AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social ... the context of the emergence within the region of a number of regional city-states ...

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...

A study led by Prof. Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most ...

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.

Genomes from people living in the area of Israel and Jordan, the so-called southern Levant region, showed distinct differences to those of people inhabiting the Zagros Mountains. “There has been a ...

AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social organisation ... have been explained in the context of the emergence within the region of a number ...