Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age

In recognition of the significant contribution that Suzanne Richard has made to the archaeology of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant, this Festschrift represents the best of scholarship in her areas of interest and publication in the field. Professor Richard is known for her work on the Early Bronze Age, especially the EB III-IV. Her first major articles (BASOR 1980; BA 1987) are still standard references in the field. More recently, she is concerned with interconnectivity, social organization in rural periods, and urban-rural transitions in the Levant in the fourth and third millennia BCE in particular. With an international cadre of leading scholars, the volume reflects recent scholarship on the nature of Bronze Age urbanism and cultural transitions at key junctures. The volume is an important contribution to the field of late 4th through the 2nd millennia BCE.

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 Ghor: 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: Posturban 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)

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.

• Edited by William G. Dever
• Edited by Jesse C. Long