The Dawn of the Bronze Age offers a detailed archaeological account of the material culture and the pattern of settlement in the eastern Jordan valley and the desert fringes of Samaria during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I periods.

Shay Bar received his PhD in archaeology from the University of Haifa (2008). He is a researcher in the Zinman Institute and teaches in the archaeology department at this University. His current projects include the excavations of the Bronze and Iron Age sites of Tel Esur and Tel Shiqmona.