Cohen/Peripheral Concerns, 4. The Middle Bronze Age

This chapter outlines the data relating to settlement and urban development in the Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant, with attention to long term and broad scale patterns. This analysis includes an examination and discussion of the evidence for Egyptian activity in the southern Levant during the Middle Bronze Age, followed by an evaluation of the ways in which the relationship with a non-intrusive core region affected the nature and course of urban development in the Middle Bronze Age southern Levant.