Neither Diffusion of Ideas nor Simple Trade of Objects: The Moving of Specialized Canaanean Blade Knappers during the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant

Mobility has been a central theme in the study of Near Eastern archaeology, and the movement of people and the displacement of objects have been used to reconstruct proto-and historical processes. Although paradigms have changed, migration of population, diffusion of technologies and trade of artifacts are still the subject of numerous debates interrogating of the methodological and interpretative concepts which can help archaeologists to deal with these phenomena (e. g., Kiriatzi and Knappett 2016). In this paper, the adoption of the Canaanean blades in the Southern Levant and the organization of their production/consumption system is considered in order to reflect