia
6.5 “Amorites and Canaanites”. Origins and autonomy of the southern Levantine EB IV material culture, and the relations with the Northern Levant

CHAPTER SEVEN
CONCLUSIONS. TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF THE SOUTHERN LEVANTINE SOCIO-CULTURAL COMPLEX IN THE EB IV PERIOD

7.1 The beginning of EB IV
7.1.1 The EB II-III socio-economic system in the Southern Levant and its collapse
7.1.2 The early EB IV phase: socio-economic organization, patterns of landscape occupation and use, and archaeological visibility
7.2 The later EB IV phases: formation and development of a new network of rural communities

7.3 Transition, innovation and change between the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC in the Southern Levant
7.3.1 Theoretical approaches to the beginning of the MBA in the Southern Levant
7.3.2 The relations with Syria: different regional trajectories and the question of derivation versus cultural autonomy
7.3.3 Collapse, regeneration, and transition

ENGLISH ABSTRACT
ARABIC ABSTRACT ABBREVIATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY

VOLUME II

APPENDIX A
SETTLEMENTS, CEMETERIES, CONTEXTS
APPENDIX B
THE EB IV POTTERY OF THE SOUTHERN LEVANT: A COMPREHENSIVE CLASSIFICATION
PLATES

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