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‘Atiqot 56 (2007)
ISBN 2948-040X
Iron Age IIA Remains from a Salvage Excavation at Sulam
(pp. 23*–32*)
Yardenna Alexandre
Keywords: organic material, Carbon-14, Shishak’s campaign
The site is located in the Jezreel Valley, near the slopes of Giv‘at Ha-More. Four building phases were observed: the latest phase (Stratum I) was attributed to the late Byzantine–Early Islamic periods, while three earlier phases (Strata IIa–c) date to Iron Age II; meager Hellenistic and Iron I sherds were found as well. Strata IIc and IIa were exploited as cooking areas, and Stratum IIb may have been an industrial installation connected with fire (kiln? furnace?). The charcoal samples from Stratum IIb that were analyzed support the conventional Iron IIA chronology.