The Ebla Region from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age: Reading Socio-Cultural Changes in Settlement Patterns and Material Culture

This paper presents the results of an integrated study of excavation and survey data kept in the Archive of the Italian Archaeological Expedition to Ebla at the Sapienza University of Rome. Excavations at Ebla and other multi-period sites in its region have allowed for a periodization and a general outline of the local developmental trajectory during these periods. This may provide the chronological and conceptual frameworks to re-analyse data from past surveys in the Ebla region and incorporate them into regional narratives on the time span from the mid-3rd to the early 2nd millennium BC.