The talk will focus on megalithic phenomena of the southern Levant between the 4th-3rd millennia BC, mostly concentrated along the Jordan Valley rift. I will discuss dolmens, menhirs, tumuli and above all, the mysterious and unique site of Rujm el-Hiri, the most impressive monument in the southern Levant. The talk will survey, besides the chronology and architecture of the monuments, some theoretical issues related to their phenomenology, their meaning and their possible relation to the emerging urbanization of the southern Levant.{[
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Dr Yitzhak Paz
Dr Yitzhak Paz a senior researcher in the Israel Antiquities Authority. i expertise in the proto-history of the Southern Levant, (4th-3rd millennia BC) mainly on the Early Bronze Age.i also expertise in megalithic phenomena between the 5th-3rd millennia BC, i teach in Israeli Academy.i directed many important and recently a mega scale excavations of a 65 ha city dated to the late 4th millennium BC on behalf of the IAA.i co-direct an excavation project with a Japanese expedition at Tel Rekhesh, Israel.