Two notes on early bronze age urbanization and urbanism

This article deals with the two transition periods within the Early Bronze Age, both of which are of crucial importance for the study of the early history of Palestine. The first - the passage from the EB Ib to the EB II - is closely related to the first urbanization in the Levant. The second - the transition from the EB II to the EB III - is associated with the much-discussed issues of the origin of the EB III population and possible disturbances at the end of the EB II, as well as the general topic of the territorial history of Canaan in the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C.E.