This volume examines in detail the distinct cultural entity of the Wadi Rabah culture in the
southern Levant and its interconnections and interactions to the cultural entities of northern
Levant northern Mesopotamia and Egypt between ca. 5800 and 5200 cal BC. Previously unnoticed
parallels in material culture and cultural practice are analyzed systematically and it is
proposed that the center of the transregional cultural entity that influenced the southern
Levant lays in the northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia.
