The Intermediate Bronze Age follows the breakdown of urban society and a return to a more egalitarian, rural lifestyle. Recent radiocarbon dating present a new chronology for the end of the 3rd millennium BCE extending the span of the IBA over a period of 500 years in the Southern Levant. The aim of this course is to reevaluate the Intermediate Bronze Age from an archaeological perspective of regional material culture. During this course we will learn about regional domestic and mortuary related aspects of life and settlement patterns with emphasis on the social-economic and political structure of the population.