The Levant is defined as the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean, roughly between Egypt and Anatolia. The southern Levant is therefore roughly the same area as that occupied by the modern states of Israel and Jordan. These terms are used by archaeologists, to avoid taking a modern geo-political stance in a region rife with border disputes.

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  • The Levant is defined as the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean, roughly between Egypt and Anatolia. The southern Levant is therefore roughly the same area as that occupied by the modern states of Israel and Jordan. These terms are used by archaeologists, to avoid taking a modern geo-political stance in a region rife with border disputes. The archaeology of the southern Levant is generally conceived as a series of phases or stages in human cultural and evolutional development based, for the most part, on tool technology for early pre-historic, proto-historic and early historic periods. Later phases are generally associated with historical periods and are named accordingly. While there is no single, accepted sequence that all archaeologists agree upon, the basic conventions indicate a number of Stone Ages, followed by a Copper/Stone age, in turn followed by a Bronze Age. The names given to them,derived from the Greek, are also used widely for other regions. The different ages in turn are often divided up into sequential or sometimes parallel chrono-cultural facies, sometimes called “cultures” or “periods”. Sometimes their names are derived from European prehistory, at other times from local sites, often where they were first discovered.
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  • May 2008
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  • The Levant is defined as the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean, roughly between Egypt and Anatolia. The southern Levant is therefore roughly the same area as that occupied by the modern states of Israel and Jordan. These terms are used by archaeologists, to avoid taking a modern geo-political stance in a region rife with border disputes.
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  • Southern Levant
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