Abstract
Recent excavations at Kataret es-Samra in the eastern Jordan Valley have produced sherds of a distinctive, polychromatic pottery that appear to date to the end of the fourth millennium B. C., i. e., the interface between the Chalcolithic period and the Early Bronze/Proto-Urban Age. Such decorative pottery is exceptional at this time in the Jordan Valley and finds its closest parallels in Phases D and E of the Syrian Amuq Plain and other cultures well to the north of Kataret es-Samra. This article describes the pottery, defines its stratigraphical placement, and attempts to place it within its own cultural horizon by examining comparanda from the Jordan Valley, coastal Syria, and southeastern Anatolia.
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