🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Abu Gosh
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic (7600–5500 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNB → Yarmoukian (Pottery Neolithic)
Judean Hills PPNB ridge village with goat domestication ancient DNA archive.
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🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic (7600–5500 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNB → Yarmoukian (Pottery Neolithic)
Judean Hills PPNB ridge village with goat domestication ancient DNA archive.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Medieval · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Dolmen Avenue Mideast 56 — Israel Region 8 in Israel Region 8, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
MB II–LB I (c.1850–1550 BCE) · Canaanite MB II with Aegean influence → Phoenician
Palatial MB II Canaanite centre (32 ha) with Minoan-style painted plaster palace (c.1850–1550 BCE), excavated by Aharon...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 634 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
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.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Middle Bronze Age to Roman (2000 BCE–200 CE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Sea Peoples (Sikils)
Tel Dor — Phoenician Port in Carmel Coast, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age to Roman (2000 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Sea Peoples (Sikils).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian
Tel Keisan — Acco Plain in Galilee coastal plain, Israel is a Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) · Canaanite / Sea Peoples
Tel Zeror — Sharon Plain in Sharon Plain, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Sea Peoples.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 992 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 82 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Chalcolithic through Byzantine (c.5000 BCE–749 CE); EBA, MB–LB Canaanite/Egyptian, Iron I–II, Hellenistic-Roman-Byzantine · Chalcolithic–EBA Canaanite → New Kingdom Egyptian garrison → Israelite → Decapolis (Scythopolis)
Egyptian garrison tell (1450–1130 BCE) + EBA–Byzantine Beth Shean — 11 cities with Mekal temple and 749 CE earthquake debris (c.5000 BCE–749 CE).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
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.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
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).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Crusader (3500 BCE–1260 CE) · Canaanite / Israelite / Crusader
Tel Yoqne'am — Jokneam in Carmel foothills, Israel is a Early Bronze Age to Crusader (3500 BCE–1260 CE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Israelite / Crusader.
🇮🇱 Israel · Buried city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Loess Buried Camp East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Iron Age (8300 BCE–600 BCE) · Neolithic / Canaanite
Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures in Jezreel Valley, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Iron Age (8300 BCE–600 BCE) tell attributed to Neolithic / Canaanite.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean (c.780 ka) · Acheulean Homo erectus/heidelbergensis
Acheulean lakeside camp (c.780,000 BCE) on the paleo-Hula shore, earliest habitations with controlled fire. Excavated by...
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Iron IIB–C (c.700–600 BCE) · Edomite (with Judean/ Arabian influence)
Iron II Edomite open-air shrine (c.700–600 BCE) on a hilltop in the Negev, excavated by Itzhaq Beit-Arieh. Single-phase...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Canaanite to Iron Age (3500–500 BCE) · Canaanite
Tel Gezer — Shefela in Central District, Shefela, Israel is a Canaanite to Iron Age (3500–500 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 136 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 137 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 177 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 332 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 383 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.