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a Map of MB I settlement in the southern Levant as of 2002. Map by W. Wie ˛ ckowski.

a Map of MB I settlement in the southern Levant as of 2002. Map by W. Wie ˛ ckowski.

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Figure 2a Map of MB I settlement in the southern Levant as of 2002. Map...
Figure 2b Map of MB I settlement in the southern Levant, with sites...
Figure 3 Current map of MB I settlement in the southern Levant. Map by...
Figure 4 Map showing both EB IV and MB I sites in the inland regions of...
+1 fig. 17.1). By contrast, distinctive Middle Bronze Age settlement is...
The Early Bronze IV — Middle Bronze I transition in the southern Levant: analysis and assessment
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  • Jun 2022
The transition between the Early Bronze Age IV and the Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant remains poorly understood, stemming in part from traditional approaches to the problem that frame it in terms of exogenous cultural origins and disjuncture versus indigenous growth and continuity of development. However, the growing range of diversity of...
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... settlement is most notable on the coastal plain, in the north, and along east-west transportation routes; these locations also have higher numbers of large, urban and fortified sites ( Fig. 2a and 2b) (Cohen ...

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Diachronic changes in dental health of Bronze Age rural populations from Nahal Refaim, Israel
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  • May 2024
  • INT J OSTEOARCHAEOL
We present the results of a study of dental pathology (specifically dental wear, caries, dental calculus, and enamel hypoplasia) carried out on 1108 teeth and empty alveoli of Bronze Age human populations that inhabited the rural settlement of Nahal Refaim, on the outskirts of the city of Jerusalem. The remains derive from a tomb complex that spans three phases of the period; Intermediate Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age I and Middle Bronze Age II villages that replaced them (ca. 2500–1550 BC). Dental pathology can reflect diet and therefore offers a unique insight into the lifeways of past populations. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which the dental health of this rural population was influenced by the far‐reaching socioeconomic changes associated with the regional shift to urbanism by the Middle Bronze Age II. Although constrained by small sample sizes, we found that the pattern of dental pathology varied in a nonlinear fashion over time and have discussed the factors that may have attributed to this variation.
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