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

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...

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Superior document:Studies in the archaeology and history of the Levant ; 6
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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.
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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.