Melissa Kennedy is a Research Associate at the University of Western Australia for the Project Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (AAKSAU).

• Introduction: A Land In-Between – The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age by Melissa A. Kennedy 1. Northern Levantine Spheres of Interaction: The Role of the ’Amuq Plain in the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age by Lynn Welton2. The Origin of Caliciform Ware in Inland Northern Syria During the Mid-Third Millennium BC: A View from Tell Mardikh/Ebla and Hama by Agnese Vacca3. Ebla in the Third Millennium BC: Architecture and Urban Planning by Frances Pinnock4. A Matter of Style: Ceramic Evidence of Contacts Between the Orontes Valley and the Southern Levant During the Mid–Late Third Millennium BC by Marta D’Andrea5. Militarisation and the Changing Socio-Political Landscape of the Northern Levant in the Early Bronze Age IVB by Melissa A. Kennedy6. Evolutions of Pottery Production Over a Millennium: Petrographic Analysis of the EB Ceramic Assemblage from Tell Arqa by Mathilde Jean7. The 1968 Survey in the Beqa‘ of Lebanon and Its Relevance to the Archaeology of the Central Levant Ca. 2500–2000/1900 BC by Kay Prag8. Sequence, Chronology and Culture at Tell Nebi Mend in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages by Stephen J. BourkeAbout the contributorsIndex