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Tell Abu Al-kharaz in the Jordan Valley : The Early Bronze Age, Paperback by .... Tell Abu Al-kharaz in the Jordan Valley : The Early Bronze Age, Paperback by Austrian Academy of Sciences (COR), ISBN 3700138806, ISBN-13 9783700138808, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Synchronization of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC, an international research project, will report its findings in three volumes. Here individual researchers cover the earliest period, looking at stratigraphy, architecture, and pottery; typo-chronological conclusions about the pottery; chipped stone assemblage; the atomic absorption spectroscopy of copper-based objects; climate, fauna, and flora; and radiocarbon datings. Then follows discussion and conclusion by the project as a whole on environment, subsistence, and settlement; administration and politics; economy, exchange of goods, and communication routes; architectural features and installations; relative local, regional and inter-regional chronologies and a suggested absolute chronology; and the rise and fall of the Early Bronze Age settlements. The second volume of the series, on the Middle and Late Bronze Age, has already appeared; the third, on the Iron Age and post-iron period will conclude the series. There is no index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()