Excavations at the Early Bronze IV sites of Jebel Qa'aqir and Be'er Resisim / / by William G. Dever.

• Superior document: Studies in the archaeology and history of the Levant ; 6
• Author: Dever, William G.
• Place / Publishing House: Winona Lake, Indiana : : Eisenbrauns,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
• Notes: "Summary of salvage excavations in EB IV cemeteries at Jebel Qa'aqir and Be'er Resisim--Provided by the publisher.

This volume is the final report of excavations carried out in the Hebron hills and the Negev desert in 1967-1980 on behalf of Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and the University of Arizona. They were pioneering, multidisciplinary projects that helped to illuminate what was then a poorly known “Dark Age” in the cultural history of ancient Palestine, a nonurban interlude of pastoral nomadic movements over several centuries (ca. 2400–2000 B.C.E.) between the great urban civilizations of the early Bronze Ages. Eighteen appendixes by specialists in many disciplines analyze all aspects of material culture and human and animal remains. A history of previous scholarship and a synthesis of the EB IV period in both Israel and Jordan conclude the volume, which will be a landmark study for many years.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Site and the Excavations -- The Cemeteries -- The Occupied Caves -- The Cairns -- The Boundary Walls and Kiln E2026 -- Dolmen 1007 and the Area G Bamah -- Recent Scholarship and Jebel Qa‘aqir -- The Unique Contributions of Jebel Qa‘aqir -- The Site -- The Central Negev Highlands Project -- The Settlement at Be’er Resisim -- Village Planning at Be’er Resisim -- Off-site Structures -- Be’er Resisim in the Context of the EB IV Settlements of the Negev -- The Negev-Transjordanian Connection -- The Economic Basis of the Negev EB IV Settlements -- Conclusion -- Human Skeletal Remains from Jebel Qa‘aqir by Patricia Smith -- Faunal Remains From Jebel Qa‘aqir by Liora Kolska Horwitz -- Typological and Technological Comparisons of Late Third Millennium BCE Metal Implements from Palestine by William G. Dever and John F. Merkel -- Manufacturing Technique of Late Third Millennium BCE Flat-bottomed Pots by Gloria London -- Purchased Pottery and Copper Objects -- Preliminary Report of the Environmental Survey by Ran Gerson -- Vegetation by Avinoam Danin -- Archaeobotanical Aspects–Palynology by James R. Caldwell -- Analysis of Wood Charcoal by Peter J. Warnock -- The Faunal Remains From Be’er Resisim by Dalia Hakker-Orion -- Human Skeletal Remains by Yossi Nagar -- The Ground Stone Artifacts from Be’er Resisim by Jennie R. Ebeling -- The Chipped Stone Assemblage From Be'er Resisim-A Final Report by Steve Rosen and Jacob Vardi -- A Bar Ingot From Be’er Resisim by Tamara S. Wheeler -- The Be’er Resisim Regional Survey by Jerome B. Schaefer -- Har Resisim 126-An Ephemeral Early Bronze Age Site by Barry M. Gittlen -- Bibliography by Avinoam Danin.