Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Iron Age (8300 BCE–600 BCE)·Neolithic / Canaanite·🇮🇱 Jezreel Valley, Israel
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About Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures
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. Valley tell with PPN lime plaster floors and EB fortification walls at spring of Harod. PPNA structures with plastered floors, EB II-III walled town with apsidal houses.
Why it mattersKey Levantine tell with multi-period stratigraphy informing chronology of the Jezreel Valley
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Stratigraphic sequence
- 02Biblical identification debated
Theories
- 01Border fortress model
- 02Trade route control
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 8300 BCE
- Period
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Iron Age (8300 BCE–600 BCE)
- Culture
- Neolithic / Canaanite
- Purpose
- Valley tell with PPN lime plaster floors and EB fortification walls at spring of Harod
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 8300 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1925 CE
Woolley/Petrie survey
On the ground
Structures & features
32.5590° N · 35.3570° E · -20 m · 3 mapped features
- Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures — Summit CitadelcitadelCitadel or summit fort on tell32.5591° N · 35.3571° E
- Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures — Glacis and Wall CircuitglacisOuter fortification glacis32.5588° N · 35.3571° E
- Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures — Lower Town / Cemeterylower townExtension settlement or cemetery32.5594° N · 35.3568° E
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