Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: current models of levantine urbanization; archaeological regions revisited; shifting boundaries - the spatial expression of social change; a case study - the Hula Valley. Part 2 The Hula Valley landscape: definition of boundaries; the natural environment; human ecology in the Hula Valley - potentials and constraints. Part 3 The stratigraphic-chronological framework - key sites of the Hula Valley, early bronze I-middle bronze 1; sites; pottery assemblages; survey results - gazetter of early bronze I-middle bronze I sites in the Hula Valley. Part 4 Settlement patterns - a chronological survey: early bronze I; early bronze II; early bronze III; Dolmens - early bronze III/intermediate bronze age; intermediate bronze age; middle bronze I. Part 5 Patterns of settlement and social change in the Hula Valley and their implications for the study of early urban cultures in the southern levant: early bronze I - the demise of self-sustaining village settlement; early bronze II - the establishment of an integrated urban system; early bronze III -the zenith and decline of urbanism; intermediate bronze age - at the margins of the Syrian core; middle bronze I - reurbanization. Part 6 Conclusion - the ebb and flow of early urbanism in the levant.

About the Author

Raphael Greenberg is a Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.