 Well, good morning to everyone again. And first, I want to thank the organizer for this very intriguing workshop. And I want to say that this is a very preliminary representation of some of the first suggestions that I have, just thinking about the connection that the Mediterranean can create in a very specific period. In fact, the Mediterranean sea now and in the past represents a strength of connections and interactions. People who lived close to the shoreline absorbed the constant flow of ideas at different levels. In the present paper, I selected one case study to deep analyze the implication of maritime contact, sorry, played during a specific period and region. The case study I selected is the early Bronze Age in South-Elevant. During this period, the area underwent to a parabolic development of the urban society. In fact, at the beginning of the early Bronze Age I period, around 3700 BC, the process of urbanization took place all over the region. And it lasted at the middle of the third millennium BC, when the general retraction of the urbanization began and went to an end only at the beginning of the second millennium BC in a period called early Bronze Age I first. Nowadays, it is generally accepted that the causes of such process have to be found mainly inside the society under study. Nevertheless, it is interesting to look also at the several impulses that this society received from the neighboring regions. This is the subject of several studies that have taken into consideration the different regions and periods. The contacts between the Levant and Egypt represent a well-debated subject. In fact, in the first imported elements found in Egypt are dated to the very beginning of the third millennium BC, attributed to the Calculative Horizon and are mainly related to the circulation of copper objects. Here, I put also images of some probably Celtic figurines that can be the evidence of this type of contacts, also in a symbolic way. During the early Bronze Age I, new economic impulses created new trade roads for the first time. It is possible to speak about a maritime connection. The coastal sites along the shorelines are now characterized by the presence of imported elements, among which there are tabular scraper, pottery vessels related to consumption and luxury goods. This new trade road along the shore continued developing during the EB-2 and the beginning of the EB-3, only at the beginning of the EB-4 when the urban development in southern Levant underwent an interruption. Also, the evidences of contact between the two regions seems to interrupt. At the same time, new interconnection now linked the Egypt with the Lebanese and Syrian coast. The aim of the present research is to look at the evidences of connection between coastal sites in a wider region, trying to define nature of maritime connection so that characterize the eastern Mediterranean Sea during the 1st and 3rd millennium BC. In the present paper, I decided to focus the attention on pottery because I believe that the creation and diffusion of ceramic vessels provide information regarding three aspects of the social life. On the one hand, the quantitative and special analysis of shapes indicates social practices of food behave from the storing to cooking and consuming of solid and liquids. Secondly, the recurrence of specific decorations or styles gives information regarding the fashion and the preferences expressed by people. Finally, the sharing of particular ways of doing in a wider area strongly determines the circulation of shared working practices. For this preliminary analysis, some case studies have been taken into consideration. Looking at the link between southern Levant and Egypt, the first is important to remember that the new accurate C14 analysis in both regions all the more secure chronological correlation between the two. As we have seen, the connection between these two regions is strong since the 1st millennium BC. Several imported vessels, from the delta to the Levantine coast and the Tversa, testified by petrographic as well as autoptic analysis. In some cases, the presence of proper Egyptian colonies dated back to the EB1A have been proposed by several scholars. So focusing on southern Levant, Brown distinguished between imported ceramic objects and Egyptianized objects, which means Egyptian morphology fashion of extremely coarse fabric with a significant quantity of vegetal inclusions. Among the imported vessels, he mentioned the fine ware ceramic bottles and cylindrical vessels, the wine jars, the lentiloid-shaped bottles, and the baking bowls. These types of vessels are particularly common in a lot of sites located along the southern Levant shoreline, such as Telerani and Bezor and Amazia. The Egyptianized objects are baking trays, like bread molds, lodges, bowls, granary jars. Brown suggested annihilotic foodways associated with at least some elements of the late EB1 population in southern Levant. And these ideas supported also by some roulette with Egyptian style. Looking at the type of imported vessels, most of which are small bottles, it is also possible to suggest a link with exchange of oils or fine exotic perfumes imported from Egypt, while food production is more related to locally produced vessels with Egyptian fashion. Also Ashkelon returned evidences of Egyptianized objects locally made and Egyptian-imported objects. Moreover, there are evidences of Nile perch and Nelotic shells as well as traces of Buddha from Lebanon that testify the presence of a net of commercial interaction related to this site. With about Egypt and Egyptian connection, looking at the materials from Buddha in the Delta region, Mazinska recognized a typical southern Levantan pottery dated to the late Arcolytic and EB1. In particular, thin wood pottery with sand tamper with painted or impressed decoration was found dated to Buddha's faith, first A, rather corresponding to Levantan late Arcolytic faith. This repertoire can be considered of southern Levantan region, o's for fabric, form, and decoration. During the following faiths I, B, and II, dated to the EB1 in southern Levant, locally made vessels with stylistic link and mixture of organic tamper became increasingly common while the use of turning devices typical for the Levantan production decreased. This development of Buddha Levantan pottery was interpreted by Falting in 2002 with the idea of Levantan immigrant groups that arrived at Buddha during the final phase of the late Arcolytic period and gradually developed a form of adaptation visible to the production of hybrid ceramic vessels. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that the range of shapes changed between the two periods. In fact, the Buddha first A Levantan shapes are represented by boo-shaped bows, fenestrated bows, and the typical pea crust rim. They indicate a particular attention on the morphology. On the contrary, during the first B, second faith in Buddha, the Levantan pottery is represented by old-mouse jar, stored jars with white-painted vents, jars with cylindrical neck, simple rim, and oval body, with cream-colored surface and quartz tamper made with imported clay, as demonstrated by petrographic analysis. Flat bases of medium-sized jar with crushed goods as tamper. Moreover, handles and knobs typical of jars are also tested. Similar range of shapes is known also from the site of Mahadi, Eliopolis, and Minshat. Such a new range of shapes testify in units that have to be associated to exchange of goods. For this reason, it is difficult to believe that the same group of people that arrived at the very end of the late Calculated changed the random shapes that remember the origin. It is more probable that the pottery vessels of the vessels dated to the first A-phase at Buddha represents imported goods related to exchange of exotic style, prove the possible absence of a group of people that moved from the social Levant to Delta. To understand what happened during the EB-1, relevant is the petrographic analysis conducted by Para on a white sample from Buddha. Among others, she recognized a local pottery production with southern Levantine morphology, tampered with some elements that make the color of the fabric similar to that of the Levantine vessels, creamy and orange. Moreover, five samples have proved to be karnanite imports, being made with calcareous clay and tampered with well-sorted sand quartz and calcite. The presence of crushed limestone and calcite as tampered in Nile clay is also attested in Maadi and Hediopolis. The change in the way of production of some specific jars should be interpreted with particular needs. This evidence suggests the presence of a group of so-called immigrants from the South Early Levant that moved to the Delta and continue to produce vessels, and in particular jars, with their technical knowledge, even if they found easier to use the local clay. About Lebanon, during the early Bronze Age I, the archaeological evidence is dated to the first sensor, millennium BC, or Scanti, and scattered in the archaeological deposes, usually covered by impressive monumental architecture dated to the later period. Nevertheless, EB occupational levels are attested at Sidon, Tel Fadus Paravida, Biblos and Tel Arca. In these sites, the pottery repertoire shows a strong link between this area and South Early Levant time cost. In some cases, also Egyptian ceramic shares can provide information regarding the extension of Egyptian influence along the shoreline. Now, looking at the following stage of the early Bronze Age II and III, I decided to focus on a particular case study that is a so-called metallic combat wear. This production is well described by the recent work related to the Arcaine project in the First International series related to pottery. As highlighted by Thelman Esouda, the definition of Levantine combat wear is applied to a wide repertoire of medium-sized jars high-fired, characterized by an intense combing of the wall's surface. It is generally accepted that this wear was produced exclusively in the coastal area of the Levant and had a limited diffusion northward in the Amuk regions, as well as in the hinterland of Syria. Associated materials were found also in the elite tombs from the 4th and 6th dynasties. From a chronological point of view, this wear is attributed to the Edechu III context, where the end dated circa during the 2500 BC by the new C14 calibrated dates in South Early Levant. Unfortunately, the lack of petrographic analysis impacts the determination of the fabric, the origin of the clay, and the nature of the temper. Nevertheless, the accurate typological distinction proposed for the Arcaine project is worthy of note. It is based on both morphology of the vessels, way of combing, and capacity. The results show the presence of three distinct groups located in Egypt, South Early Levant, and North Early Levant. Strong similarity in the fashion of the vessels and their common function as storage and transportation vessels from solid food and liquids testify exchanges of idea of the type related to the same function. The differences in the way of production can be understood in a local organization of the manufacturer to conclude and summarize the data here described. Again, I want to highlight the very preliminary character of this type of analysis. The attention on pottery production can help in better define the different ways of interconnection between neighboring as well as distant regions. The contact between the Mediterranean coast during the war served millennium BC are proved by the presence of strong parallels that can be found in the pottery repertoire. Nevertheless, the multiple character of such parallels suggests a high variety of connections and a more complicated net of interrelation between people and how they lived along the eastern Mediterranean coast. I want to say that probably more attention and more dated in the whole China para-toir of the vessel of the ceramic production can also provide new and interesting data, especially in the way the pottery shaped the vessel that it would be, from my opinion, the next step that we have to consider. And thank you for your attention. Thank you. Thank you.