The religious complexes of Megiddo and Khirbet ez-Zeraqon and the Early Bronze Age interregional connectivity
The southern Levantine tradition of cult buildings from Early Bronze I to Early Bronze III is represented
mainly by simple broad-room temples with a central row of pillar bases, a layout derived directly from the
local Chalcolithic traditions. However, at Tell el-Mutesellim/Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley, and Khirbet
ez-Zeraqon in the northern Transjordanian plateau, two different types of temples were discovered, which
are often conflated in the category of broad-room temples in antis. In contrast, we argue that they belong to