1 A View from the North: Black Wheelmade Ware in Lebanon Hermann Genz, Kamal Badreshany, and Mathilde Jean Keywords: Lebanon, Early Bronze Age IV, Black Wheelmade ware, Petrography, Geochemical Analysis Abstract Ever since its first discovery at Megiddo in the 1930s, Black Wheelmade ware has sparked the interest of researchers, especially regarding its origin. Most of the research so far has focused on northern Palestine. Lebanon has occasionally been mentioned as a possible region of manufacture, but so far without providing any detailed evidence. In this article, we discuss the occurrence of Black Wheelmade ware in Lebanon and provide the results of the first petrographic and geochemical data from this region. Introduction In the Southern Levant, the transition from the Early Bronze Age III to the Early Bronze Age IV, now dated around 2500 BCE according to recent radiocarbon dates (Regev et al. 2012; Höflmayer et al. 2014), is accompanied by marked changes. Almost all urban settlements of the Early Bronze Age II-III disappear in the Early Bronze Age IV or shrink to the size of villages (Mazar 1990; Palumbo 1990; Dever 1995; Mazar 2006), with the exception of Khirbet Iskander in Southern Jordan, explored by S. Richard and her collaborators since 1980 (Richard et al. 2010). Marked changes are also noticeable in the ceramic repertoire. Large platters as well as jars and pithoi with combed surfaces dominate the Early Bronze Age II-III assemblages, while drinking vessels are hardly attested (Genz 2002; Bunimovitz and Greenberg 2004). In the Early