Southern Levant: Landscape archaeology, social transformations in Early Bronze Age

Southern Levant: Landscape archaeology, social transformations in Early Bronze Age

AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social organisation, settlement character and economy.  Settlements became walled, megalithic funerary monuments were built and technological advancement took place.  Such changes generally have been explained in the context of the emergence within the region of a number of regional city-states, each centred upon a walled “town”, said British scholar G…