This volume of Paléorient gathers several of the contributions presented to the session A25f, “North-south Connections and Disconnections in the Prehistory and Protohistory of the Levant”, in the XVIIth Congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Burgos, 2014). It aims to contribute to a better understanding of the cultural dynamics that prevailed in the Levantine region during Late Prehistory and Protohistory on connections and disconnections in the archaeological record. New data provided by recent works on lithic and ceramic assemblages, burial customs and iconographic themes highlight the interplay between the Northern and Southern Levant through time.

ARTICLES

I. Milevski, F. Bocquentin and M. Molist
Introduction

J.J. Ibáňez, D. Ortega, D. Campos, L. Khalidi, V. Méndez and L. Teira
Developing a complex network model of obsidian exchange in the Neolithic Near East: Linear regressions, ethnographic models and archaeological data

F. Bocquentin, E. Kodas and A. Ortiz
Headless but still eloquent! Acephalous skeletons as witnesses of Pre-Pottery Neolithic North-South Levant connections and disconnections

P.C. Edwards
The chronology and dispersal of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B cultural complex in the Levant

F. Borrell and H. Khalaily
Reconstructing the last stages of bidirectional blade technology in the Levant:North and South (dis)connections

J. Vieugué, Y. Garfinkel, O. Barzilai and E.C.M. Van Den Brink
Pottery function and culinary practices of Yarmukian societies in the late 7th millennium cal. BC: First results

A. Gómez Bach, W. Cruells and M. Molist
Sharing spheres of interaction in the 6th millennium cal. BC: Halaf communities and beyond

I. Milevski, N. Getzov, E. Galili, A. Yaroshevich and L. Kolska Horwitz
Iconographic motifs from the 6th–5th millennia BC in the Levant and Mesopotamia: Clues for cultural connections and existence of an interaction sphere

E. Gabrieli
Contacts between the Southern and Northern Levant in the fi rst half of the 5th millennium BC: A pottery perspective from Jordan

P. Andreou
Acting funerary ritual in variables. Preliminary thoughts on data structure and equivalence for comparative studies of funerary ritual in the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age

I. Milevski, F. Bocquentin and M. Molist
Connections and Disconnections in the Late Prehistory and Protohistory of the Levant: Discussion and perspectives

RECENSIONS

ARTICLES

M. Benz, K. Deckers, C. Rössner, A. Alexandrovskiy, K. Pustovoytov, M. Scheeres, M. Fecher, A. Coşkyn, S. Riehl, K.W. Alt and V. Ӧzkaya
Prelude to village life. Environmental data and building traditions of the Epipalaeolithic settlement at Körtik Tepe, Southeastern Turkey

Y.H. Hilbert, V.I. Usik, C.S. Galletti, M.W. Morley, A. Parton, L. Clark-Balzan, J.-L. Schwenninger, L.P. Linnenlucke, R.G. Roberts, Z. Jacobs and J.I. Rose
Archaeological evidence for indigenous human occupation of Southern Arabia at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition: The case of al-Hatab in Dhofar, Southern Oman

A. Smith, P.J. Graham and G. Stein
Ubaid plant use at Tell Zeidan, Syria

M. Bialowarczuk
Experimental reconstruction of Late Neolithic local quartz exploitation patterns in the Arabian Gulf. New discoveries from Bahra 1, Kuwait, an Ubaid-site related site

M. Arimura and A. Suleiman†
A cultural unity in Northwestern Syria during the Neolithic. Tell Ain Dara III, a PPNB site in the Afrin Valley

A. Soltysiak, A. Wiercińska and S.K. Kozlowski
Human remains from Newrik, Iraq. An insight into living conditions and burial customs in a Pre-Pottery Neolithic village

V. Eshed and D. Nadel
Changes in burial customs from the Pre-Pottery to the Pottery Neolithic periods in the Levant: The case-study of Tel Roim West, Northern Israel

M. Heydari, H. Fazeli Nashli, E. Cortesi and M. Vidale
A surface collection at Chegerdak, a Bronze Age centre in the Jazmurian basin (South-Eastern Iran)

DROITS DE REPONSE

C. Marro, V. Bakhshaliyev and R. Berthon
A reply to G. Palumbi and C. Chataigner

G. Palumbi and C. Chataigner
Answer to C. Marro, B. Bakhshaliyev and R. Berthon

RECENSIONS

The Kura-Araxes culture from the Caucasus to Iran, Anatolia and the Levant: Between unity and diversity

The Kura-Araxes culture, named after the two main rivers of the Southern Caucasus, spread from the second half of the 4th millennium over a vast area covering the Southern Caucasus, Eastern Anatolia and North-Western Iran. In the light of recent works carried out in these regions, this volume introdu             ces new approaches and data to questions concerning the origin and expansion of this culture, by exploring elements of unity and diversity among the Kura-Araxes regional components as well as their interaction with other contemporary cultural phenomena.

Sommaire

In Memoriam
Klaus Schmidt by H.G. Gebel

ARTICLES

G. Palumbi and C. Chataigner
Introduction

S.E. Connor and E.V. Kvavadze
Environmental context of the Kura-Araxes culture

A. Sagona
Rethinking the Kura-Araxes Genesis

E. Rova
The Kura-Araxes Culture in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia: An overview

R.S. Badalyan
New data on the periodization and chronology of the Kura-Araxes culture in Armenia

P.L. Kohl and R.G. Magomedov
Early Bronze developments on the West Caspian Coastal Plain

B. Lyonnet
The Early Bronze Age in Azerbaijan in the light of recent discoveries

C. Marro, V. Bakhshaliyev and R. Berthon
On the Genesis of the Kura-Araxes phenomenon: New evidence from Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan)

G.D. Summers
The Early Trans-Caucasian Culture in Iran: Perspectives and problems

M. Frangipane
After collapse: Continuity and Disruption in the settlement by Kura-Araxes-linked pastoral groups at Arslantepe-Malatya (Turkey). New data

R. Greenberg, R. Shimelmitz and M. Iserlis
New evidence for the Anatolian origins of ‘Khirbet Kerak Ware people’ at Tel Bet Yerah (Israel), ca 2800 BC

T.C. Wilkinson
The Early Transcaucasian phenomenon in structural-systemic perspective: Cuisine, craft and economy

M. Poulmarc’h with L. Pecqueur and B. Jalilov
An overview of Kura-Araxes funerary practices in the Southern Caucasus

G. Palumbi and C. Chataigner
The Kura-Araxes Culture from the Caucasus to Iran, Anatolia and the Levant: Between unity and diversity. A synthesis