This work is the result of decades of research on the Early Bronze Age skeletal material from the archaeological site of Bâb edh-Dhrâ' in Jordan. Bâb edh-Dhrâ' is home to one of the Near East's largest and most carefully documented collections of human skeletal material, which is one of the few sources of information about the inhabitants of this prebiblical world in the late fourth and third millennia B.C.E. This definitive study by prominent physical anthropologists is an excellent reference for archaeologists and anthropologists working in the Levant, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, as well as anyone studying ancient Near Eastern migration patterns, skeletal changes, and incidences of diseases. -- from Back Cover.