Institute of Archaeology
Subject: Between Collapse and Consolidation – The southern Levant at the Transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age
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Abstract: This project deals with the transitional period between the end of the Middle Bronze Age (MBIIC) and the early Late Bronze Age (LBI), ca. 1600-1400 BC in the southern Levant (modern Israel, the Palestine Territories and the Jordan Valley). This period witnessed first the destruction of major fortified cities (its cause remain heavily debated), and the subsequent consolidation of urban life at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age as well as the increasing Egyptian dominance. The aim of this project is to gain a more accurate and nuanced view of this transition, and to understand it in the wider context of the eastern Mediterranean, providing a synthesis of absolute chronology, material culture and the relation to the political history.
Presidential Stipend 2013/14
The Martin Buber Society of Fellows