Map shows the Levant region (shaded in orange), which is the western part of the overall Fertile Crescent region (shaded in yellow); the study areas in Israel and Crete are in dashed gray boxes.

Bennett, 1971-1980 OPEN ACCESS 2002 Crossing the Rift: Resources, Settlements Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah OPEN ACCESS 2006 Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic OPEN ACCESS 2011 The ...

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 ...