Egyptian-Levantine Connections: New evidence for Early Bronze Age fortifications and some preliminary results of an initial season of investigations at Tel Erani, Israel

Krzysztof Ciałowicz, Yuval Yekutieli, Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin, Karolina Rosińska-Balik, Omer Shalev, Michał Wasilewski

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Abstract

This paper briefly outlines the results of the Israeli-Polish excavations at Tel Erani, Areas D3 and N3 (Fig. 2.1) in 2013, and its major preliminary discoveries. Located on the outskirts of Qiryat Gat, Israel, this large tell is the site of one of the most important Early Bronze Age occupations in the southern Levant. Known for having yielded significant evidence of an Early Bronze Age I occupation (c. 3700–2950 BC; Yekutieli 2007, 66) with many Egyptian remains from the late predynastic period (c. 3150–2950 BCE, Brandl 1989; Yeivin 1960a), it has also yielded remains of Early Bronze II...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCurrent Research in Egyptology 2014
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium, University College London and King's College London, April 9-12, 2014
EditorsMassimiliano S. Pinarello, Justin Yoo, Jason Lundock, Carl Walsh
Place of PublicationOxford & Philadelphia
PublisherOxbow Books
Chapter1
Pages13-28
Number of pages16
Volume15
ISBN (Electronic)9781785700491
ISBN (Print)9781785700460, 9781785700477
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

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