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Domestic Architecture As A Chronological Criterion For Early Bronze Age Palestine, Dorothea Ann Blow

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

In recent years archaeological investigators have become increasingly interested in the study of the Proto-Urban and Early Bronze Ages in Palestine. These periods have been relatively neglected in the history of excavating largely due to the fact that on the most important sites the levels of these periods lie buried beneath the later accumulation of the tells.

At sites where Early Bronze levels have been uncovered, little attention has been given to the domestic architecture, mostly due to the archaeologist’s predisposition to unearth temple complexes and public buildings in the acropolis area. The excavator’s have also been concerned to examine …