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Discussions in response to: The Ancient Near East in Transregional Perspective. Material Culture and Exchange between Mesopotamia, the Levant and Lower Egypt from 5800 to 5200 calBC Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2020 By Katharina Streit Panelist comments and discussion by: Steven A. Rosen (Ben-Gurion University) Katharina Streit (The Austrian Academy of Sciences) Yorke Rowan (University of Chicago) Moderated by: Aaron Greener (The Albright Institute) In the late 1950s, Jacob Kaplan recognized the Wadi Rabah culture as a distinct cultural entity of the southern Levant, and suggested possible interconnections to the northern Levant, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. This volume examines Kaplan’s suggestion in detail and explores the cultural entities of northern Mesopotamia, the Levant and Egypt between ca. 5800 and 5200 cal BC, and the interactions between them. In this process, the 6th millennium BC witnessed a densely woven network of trade and cultural interactions that
