This work is the result of decades of research on the Early Bronze Age I skeletal material from the archaeological site of B b Edh-Dhr ' in Jordan. B b Edh-Dhr ' 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 pre-biblical world in the late-fourth and third millennia B.C. This definitive study by physical anthropologists...