The EB–MB transition in the Southern Levant. Contacts, connectivity and transformations
In the past, mass migrations have been regarded as the driving force of cultural transformations and sociopolitical
changes in the southern Levant between the Early and Middle Bronze Ages. In later scholarship,
interpretation centring on endogenous developments have been largely favoured, along with evidence for the
introduction of new elements resulting from the re-elaboration of foreign features. While clues for substantial
migrations can be difficult to find in the archaeological evidence from the region dating from Early Bronze