Paléorient 42.2, 2016. Connections and Disconnections between the Northern and Southern Levant in the Late Prehistory and Protohistory (12th – mid-2nd mill. BC)

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. Sommaire : Articles : I. MILEVSKI, F. BOCQUENTIN and M. MOLIST, Introduction ; 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 ; 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 ; P.C. EDWARDS, The chronology and dispersal of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B cultural complex in the Levant ; F. BORRELL and H. KHALAILY, Reconstructing the last stages of bidirectional blade technology in the Levant: North and South (dis)connections ; 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 ; A. GÓMEZ BACH, W. CRUELLS and M. MOLIST, Sharing spheres of interaction in the 6th millennium cal. BC: Halaf communities and beyond ; 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 ; E. GABRIELI, Contacts between the Southern and Northern Levant in the fi rst half of the 5th millennium BC: A pottery perspective from Jordan ; 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 ; F. BOCQUENTIN, M. MOLIST and I. MILEVSKI, Connections and Disconnections in the Late Prehistory and Protohistory of the Levant: Discussion and perspectives.