›Tracing transformations‹ explores the history and archaeology of the late Middle and early Late Bronze Age in the southern Levant. This period saw the demise of the Middle Bronze Age city-states, the end of the Hyksos Empire in Egypt, and the rising interest and…

Ein el-Jarba (Israel) is an Early Chalcolithic settlement dating to the 6th millennium BC. Excavations conducted between 2013 and 2016 uncovered domestic architecture, burials, a rich assemblage of ceramic and lithic industry of the Wadi Rabah culture. Imported…

From 1897 until 1908 Ernst Sellin was Professor of Biblical Archaeology in Vienna and carried out excavations at first at Tell Ta’anakh, later also in Jericho and Sichem. For this research, he was able to attract public funding as well as private sponsors. ›Vienna…

At the end of the 4th millennium BC, the first urban centres emerged in the Southern Levant, while at the same time the Egyptian state developed in the Nile Valley. The following period (Early Bronze Age or Old Kingdom) was characterised by close trade relations…

Culture of Defeat examines the impact on, and responses by, the defeated parties in the aftermath of military conquest, as recorded in written sources and observed in the archaeological record. By tracing political, socio-demographic, economic and cultural…

This pilot study investigates the potential for direct radiocarbon (14C) dating of straw-tempered Egyptian and Egyptian-style pottery that was locally produced or imported into the southern Levant during the Early and Late Bronze Ages. Since pottery is a dominant…

TurtleChron aims to provide the proof of concept for a growth increment pattern chronology in tortoise carapaces, which could provide an unexplored climate and isotope archive independent of dendrochronology.