Connections and Disconnections between the Northern and Southern Levant

in the Late Prehistory and Protohistory (12th – mid-2nd mill. BC)

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This volume of Paléorient gathers several of the contributions presented to the session A25f, "North-south Connections

and Disconnections in the Prehistory and Protohistory of the Levant', in the XVIIth Congress of the International Union

for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Burgos, 2014). It aims to contribute to a better understanding of the cultural

dynamics that prevailed in the Levantine region during Late Prehistory and Protohistory on connections and disconnections

in the archaeological record. New data provided by recent works on lithic and ceramic assemblages, burial customs and

iconographic themes highlight the interplay between the Northern and the Southern Levant through time.

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Articles

I. MILEVSKI, F. BOCQUENTIN and M. MOLIST

Introduction .................................................................................................... 5-7

J.J. IBÁÑEZ, D. ORTEGA, D. CAMPOS, L. KHALIDI, V. MÉNDEZ and L. TEIRA

Developing a complex network model of obsidian exchange in the Neolithic Near East:

Linear regressions, ethnographic models and archaeological data ....................... 9-32

F. BOCQUENTIN, E. KODAS and A. ORTIZ

Headless but still eloquent! Acephalous skeletons as witnesses of Pre-Pottery Neolithic North-South Levant

connections and disconnections ...................................................................... 33-52

P.C. EDWARDS

The chronology and dispersal of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B cultural complex in the Levant ....53-72

F. BORRELL and H. KHALAILY

Reconstructing the last stages of bidirectional blade technology in the Levant:

North and South (dis)connections .................................................................... 73-95

J. VIEUGUÉ, Y. GARFINKEL, O. BARZILAI and E.C.M. VAN DEN BRINK

Pottery function and culinary practices of Yarmukian societies in the late 7th millennium cal. BC:

First results .................................................................................................. 97-115

A. GÓMEZ BACH, W. CRUELLS and M. MOLIST

Sharing spheres of interaction in the 6th millennium cal. BC: Halaf communities and beyond ... 117-133

I. MILEVSKI, N. GETZOV, E. GALILI, A. YAROSHEVICH and L. KOLSKA HORWITZ

Iconographic motifs from the 6th–5th millennia BC in the Levant and Mesopotamia:

Clues for cultural connections and existence of an interaction sphere ................. 135-149

E. GABRIELI

Contacts between the Southern and Northern Levant in the fi rst half of the 5th millennium BC:

A pottery perspective from Jordan ................................................................... 151-184

P. ANDREOU

Acting funerary ritual in variables. Preliminary thoughts on data structure and equivalence

for comparative studies of funerary ritual in the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age ..... 185-201

F. BOCQUENTIN, M. MOLIST and I. MILEVSKI

Connections and Disconnections in the Late Prehistory and Protohistory of the Levant:

Discussion and perspectives ............................................................................ 203-208

Recensions .................................................................................................. 209-215