Excavations at the Early Bronze IV Sites of Jebel Qa'aqir and Be'er Resisim (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781575069470)

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.

Author: William G. Dever
ISBN-10: 1575069474
ISBN-13: 9781575069470
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2014
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.69w x 0.80d