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Le relazioni tra Egitto e Levante meridionale nella seconda metà del III millennio a.C. Una visione d'insieme e un esame critico delle problematiche più recenti

A recent chronological re-assessment of the southern Levantine Early Bronze IV, changing the traditional absolute dates of the period, ca. 2300/2250-2000 BC, into ca. 2500-1950/1920 BC, compels us to re-evaluate traditional synchronisms between the southern Levant (Palestine and Transjordan) and Egypt during that time-span. Moving from such new chronological proposals for Early Bronze IV in the southern Levant, the article presents a brief overview of the available iconographic, textual and archaeological evidence of Egyptian-Levantine connections for the period comprised between ca.

Before the cultural koinè. Contextualizing interculturality in the “Greater Levant” during the Late Early Bronze Age and the Early Middle Bronze Age

The relation between the socio-cultural complexes of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE is of great importance to understand the origin of the Middle Bronze Age society in the Levant.

Ebla and the South. Reconsidering inter-regional connections during Early Bronze IV

Scholarly tradition has connected the second half of the third millennium BC with the question of contacts between the northern and southern Levant suggested by the spread in the south of given elements of material culture inspired by northern prototypes.