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‘Atiqot 62 (2010)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Salvage Excavation near Tel Regev
(Hebrew, pp. 1*–14*; English summary, p. 169)
Zach Horovich and Doron Lipkunsky
Keywords: Carmel, Early Bronze Age, rampart
In a salvage excavation conducted north of Tel Regev, at the foot of the Carmel Ridge, two strata were exposed, dating from the Early Bronze Age and the Byzantine period. An artificial fill, comprising a compact, uniform layer of crushed lime, was unearthed, containing an abundance of EB I–III sherds. It was evidently constructed with debris from the adjacent tell, probably serving a non-military rampart, built to protect the tell from flooding by nearby Nahal Zippori. Based on the finds, it seems that the “rampart” was built toward the end of the Early Bronze Age.