Flint Trade in the Protohistoric Levant offers an in-depth case study of the production and
exchange of tabular scrapers. Crossing cultural and ecological boundaries and traded from …

The authors describe the discovery of a Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic basalt axe factory in the
Manasseh Hills in Israel and suggest it had a primary role in the region for the production of …

A two-storey updraft ceramic kiln of mudbrick and clay, dated by associated ceramic finds to
the Early Bronze (EB) IB period, and by radiocarbon dating to the end of the 4th millennium …

The central coastal plain and adjacent Shephelah during the late Early Bronze Age I through
Early Bronze III periods has been extensively explored and furnishes us with …

The site of El-Maghar, located in the central coastal plain of Israel was an important
settlement during the EBI-EBII, between the late 4th-3rd millennia BCE. During the EBI …

The Early Bronze Age is considered to be the period when complex and hierarchical
societies first developed in the southern Levant. The appearance of specialization and …

Khirbat Abu Ḥamid (Shoham North): An Early Bronze Age IB Village on the Eve of Urbanization
in the Lod Valley Page 1 ‘Atiqot 91, 2018 KHIRBAT ABU ḤAMID (SHOHAM NORTH): AN …

Egyptian presence in the Southern Levant during the late fourth millennium BCE (Early
Bronze Age IB, henceforward EB IB), centered in southwestern Israel, is an issue thoroughly …

The extensive excavations at Ashqelon Barne 'a produced a large groundstone assemblage
(n= 371) originating primarily in the three main EB I strata (IV–II) at the site. Until the 1990s …

The current excavation was conducted in Area M (Section 3), which extends across the
southwestern part of the proto-historic site (Fig. 2; Elad and Paz 2018, and see references …