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Introduction: Migrating Technologies at the Cusp of the Early Bronze Age III

Abstract Khirbet Kerak Ware has long been a magnet to students of late Levantine prehistory, offering insights into the long-distance connections at the edges of the Fertile Crescent. Despite a long history of study, the basic issues at stake—how technologies migrate and did the people who employed them migrate as well—remain unresolved. The approaches taken in a series of new studies published in this issue are introduced.