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Ashqelon Barne�a. The Early Bronze Age Site I, The Excavations

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Ashqelon Barne�a. The Early Bronze Age Site I, The Excavations

Author

Amir Golani

Year

2019

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority / ____ _______

Language

English

Pages

17

ISBN

978-9-65406-707-2

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Last Update

01-Nov-2024

Keywords

Archaeology

Description

The site of Ashqelon Barne‘a is part of a much larger Early Bronze Age I site that extends from the tell in the south, includes the marina and the Afridar neighborhood of the modern city of Ashqelon, and now reaches the northern neighborhood known as Barne‘a B–C (Fig. 1.1; see p.6). The EBI site of Ashqelon is located on the southern coastal plain, which reaches c.20 km wide in this region and is bordered on the east by the Judean Shephelah. Originally, this part of the coastal plain was characterized by two sandstone (kurkar) ridges extending northeast–southwest, parallel...

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