See, for example, Suzanne Richard, “The Early Bronze Age: The Rise and Collapse of Urbanism,” Biblical Archaeologist 50, 1 (March, 1987), pp. 22–43 and A. Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 10,000–586 B.C.E. (New York: Doubleday, 1990), pp. 108–144.