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🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Chalcolithic through Ottoman; EBA III, MB–LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Philistine/Judahite, Crusader–Mamluk · EBA Canaanite → Philistine Pentapolis (Sea Peoples) → Judahite fortress → Crusader
40 ha Philistine pentapolis capital — EBA to Crusader tell with Gath Siege Trench and Goliath inscription (c.5000 BCE–present).
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Late Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.1550–586 BCE); LB temple, Iron I Philistine, Judahite 10th–7th c. · LB Canaanite → Iron I Philistine → Iron II Judahite frontier town
Biblical Timnah (Samson) — 5 ha Philistine–Judahite border town with Iron II casemate and olive press quarter (1550–586 BCE).
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Early Bronze through Iron Age and Byzantine (c.3500 BCE–600 CE); LB–Iron I–II Judahite fortress 8th–6th c. BCE · EBA–LB Canaanite → Judahite fortress (Hezekiah–Zedekiah) → Babylonian destruction → Persian–Byzantine
Judahite Shfela fortress (18 ha) with Sennacherib 701 BCE and 588 BCE Babylonian destructions — Lachish letter Azekah (Iron II).
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Late Chalcolithic through EB III–MBA (c.3500–2200 BCE); Late Chalcolithic, EB Ia–III Egyptian contact · Ghassulian → EBA I–III Canaanite urban with Naqada IIIb Egyptian colony (1st Dynasty)
25 ha EBA fortified town with Egyptian Colony (Dynasty 0–1) and EB IB wall — S. Yeivin gateway tell to Hebron hills.
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Neolithic through Persian–Hellenistic (c.5000 BCE–332 BCE); EBA, MB–LB Canaanite, Iron I–II, Persian · Chalcolithic–EBA Canaanite → LB Canaanite → Iron I Philistine/Judahite → Persian province
1890 stratigraphic excavation origin — 12-m Petrie tell with EBA–Persian sequence (Neolithic–Iron) founding ceramic seriation.
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Early Bronze Age II–III (c.3000–2350 BCE) with MB II and Iron I–II reuse · EBA III Canaanite urban (Proto-Canaanite) — Jordan Valley city-state network
16 ha EBA III walled palace-city (2700–2350 BCE) with Palace B2 (6000 m²) — largest EBA town in Israel (Miroschedji).
