Early Bronze Age, Jordan, mortuary practices (Other Keyword)
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Searching for Complexity: Initial statistical analysis of mortuary material in shaft tombs from the Early Bronze Age I (c. 3500-3000 BC) Bab adh-Dhra`, Jordan (2016)
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The southern Leventine Early Bronze Age (EB) I-III is characterized by the development of fortification systems, intensification of agricultural and pastoral production, innovative water management, irrigation technology, population aggregation, and increasing regionalized expression of EB material culture. Due to these characteristics, various researchers have interpreted this society as the region's earliest urban culture, a chiefdom, a city state, or a secondary state. Recent scholars have...