Tel Beit Sheʾan
archaeological site, Israel
Also known as: Tall al-Ḥuṣn
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Bronze Age history of Palestine
- In Palestine: Early Bronze Age
Tall al-Farʿah, Tel Beit Sheʾan, Khirbat al-Karak, and Ai (Khirbat ʿAyy). All these sites are in northern or central Palestine, and it was there that the Early Bronze Age towns seem to have developed. The towns of southern Palestine—for instance, Tel Lakhish, Kiriath-sepher, and Tel Ḥasi—seem only…
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excavation
- In Beit Sheʾan
…town to the north is Tel Beit Sheʾan (Arabic: Tall al-Ḥuṣn), one of the most important stratified mounds in Palestine. It was excavated in 1921–33 by University of Pennsylvania archaeologists, who found that the lowest strata date from the late Chalcolithic period in the country (c. 4000–3000 bce) and progress…
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