Excavations at the Early Bronze IV Sites of Jebel Qa'aqir and Be'er Resisim

by William G. Dever

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575069474
• ISBN13: 9781575069470
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 386 Pages