Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age

Jesse C. Long, Jr., is Professor of Old Testament at Lubbock Christian University. William G. Dever is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Arizona.

Introduction
Suzanne Richard: An Appreciation
Jesse C. Long, Jr. and William G. Dever

Suzanne Richard Publications

Transitions
1. Diet, Drink, and Death: The Transition from the Intermediate Bronze Age to the Middle Bronze Age in the Southern Levant
Susan Cohen (Montana State University)
2. Urbanism, Collapse, and Transitions: Considerations on the EB III/IV and the EB IV/MB I Nexuses in the Southern Levant
Marta D’Andrea (Sapienza University of Rome)
3. MB II-LB I Transition in North Inner Syria: A Difficult Horizon
Frances Pinnock (Sapienza University of Rome)
4. Changes in the Architectural Fabric of Hazor’s Lower City from the Middle Bronze to the Late Bronze
Shlomit Bechar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute of Archaeology)
5. A Royal Palace in Transition: The Functions of the Archaic Palace of Ebla in Its Historical Context
Paolo Matthiae (Sapienza University of Rome)

EB and Urbanism
6. EBI and Early Urbanism in Jordan: New Lights on a Formative Period through the Jebel al Mutawwaq Excavations
Andrea Polcaro (Perugia University)
7. The Lower Jordan Valley and the Ghôr: A Case for Urban Life in Jordan in the 3rd Millennium BCE
Zeidan Kafafi (Yarmuk University, Irbid,Jordan)
8. “Show me how you bury your people”: Dolmens, Burials, and Social Development in the Early Bronze Age
Susanne Kerner (University of Copenhagen)
9. The Political Economy of Early Bronze Age Copper Production at Khirbat Hamra Ifdan (Jordan): Implications for Southern Levantine Urbanism
Aaron Gidding (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Thomas E. Levy (University of California, San Diego)
10. The Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant: A View from Tell Halif
Joe D. Seger (Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University)

Early Bronze IV
11. Early Bronze Age IV Community in the Upper Wadi Zarqa, North Central Jordan: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Khalid Douglas (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; The Hashemite University, Jordan)
12. Early Bronze IV Settlement, Chronology, and Society along the Jordan Rift
Steven E. Falconer and Patricia L. Fall (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
13. On the Edge of the Valley: The Wadi Hammeh and the Hinterland of Pella in the EB IV Period
Melissa A. Kennedy (University of Western Australia, Perth) and Stephen J. Bourke (University of Sidney)
14. Testing the Statistical EB IV Ceramic Study: New Excavations in Area C at Khirbat Iskandar
Paul Stanley Holdorf (Khirbat Iskandar Expedition)
15. Khirbat Iskandar EB IV: The Household Architecture of Phase A in Area B
Shelby D. Green (Abilene Christian University) and Jesse C. Long, Jr.
16. Early Bronze IV Presence in Jordan: A Survey
Burton MacDonald (St. Francis Xavier University)
17. Storagejars and Storerooms in Palace G at Ebla (EBIV A): The Foodstuffs of the Last Days of Life in an Early Syrian Capital
Stefania Mazzoni (University of Florence)
18. The Early Bronze Age IV/Intermediate Bronze Age at Batrawy and Jericho: Post-urban vs. Proto-urban
Lorenzo Nigro (Sapienza University of Rome)

Ceramics
19. The Madaba Settlement Cluster and the Nature of Early Bronze Age Urbanism in the Central Highlands of Jordan
Stanley Klassen and Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)
20. A View from the North: Black Wheelmade Ware in Lebanon
Hermann Genz (American University of Beirut), Kamal Badreshany (University of Durham), and Mathilde Jean (University of Paris)
21. One Potter: Multiple Clay Body Types
Gloria London (Seattle Museum)