Pots and people? Insights into overlooked connections between western Anatolia and the coast of Lebanon in the second half of the third millennium BCE

The article offers a re-evaluation of the ceramic assemblages from the coast of Lebanon between ca. 2600 and 2000 BCE, arguing that certain vessel shapes betray connections with the ceramic traditions and drinking behaviours attested in the coeval western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean in the same timespan. It discusses human residential mobility and interregional connectivity for commercial enterprises as mechanisms mirrored by the transformation visible in the material culture.