The Earliest Occupation at Tel Bet Yerah. (20th October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Greenberg, Raphael; Rotem, Yael; Paz, Sarit
• Is Part Of: Tel Aviv. Volume 40:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 197
• Page End: 225
• Publication Date: 2013-10-20
• Subjects: TEL BET YERAH&#1460 -- &#1460 -- &#1460 -- EARLY BRONZE CERAMICS -- EARLY BRONZE CHRONOLOGY -- EARLY BRONZE IA -- GRAY BURNISHED WARE -- CRACKLED WARE; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Periodicals; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East -- Periodicals; Israel -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 -- Periodicals; 933
• DOI: 10.1179/033443513X13753505864287
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0334-4355

Abstract

Abstract : The 2007 sounding in the northern part of Tel Bet Yerah yielded a stratigraphic sequence spanning the initial sequence of occupation on the mound, from EB IA to EB II. A robust ceramic assemblage, supported by radiocarbon dates, highlights the earliest part of the sequence. Comprising highly localized industries (including a little-known painted tradition) as well as regional ones (including Gray Burnished Ware), the Tel Bet Yerah assemblage provides a yardstick for ceramic evolution in the northern Jordan Valley between the end of the Chalcolithic and the mature EB I, offering a definition of two ceramic phases within an extended EB IA.