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Preface 9
Chapter One
INTRODUCTION J3
A. The Study of Agriculture in Ancient Israel 15
B. Agriculture and the Emergence of Israel 21
Chapter Two
THE PARAMETERS OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEtv;S 25
A. Classifications of Agriculture 27
B. The Parameters of Agriculture 32
1. Environment 32
2. Agricultural Technology 36
3. Population 4-2
C. Summary 50
Chapter Three
GEOMORPHOLOGY OF HIGHLAND CANf\AN 53
A. Introduction 55
B. The Regions 56
1. The Negev Highlands 56
2. The Judean Highlands 58
3. The Sarnarian highlands 63
4-. The Galilean Highlands 67
C. The Consequences of Geomorphological Diversity 72
Chapter Four
CLIMATE AND CLIMATIC CHANGE 77
A. Climate 79
1. Introduction 79
2. Seasonality 79
3. Air Temperature and Insolation 81
4. Precipitation 84
5. Water Availability 91
B. Climatic Change 99
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NATURAL VEGETATION AND SOILS 109
A. Introduction 111
B. Nature of the Climax Vegetation 111
C. Causes of Deforestation 115
D. Age of Deforestation 117
E. Consequences of Deforestation 120
F. Soil Landscape 123
1. Soil Distribution and Properties 123
2. Soils and Agriculture 130
G. Natural Vegetation and Soils:
Consequeoces for~ignIand Settlement 132
Chapter Six
POPlJLATIOl'l 135
A. Introduction 137
B. Settlement Pattern.: 138
1• . Community Layout 139
2. Individual Structures and Installations 142
3. Zonal Pattern of Settlement 157
C. Population Landscape and Agriculture 167
Chapter Seven
AGRICULTURAL OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES:
WATER CONSERVATION AND CONTROL 171
A. Introduction 173
B. Terrace Systems 173
C. Irrigation 186
D. Field Techniques 187
Chapter Eight
AGRICULTURAL OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES:
SOIL CONSERVA TION AI\D FERTILITY J\;;AINTENANCE
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A. Introduction 191
B. Fallowing and Land-Use Intensity 192
I. Green Fallow 195
2. Crop Rotation 197
3. Sabbatical-Year Law 200
C. Fertilization 202
D. Terrace Systems 208
E. The Soil Base in Highland Agriculture 209
Chapter Nine
AGRIC ULTURAL OBJEC TIVES A i\ D S1 RA TEGIES:
RISK SPREADING Al\D THE OPTI~IIZATION OF LABOR 211
A. Introduction 213
B. Work in the Fields 213
1. Plowing and Planting 214-
2. harvesting 223
3. Vine and Tree Crops 227
4-. The Structure of \vork in the Fields 232
C. Land Use 235
1. Types of Land Use 235
2. Land-Use Pattern 237
3. Crop Mix and Yielding Characteristics 24-1
4. Agriculture and Livestock husbandry 24-5
5. Land-Use Pattern: Summary 250
D. Social Structure and Institutions 251
Chapter Ten
CONCLUSION: SUBSISTENCE CHALLENGES
AND THE EMERGENCE OF ISRAEL 263
Notes 279
Abbreviations 286
Bibliography 287
Indexes 314-
Maps 324-
Table
1. Land-Use Classifications 29
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1. Land Quality Variation 34-
2. Water Balance - Jerusalem 93
3. Possible Rotational Pattern A 198
4-. Possible Rotational Pattern B 198
5. Sabbatical Year in Biennial Rotation 201
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To my wife,
Denise Dombkowski Hopkins,
fellow teacher, scholar, and parent.
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
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Terrace Cultivation.
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Table 1
Land-Use Classifications
A. Allan
Uncultivatable or waste Available for other purposes
Partial cultivation land Variable cultivation of sites
Shifting cultivation land 1 : more than 10
Recurrent cultivation land 1-4: 1-10
Semi-permanent land 1-2: 1-3
Permanent cultivation 1-0 : 1-2
B.Wolf
Long-term fallowing systems 1-4: 1-10
Sectorial fallowing systems 2-3: 3--4
Short-term fallowing 1-2 : I
Permanent cultivation 1: 0
Permanent cultivation of Combined land uses
favored plots (infield-
outfield system) /2/
C. Von ThQnen
Pasture-stock farming Extensive pasture
- no cropping
Three field system 1: 2
Alternate crop-fallow I:1
Fodder-legume rotation 1:0
Forestry /3/ Extensive use
Dairying-horticulture 1 : 0 no rotation
D. BOserup
Forest-fallow cultivation 1-2: 20-25
Bush-fallow cultivation /4/ 1-8: 6-10
Short-fallow cultivation [1-2] : 1-2
Annual cropping 1 : 0 Seasonal fallow
Multi-cropping 1 : 0 Successive crops
without fallow
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2. Agricultural Technology
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teCl1n9!ggy:
A determinant.of 9griculture?,,;i
Towh~t·'exteI1F~ay~vCl.ilablefEkhnologybe, consider
autonomous parameter of agricultural systems, ,if at all
addressing this question of Cintonomous "technology we do
intend to enter the" contemporary discussion of runa
technology, technology-cut-of-control, or the percei
problem of keeping social-structural pace with rap
advancing technology (see Winner 1977). Rather the quest
at hand, simply stated,' is whether there is a simple depend
relation between available technology and agricultu
systems. As we have already seen, some technologies may,
viewed as the minimum, requirement for cultivation in so
environments, and the 'importance of technological fact
increases with increasing ..environmental marginality.
however, does not reveal whether technology is the
determinant of agriculture above this minimum level
intensity.
Consideration of" the" relationship
agriculture frequently involves the added factor
population. While we will discuss this question in or,,,;:,'~pf
/ detail below, an essential assumption of this
technology-agriculture triad merits attention at
juncture. The contributions of anthropologists and
archaeologists to the early history of civilization have often
been concerned to relate the growth of population
increases in food production brought about by technological
innovation. V. Gordon Childe's writings on the origins
agriculture and urbanization (the Neolithic and
revolutions) are the classical expression of this idea.
Childe's view the transition from hunting and gathering
agriculture "gave man control over his-own food supply"
thus removed thelirriits on population of the food gathering
community which had been "restricted in size by the
supplies available." Now food supply could be increased at
will, and, further, food production itself provided "an
opportunity and a motive for the accumulation of a surplus,"
which paved the way to the second or urban revolution (1951:
66-69, 82-83, 122-123). One cannot fail to note in Childe's
work a narrow focus on tool technology which excludes from
consideration how, for example, advances in social skills may
have contributed to the urban revolution (compare the similar
critique by Halligan 1975: 36-39). Instead, one finds that the
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rpal'luring,atldwe.eding',al1 :addto,the'labor:requirement.'1h
to tat. labor required by. the; traction .plow system grows st'
higher;,;;jm;luding; nqt;onlyth~;afduous'Operationof the
itseU,bu'tiyear-roUflchcare for the draft animal s, Thee
to .•.. the.mosti.intensive;·.typesi.ofi.Jand .iiuse,. annual.La
multi-eropping, involvesincreasing ..inputs '.' for • •. f ertilizati
and espedaHy.land improvelueotsJe.g., irrigation syste
which.eventuateinJong hours of regular daily work.
Boserup's much' more detailed and nuanced descriptions
the Iabor.. .. requirements. of each land-use type clea
demonstrate that the cumulative effect of intensification
agricultural methods/is an increase in labor input. But
this increased labor input rewarded by at least
proportionate increase in yields? No, argues Boserup,the ne
effect of .agricultural intensification isa downturn in labo
productivity or.efficiency, a decrease in output per w
hour. As· intensification proceeds, demanded, for example,
the need for greater total food production, land is cropp
more frequently and fallow reduced with the result that soi
fertility is impaired. Yields decline, and the increased output
is threatened. In order to maintain the yields required for th~i
increased output, soil fertility must be protected, and this i~
accomplished by. increased inputs of labor for new practices
of weeding and fertilization and for other elements of the
intensive agricultural system. In Boserup's perspective the
additional labor input which accompanies agricultural
intensification is not viewed "as a means to raise crop yields
in order to produce additional food for the growing
population," but "as a means to prevent a decline of
yields despite the shortening of fallow" (I 965: '+ 1, ,+3).
increase in total output created by the intensification of
agricultural system is purchased at the cost of
output perwork hour and, thus, longer days in the fields.
Apart from this eltogether sound and fairly convincinz
descriptive and analytical argurnent,Boserup also
her claim with a statistical comparison of the
irrigated agricultural regimes of India and China which shows
that the average labor days per field unit involved in growing
different crops may be twice as high for intensive irrigated
agriculture as for dry (I 965: 39-lf;0). But this statistical
comparison is greatly limited and refers only to the transition
from dry to irrigated agriculture. Critics have rightly
perceived this weakness and have countered Boserup with
more extensive figures covering a wider range of agricultural
types including both cross-cultural and single-society samples
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(e.g., Bhatia 1968: 431; Sheffer 1971: 378; I..Jrigg 1979: 72).
Boserup's assertion that labor efficiency always declines with
increasingargicultural intensity cannot be supported from
these data which are at best inconclusive. The most detailed
analysis • to date reaches a parallel conclusion. Bronson
supplies a welter of data from a wide spectrum of cultures
and epochs which shows just the opposite of boserup's con-
tention: "shifting cultivation is not always, and perhaps not
usually, easier work than permanent field farming" (J 972:
191). He goes on, however, to question the worth of
cross-cultural comparisons and then turns his eye towarc a
measurement of the productivity of different agricultural
systems found among a single people. Data on maize farming
in highland Guatemala offer mixed signals with respect to
Boserup's claim. "Long and bush fallowing seerr. to be equally
productive, while short fallowing is inferior to the other two.
But none of the shifting regimes are a match for annual
cropping from the standpoint of labor efficiency" (bronson
1972: 194). Bronson will not dismiss Boserup's claim
completely, however, but argues only for the in-
appropriateness of generalizing about relative labor
productivity in agricultural regimes of varying intensities.
On the basis of this discussion, it is clear that neither the
inclusive claim that the advancing technology associated with
intensive agricultural production consumes proportionately
more labor than it delivers output nor blind assertions about
productive bonanzas provided by technological innovation can
be fashioned into hard and fast rules. Thus neither provides
the key to illustrate fully the relationship between
technology and agricultural systems. The availability of more
advanced agricultural technology cannot be said with
confidence to constitute a "pull" towards its use in intensified
agriculture. If the employment of an advanced technology in
an intensive agricultural regime represented a more easy
method of production, requiring fewer hours of labor, then
the choice of one such technological system from among
others would be readily understandable. If such a system were
actually more arduous and produced less per work hour than
one of lower intensity employing less advanced technology,
and this must be held out as a clear possibility in many cases,
then its acceptance would only be explained by the pressure
of other, highly persuasive forces. Claims for the simple
dependence of agriculture on technology fall to the ground
with this conclusion.
We must consider briefly one further point involved in our
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3. Population
a. Dependent or determinant?
Population has been viewed both as a completely dependent
variable and a completely independent parameter of
agricultural systems. The former view has been the most
prevalent. We have already noted the widespread tendency to
relate population growth to increases in food production
brought about by technological innovation. Along these lines,
Philip E. L. Smith remarks that among most branches of
anthropology "an increase in population is nearly always seen
axiomatically as a consequence of enlarged food resources or
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seldom, if ever,.exc1usive:ly:sllPsis'tencenee<ts~·andnQneo
To expect. a neat corJelationbe;tw/:enpoPulationan<:i . ,ag
tl)rali.ntensity,··wou1d,j"e·to'col'lceive:of.tthe<needs
agricultura!;:.communitYltoonattrow!yoYj;attending:,
those which are .dir:ectly related ·,.to,popUlatiorh,B.A.;
among others. has pointed to this understanding of produ
as limited to use asa major 'deficiency Qithe jthesisH
139). Taking this narrow-focus-on subsisteece-productiond
consideration may make an observed lack of correlati
between population density.· and agricultural intens'
comprehensible, ,sincethe.presence of any ,. production
specifically related to filling mouths and meeting subsist
needs of a population would.throw off the equation.
In his analysis of this question for Pacific.sccieties.H.•
Brookf ieldbas distinguished, threeidifferent classes.'
production, which can help systematize . our . picture of
total needs of an c agricultural 'community. These
subsistence production, social production, and t
production (I972: 38). Brookfield defines subsistence
duction as lithe narrower sense of 'production for use' me
ing production for autoconsumptionby the grower,
family, and immediate associates" (1972: 3&). To make d
that this subsistence production represents more than just~·
basic minimum for •short-term nourishment, it must c' be
emphasized that it includes as well the creation of a ''normal:
surplus" which fanners produce as insurance against crop
failures and the vagaries of climate and history (Allan 1965:
38-48). Brookfield considers this "level of subsistence nee<.f:~
as a 'surface' which has close orthornorphism with the surfas~
of population density" JI972: 38). Superimposed upon this .i~s
the surface of social needs which social production mu~
satisfy. This would comprise "goods produced for the use~t
others in pre station, ceremony and. ritual and hence haYi~
primarily social purpose " (Brookfield 1972: 44). bronson war~
us not to construe the. category of prestation (obligatod
performance) too technically, for political inducementtp
production is present in less stratified as well as highl¥
stratified societies. Since the essence of prestation is that
"the inducers do not propose to do the extra worJ<
themselves," any society in which this separation between th~
decision makers and .the laborers exists may be home for
production stimulated for non-subsistence purposes (I97~
200-201). The final class of productionis production for tra~~
which like the others may -be more or less developed in/~
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~J:~. immediately unavailable goods (Brookfield ! 972; 38). The
growth of such-exchange is often associated with the growth
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iiiofurban . demandr but is dearly a widespread phenomenon
~X(Grigg 1979: 75).
tr To the extent that all these elements of social and trade
e, production are:keptat a minimum (as perhaps in some
.. egalitarian, self-sufficient societies), the relationship
between subsistence needs and population may be strong. In
principle, however, it is the total needs of the community and
not just its subsistence needs which determine production. As
a substitute for the term of population density in Boserup's
correlation with agricultural intensity, Brookfield has
suggested the "total pressure of needs on resources" (I 972:
44). B. Datoo has followed Brookfield to the same conclusion:
"Clearly, the determinants of different purposes of
production - for instance, population density in the case of
subsistence production and societal stratification in that of
social production - are all potential parameters of the
system" (1978: 140). The presence of any of these additional
determinants of different purposes of production in a given
community will force an increase in the scale of production
and may account for an intensification of production beyond
what subsistence alone would appear to warrant. Given the
presence of persuasive forces the demand for greater
non-subsistence production may be met by an intensive
agriculture operated uneconomically by a less dense
population than one would expect. From another perspective,
the consideration of a given people's ability to operate an
agricultural system must take seriously the presence of
production requirements above those of mere subsistence:
input and output must be balanced in an overall picture of a
community's agricultural needs.
We have been addressing the synchronic aspect of the
correlation between population density and agricultural
intensity; that is, can this correlation predicted by attention
to the labor requirements of intensive agriculture be
substantiated by observable practice? There remains yet the
diachronic aspect of this question to consider. If a population
reaches a certain critical level of density or pressure of
needs on resources, will it turn automatically to an in-
tensification of its agricultural system?
If we control all the other parameters of an agricultural
system while allowing its population to increase and pressure
on resources to build, can we be certain that environmentally
possible intensification would result? The answer to this
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Other consequences of population growth, other responsestq
its challenge exist. The most obvious response to increasing
population pressure is emigration, "both.' Hterallya'
! figuratively .a 'wayout'ofthe problem (Smith and You
1972: 17). Among other possible alternatives to agriculture]
intensification under the pressure of population growth may
be population control itself, an assertion which seems-rathee
strange in a world where advanced means of birth control
seem barely adequate to the task. Primitive population
control and its techniques (e.g., infanticide and delayed
marriage) are coming under increasing study, however (see
the literature cited by Baker and Sanders 1972: 166-167; Grigg
1979: 76). The development of rural industries which are able
to absorb the extra supply of labor in productive employment
would represent another non-agricultural response to
population pressure (Grigg 1979: 76), as would arrneds
expansionist conflicts with neighboring communities (Smith
and Young 1972: 17).
Whatever the response, it may be inadequate and
over-population may result, the effects of which are felt
both the environment and the community.
may lead to over-exploitation of the environment. For
example, overgrazing and the destruction of
coupled with destructive soil erosion are a regular feature
the past and all too common in the present as well. (See
below, Ch. 5, §C). Overpopulation brings with it undernour-
ishment and starvation as well as massive social turbulence,
landlessness, and unemployment. Rising mortality, as
measured by paleodemographers for example, may have the
inadequate response of a past community to burgeoning
population as one of its root causes (compare Angel 1972: 99).
This list of. possible responses to population growth-
emigration, population control, the development of rural
industries, military expansion, and inadequate measures
leading to overpopulation and its concomitants malnutrition,
social turbulence, and environmental damage - supplies
additional avenues which must be explored in order to
understand fully the relationship between population and
agricultural system in any community.
C. Summary
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Slountains of Scie.
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a mono<:::linal1escarpment'with,>asteep vertical
sometim~s?:greater;than,400m.Because Of, this
declivitY;i!Qe. ~treamswl1ich"drain., the Hebroo'Hills
west \hav~,,'Cut deeply::incised, . v-sha.pedvalleys. with
spurs "be~\Veen'. thenr'(Karmol1·· '.·1971: .329). .The crest
forms ..abroad plateau :.' which ···is·· .pocketed . by ····se
depressions of karsticorlgtn of which the largest is the
Berakh, north of' Hebron.
The Jerusalem Saddle. Traveling north from Hebro
southern boundary' of the Jerusalem Saddle- is met
Valley of Arras, location of the Pools of Solomon. The
originating in this valley flows just south of Herodium t
its outlet in the Dead Sea (Karrnon 1971: 329). North 0
border,the plateau-like core of the Judean Highlan
distinguished by a drop in elevation and by an accornpan
conspicuous widening of the crest to. the east and,"
notably, to the west. Far from topgraphically smo
however, the Jerusalem Saddle is strongly dissected. Drai
to the east, the Nahal Qidron issues from the heart
Jerusalem •. itself; above it the Har HaZofim-Har E
interfluviaLridgetowers over the city and forms
unmistakable border with the .Judean Desert. The tributa
of the Waddi Mukollek and the Wadi Qelt form narrow val
and even canyons as they drop from the eastern flank of t
Saddle parallel to and north of its center city. Nahal Sof
and Nahal Ayalon, the main drainage routes to the west,a
fed by a score of tributaries (N. Refa'irn and N. Kesalon are
the main branches of the Soreq whose upper reach flo
beneath Ein Kerem; N. Nahshon is the main branch of
Ayalon which itself stretches through the valley of the sa
name which cut through the plateau up to the rim of t
anticline in a battery of deep valleys of varying widths.'
distinct from the erosive streams of the Hebron and Be
Hills, however, those of the Jerusalem Saddle do
generally converge in the hills, but in the narrow strip"
Senonian chalk that separates the mountain region fromt
Shephalah, For this reason, the intervening interfluves a
longer, more gently sloped, and "form continuous spurs whl
enable a fairly easy ascent from the coastal plain to
mountain" (Karman 1971: 327). The valleys of the strea
themselves are predominantly v-shaped with no acco
panying flood plain, except at the heads of the valle
in the mountains which open up considerably. (Note .e
pecially the upper reaches of the Soreq below Ein Kere
The interfluves of these valleys are topped with flat or
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c. Iron:HHls".
~e~()~~thE:.'Bot~b~sin(af1(;f.t~e\v~ditt1a.t ·•:·?ra.i~sift
M~itert~~eafl': '.lII..' fff cfe r.a)tt1; .• "fntidinal.:tructure.,
Iron Hills occupIes a r()ugt11y restfngulararea. bordered 0
east by .iheJezre;l Valley, on tt1e.westby the coastal
and in the north by the .Wadi Iron which separates It fro'
Menashe region, Within these boundaries, 'this : hill
Initiates the singular southeast-northwest bearing of
Carmel range. The. Iron Hills are an uplifted horst w
reaches. a height of. 518m and consists of Cenomanian
Turonian rocks with .a patch of volcanic rock at its cen,
Drainage of the Iron HHlsruns in two directions. In
southwest the drainage takes the route of . the. norj
tributarIes of the Hadera which follow the gradual descen
the hills to .the coastal plain. The. northeast half of the
descends to the Jezreel Valley where its streams merge
the N. Qishon,
d. Menashe Plateau
The Carmel range continues north of N. Iron in
Intervening synclinal structure of the Menashe Plates]
Running through a trough of Senonian chalk, N. Yoqne'a
forms the northern border of this quadrangle of low hills
the edge of the Carmel anticline. Typical of
structures of the Sarnarian Highlands, the superficial
almost exclusively Eocene, with some patches of Senonian r
chalk and a few nubs of basalt. The area of western drain c
forms a tilted plateau at about 200m which is carved by n
upper reaches of N. Daliyya and Tanninirn into a series s
open valleys. To the east of the rim which divides 1.
watershed, the slope to the Jezreel is steep and the drain c
into the. Qishon must pass through a fault scarp w . d
effectively demarcates the Jezreel and the Menashe region. C
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e. Mt Carmel Sl
The anticlinal heights of the Mt Carmel region
Carmel range with an uplifted block presenting
Cenomanian-Turonian face dotted with pockets of volca
rock. Mt Carmel forms a coat hanger-shaped triangle with•.!, v.
medium-high escarpment running for 32km along the coastCl,S
its base. The northeast side drops precipitously at a fa
scarp of sometimes more than 400m to the Jezreel Valley a
ranges to its intersection with the southwest side of
triangle, the Yoqne'am valley, The ridge at the top of
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A. Climate
1. Introduction
2. Seasonality
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the extent of the deviation from the mean. Working with 106
yearsof data from Jerusalem, Neumann has found that the
frequency distribution of rain amounts approximates the
normal curve (unimodal, symmetrical, rnesokurtic-bell-
shaped) (Neuman 1956: 58-63). The curve is a function of the
mean annual precipitation and the standard deviation which
for Jerusalem amount to 560mm and 142mm respectively.
According to the properties of the normal curve, rain will fall
outside the range of the standard deviation both above and
below the mean just over 31 percent of the time. Rainfall
wlll deviate from the mean by a value of one-half the
standard deviation over 60 percent of the time. For
Jerusalem this means that three years out of ten will
experience accumulations of rainfall about 16 percent less
than the mean and that one or two of these years will
experience more than 25 percent less. Thus rainfall of less
than 489mm would be expected three years out of ten with
half of these accumulating less than 41 Smrn,
The relationship between the two parameters which
determine the rainfall distribution curve throughout the
Highlands produces a clear indication of the range of
interannual variation and the overall dependability of
rainfall. Katsnelson has calculated the coefficient of
variation, the ratio between the standard deviation and the
mean, for various locations throughout the Highlands, as well
as the coastal plain and the Rift Valley based upon
thirty-year-period data from 1921-1950. The Highland data
have a mean coefficient of variation of 30 percent which
means that on the average the standard deviation reaches
close to one-third of the mean precipitation. Lowest on the
list of Highlands' stations is Kefar Gil'adi in the eastern
northern Galilean Ramot Naphtal i, Latrun at 200m in the
Shephelah achieved the highest of 33.6 percent, while
Jerusalem's coefficient of variation works out to 27.6 percent
(I964: 164, 168-169).
Katsnelson proposes another measure of the interannual
variability of rainfall in the Highlands of Canaan, called the
"relative interannual variability," which permits the
consideration of "whether the changes of precipitation from
year to year are rather smooth or very abrupt" (1964: 169).
Defined as the ratio of the average of absolute differences
between successive years and the mean, the relative
interannual variability differs from the coefficient of
variation by virtue of a numerator based on differences
between rainfall amounts in neighboring years rather than
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diff.<:r:~nq;s'fr:oman'~~'(fet"a~~\Year.~he i SOrn#:'Yha~:'hi
Pfar¢~~tFge~i;PF8du~ed.;in;1;rn~ fllan';1er,.l"anging.a~81.l?d.·a
oft.32'p~~c~rr"fapP~ii1;0;Bi<:ltCate.·i.that di:ff~Fences. f~(1N1
to:;Y~<¥r;:; ~(Ju{en1;!i:ll.di:Ue~~nc~~~ . .e;trc:;moFesignifi£aflt
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diff<:rel)C~.··fromJhe",··mfaan,;~In'Jcmy'case,.: thevaJues{of
relative: interannual· . variability . indicate ra ther: .abr
variations i rtrainfal1from year.rc, year.
Both thercoefflclerrtiof variation and the Values Of
relative interannualvariabilityc are considerably higher
Highland . Canaan '. than. those'. computed '. for iIocati0rts
similar . . amounts of» rainfall in . more temperate; eli
(Katsnelson 1964: 169). Deviations of more thanlOperc
from the annual mean precipitation in Western Europe
exceptional (Orniand~frat 1973:148). In general,
variability of annual rainfall increases with decreasing ann
precipitation, though without uniformity (Foster 19q;8: 13
This is borne out in the Highlands where the operation of
northern-direction factor is 'observable. The effect
distance from .the sea on variability of rainfall is als6
apparent, especially in the Zebulon-Yizreel-Harod val1~l
chain,. as is the. relative dissection of the mountain face~<
exposed to the sea. The combination of all these factors carl
be seen in the fact that the lowest variability is found in th.e
Mt Carmel region (a compact mountain in dose proximity to.
the sea), while the highest variability is encountered in the
Central Negev Hills.
The general rule that variability increases with decreasinz
annual precipitation has especially serious consequences
those areas which lie on the border of aridity,
agricultural possibility is limited by low annual pn"cipitafionif0:';ft
The' average precipitation figures for these regions
frequent dips below the amount of rainfall for
farming. Whatever. figure of" minimum average pn~cipitatjlol;l
is accepted as setting the limits of agriculture;
marks must not be conceived as a thin line, but a wide
of precariousness. Heaping further difficulties upon the
arid regions as well as the rest of the Highlands is the
that years which do not achieve the mean may bunch
creating dry periods. Series of rainfall-deficient years;
as the one Semple notes in Athens where a decade held seven,
markedly subnormal years (1931: 92), are all too frequent
even far from the border of aridity. In Jerusalem most of the
years between lS69 and 1873 and between 1924 and 1936
were. significantly deficient in rainfall (see the data in Ashbel
1951: 97). Writes Amiran: !
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5. Water Availability
a. Rainfall
If the annual precipitation in Highland Canaan approx-
imates the normal distribution curve, then the number of
years of low rainfall will be balanced by the number of years
in which rainfall surpasses the mean. Unfortunately, this
balance does not signify compensation, and any extra water
available for subsistence in one year does not directly carry
over into the next year's ledger.
The question of water availability, especially for ag-
ricultural crops, is not solely determined by the amount of
rainfall as measured at a meteorological station. A con-
sideration of the other factors which affect the ''bottom line"
of the rainfall ledger produces numerous insights about the
adaptation of agriculture to the Highland Canaan environ-
ment.
Rainfall, the major source of water in Highland Canaan,
passes through a number of stages on its way to becoming
available for agricultural purposes (Evenari, Shanan and
Tadmor 1971: 135). A certain quantity of the rain that first
descends from the clouds is required to wet the vegetation
and does not reach the ground. Once this so-called
interception storage is filled, rain begins to penetrate the
ground in a second stage, called infiltration. Infiltration is
determined by the kind of soil, its state, and the velocity of
the precipitation. The high-velocity rainfall of Highland
Canaan has a tendency to seal pores in the surface of the soil
and, thus, reduce infiltration, especially at the beginning of
the rainy season when the surface layer of soil is completely
desiccated and nonfloculated. The rate of infiltration varies
from soil to soil, with some of the heavy soils of the basins,
for example, showing greatly impeded infiltration rates. Once
the soil is saturated or whenever the rate of precipitation
exceeds the rate of infiltration, as is most often the case in
Highland Canaan, small depressions on the surface begin to
fill with the excess rain water, The water which fills these
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----- Precipitation
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?;;.:O: Water deficiency
r / Soil moisture utilization
.. :::--.:::: Soil moisture recharge
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cisterns chave,been,unearthed,testifyingtothe
these facilities (Broshi 1977:9l6).'
"'.;Non~, of"''$ese few/examples of reserv9ir~orciste
appears:dn'a,locati,onJithatwould' c,~uggest,?its.c,'use
agricultural purpoSes;}l.e.,;~tlocated\\lhere,theycould be u
to .theadvantq.ge,' 'Of "fields below'thern, ;rulingoutJ
use'fulnessforirrigation" (Miller 1980: 337). One.could posh
limited, garden..type irrigation carried on jar by jar, buttf'i~
reservoirs more likely stored water for human consumption or
for watering livestock kept within the settlement. Callaway
has suggested' a ,similar function for ,a rock-cut cister~
discovered at the bottom of one of the valleys surrounding
the hill-top site of tAi: "the cistern must have been cut fo¢
shepherds to use in watering their flocks" (1975: 52). Similar
cisterns "must also have been ,c' hewn in' the vicinity 'of;
agricultural 'fields. 'Perhaps one may infer as much fromls'~
27.3 'where a cistern carved in the vineyard would have
facilitated the keeper's watering. In any case, cisterns in the
fields, would have made water available for hand watering of
household gardens, individual plants such as trees or vines, or
rows of other crops.
Springs and -wells -would have also provided limited
possibilities ,for irrigation of crops. Springs consist
outflows of ground water that occur when impervious
strata upon which water accumulates intersect the
surface. The presence of springs thus depends upon the
presence of impermeable strata beneath permeable
superficial rocks. The flow of springs depends upon the
permeability of upper layers of rock and the amount of
rainfall infiltration. A well amounts to an artificial means of
tapping the same ground water brought to the surface
naturally in aspring,
Geological conditions favoring the appearance of springs
are found' throughout much of the Highlands where highly
permeable Cenomanian and Turonian limestones contain
shallow intercalations of impermeable marl which frequently
lead ground water to the surface. In the Judean and Samarian
Highlands, for example, roughly two hundred small springs
are sprinkled in a band running north-south to the west of the
present central mountain road (Atlas of Israel, s.v;
"Hydrology V/211) . The regions of basaltic superficial rock
such as Eastern Lower Galilee, on the other hand, are
generally poor in springs due to its impervious nature. Larger
springs, such as those along the western shore of the Dead
Sea," the Gihon east of Jerusalem, and the spring at Jericho,
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jSyst
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~Ut~ It.\Uiif~/ ~
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bee
percentages of marsh vegetation, open-field vegetation, and viol
arboreal pollen are interpreted as reflecting an increase in and
humidity. Slight increases of arboreal pollen are generally Eun
paralleled by increasing percentages of open-field pollen, recc
-showing the expansion of both under more favorable no
[conditions, A more considerable positive increase in arboreal Eas'
'pollen sees a decrease in the percentage of open-field pollen, of ~
"reflecting a thickening of the arboreal cover which competes also
"successfully against the lower vegetation. The curve of marsh radi
vegetation varies inversely with that of the arboreal, and this sche
circumstance is explained .by the topography of the Hula recc
basin. Humid conditions which bring about an expansion of polk
!
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satisfactory indicators~<ofvege!atf~~~fs~anp~S(
the larger region. ·ThisiseSpe(;.ia.IfY'I:I~rri~~ing··!~
draw paraII~ls !o·targerctiltur'aI·e~isotf~~"!b~··
variegation of . the~eva~t .speIls.a."1~~~~tclf
uniformity "and 'places an 'insui-mou~ta:BIe": hedge'
attempts . to extrapolate ,from thelocal!~th<:,;
situation. finally, and to my mind decisively,vegeta
water availability are determined by morefactorstr
the climatic. Human activities may lead to "an incr
runoHand show an increase in the level of the Hu
which would be wrongly interpreted as a change
regime. Similarly, agricultural actfvltles.vsuch as
clearing can decrease the. arboreal pollen percent~ge
absence of climatic variation, In the opposite dlr
intensive investment in economic trees-eoutdservet
the percentage of arboreal pollen (for example, Ole
Stager (forthcoming) also notes. There is no justificati
ruling out human causation except in the very young m
(contra Horowitz 1971: 260; see also Greig and Turne
186, 193). "
Another recent attempt to reconstruct the climate of
Levant from 8000 B.C.E. fares no better in achievi'
synthesis of data. A. Crown argues for parallelism be!'
the climates of the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe'
relies upon evidence charting changes in atmosp
circulation and ocean temperatures, Neev and Em
sedimentary analysis of the Dead Sea, Butzer's paleocli
ological studies, and analysis of the Zeribarand Meraba~
sediments (I972: 379-330). he groups this evidence tog
with archaeological and historical data and arrives
to
reconstruction that reads like a potpourri' of 'isolated
co
and variegated analyses. In the end the correlation of va
irr
data proves problematic since it merely rnultipliesthef
th
of possible determinants and probable error. Eve'
pr
individual pieces of evidence prove substantial, the pro
fo
of synchronism refuses to go away and renders' ek
reconstructions of questionable value as analytlcal-histo
tools. . th
th
For present purposes, the reconstruction of the climate
to
the Levant is not vital as an end in itself, but only insofar
it relates to our use of present climatological conditio ne
Si1
indicators of the climate of the early Iron Age in Rig
Canaan. As we have noted previously there is' a tho
justification for this procedure from paleobotanical- At
dendroarchaeological analysis and no sure evidence ora tlu
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CHAPTER FIVE
~orLebonOD.
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Chapter Five
A. Introduction
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Chapter Five - Natural Vegetation & Soils
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basins 'and "the wacfi!vtilleyshave"been so long
ctiltivatiori i t h a t t h e i r i ' c l i m a x v e g e t a t i o n i s l i . . : > t iadequa1:
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C. Causes of Deforestation
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"if'lacc~ssibility,du~<;t:Q.po()r;3,~()mmunicationsand
security: . . AAssp~en,~~ . clQmiran.~,.{fa~tor$e~ving,to··'.'pre.
v~geta tiQ11'\(196i';'t74k1Jle:exploitation of the woodland
construqiqQ.;timPer•"aneL,,fQr!"tilllb~r ,ito .".be"; used,j
manufacturei"of ,.cnarC(l;11,inquarrying, .f<;)r' burning···Jim
for heating fuel is clearly tied to settlement, and, accor
to Rowton, limited in the .Highlands of early periods by"
high cost of transport and inefficient tools (1967: 276).'
clearing of agricultural land also correlates with
expansion of settlement and/or population. Rowton
others consider the pernicious effects 'of " grazing
browsing by domesticated animals not as a primary agent
deforestation but. as' a secondary . agent which inhibitst
regeneratlon.of land·harvested fortimberordeared
agriculture that has been abandoned during acontractio
settlement. The goats and sheep act in tandem to gobbl
newly sprouted seedlings and grass roots, thus preverrting
natural forest succession and aggravating soil erosion
1975: 25-26). The independent effect of pastoralist practices
receives scant notice.
Also receiving little attention from Rowton and
the last item on Zohary's list,. the impact of fire
climax vegetation. This is odd '. not only because
Mediterranean climate presents ideal conditions for fires,
also because fire is known to have been a significant
human hands from time immemorial. Stewart persuasively
argues that early humans not only abandoned
(recklessly only from our modern perspective) to
surrounding vegetation, but deliberately set fires in
achieve a litany of subsistence and other ends (l
118-120). Among other rationales, dense forests offered
use to hunter or collector and were dangerous besides.
were used to rouse or drive game during hunting, to improve
pastures for game, and especially as a tool to procure
maintain the yield of certain desirable plants. Fires were
set as acts of war. Among pastoralists, the use of fire
improve grazing conditions ranks as its highest
"Mature woody growth provides less food for man and
animals than do fire-disturbed sites, with
growth and stimulated seed production, accessible at
levels" (Sauer 1956: 54; see also Limbrey 1975: 11
bountiful resources of the Mediterranean maquis and
would be sure to respond to this treatment and,
density, the grazing of sheep and goats can
conceived of without significant fiery inroads into the clima.X:
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I:hr()nologi~alpl<l~eoLthetradition
cover cand the a s well
thepl"~essitqe~cr~bes.The.•·P<lssage,.whi~h.act~allyconta·
two.·' variClnts.o!·the; Same:ctradition"appears.to.m
reference to anexpa!1sio!1\ofthe.territory of the all'
settled •and . •. territorially constrained tribal. group, per
even into the Transjordan (Maroni 1979: 239). The date a
function of the boundary Iist ,to which this text belong
render problematic its use to define the extent of forest a
the time of the Israelite settlement.
The Hebrew Bible preserves numerous references to forest
which .cornprise positive evidence for the continuedexistence
of forested areas throughout the biblical period but which'do
not provide a solid basis for judgments about their extenta
The Hebrew word most often translated. as forest, "ya'ar
possesses a range of meanings which includes densel>f
forested areas (ya'arhallebanon, 1 Kgs 7.2, 10.17, 21; lsil
37.24) as well as maquis and garigue, the condition gainedb
land which has gone out of cultivation (Hos 2.14, Mic 3.12);
Mention is made of individual forests: "ya'ar Jeprayim (Forest ...
of Ephraim) and "ya'ar hannegeb" (Ezek 21.3, a puzzling>.
reference). Kiriath-Jearlrn's name (village of the forest) may
testify to a once well-known forest. Wild beasts of the forest
(qol-hayto ya'arv.Ps 104.20) make frequent appearances 'in
biblical accounts and metaphors. They are killed by Samson
(Judg 14.5) and David (I Sam 17.34), employed as a metaphor
for divine judgment by Hosea (13.7-8), used as a ready excuse
by the sluggard (Prov 22.13 - clearly ironic), and unleashed
Elisha on the 'forty-two disrespectful children
between Jericho and Bethel (2 Kgs 2.23). Forested
themselves were viewed on occasion as lethal
devouring more than the sword according to one battle
(1 Sam 18.8).
References to the customary use of quantities of wood for
manufacturing furniture, implements, and carts as well as
cultic practices (sacrifices: Gen 22, Lev 107ft., 1 Kgs 18.23)
may suggest the widespread availability and use of wood,
though the ability of the central government and cult to
tolerate possibly high procurement costs must be
mind. For obvious reasons, few such wooden implements
survived to be discovered in archaeological
Richest have been the furniture, bowls, and other items found
in Middle Bronze lIB tombs at Jericho (Kenyon 1976: 563).10
contrast, archaeologists have amassed ample evidence of the
use of timber in house construction.
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F. Soil Landscape
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fqr:ces, andrene~ed the upper'$
.supply of humus (Eyre 1963:
r!zon of.decomposing leaf .Ii
·ould have blanketed the soi
an under e climax vegetation. This hori
the first casualty of the erosive forces w
ed today'seroded soil landscape and wh
and large, tile maturation of the region's so
onsideratiorn; !n mind, brief portraits of the Ii
pes of Highlal)d ,Canaan can be drawn. These a
. Mediterranean brown forest, rendzina, basa1ti~,
1 soils,
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c. Rendzina soils
Less well suited for agriculture in terms of their che
composition are the rendzina 'soils which develop on 's6
limestones and chalk. Their profile differs from those of~'
other mountain soils, being composed of AC horizons.'
humus content of the Highlands rendzina is less than that
the rendzinas of more temperate regions, though under a
forest cover a humiferous topsoil would have developed.}
lime content of rendzlna soils is very high, ranging bet~e
30-80 percent, and the soils show a commensurately high
7.7-8.1. The cation exchange capacity is low, about15~\}
meq per 100 grams of soil, and, thus, these rendzina soilsci
not as fertile as the other soils of the mountains (Atlas
Israel, "Geomorphology IlI3'~Bridges 1970: 74; Zoharyl,.,,:,~,}
n), This deficiency in mineral content is agricultural!!...,'
balanced somewhat by more propitious physical properti~
and better topographical contexts. Their parent rocks for~.;'
synclinal structures often characterized by round, rolling hi~<
as in the Shephelah and the western part of the Nabl~.
Syncline. Thus rendzina soils occupy areas which are le~
susceptible to the danger of erosion and in which a great~\
percentage of the land is readily suitable for agricultllr~
(Karrnon 1971: 31). The clay content of these soils is mud;,
less than the other mountain 'soils, ranging in sampl~<'
analyzed by Reifenberg between 20-36 percent (I 947: 92)~
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d. Basaltic soils
Basaltic soils occur only in the northern Highlands,
predominantly in Eastern Lower Galilee where they cover,
sometimes thickly, volcanically formed plateaus and hills.
Like terra rossa, the darker basaltic soils are clayey in
texture. In fact, they possess a chemical composition quite
similar to terra rossa, despite the difference in their
parents. The lime content of basaltic soils varies widely
between 0-25 percent, and their pH ranges correspondingly
between 6.6-8.0. The cation exchange capacity is more or
less equivalent to that of Mediterranean brown forest soils,
approxima tely 50 rneq per 100 grams of soil (Atlas of Israel,
"Geomorphology Il/3"). The soils of the plateaus are well
suited for agriculture; slope soils are littered with good-sized
rocks and boulders.
e. Colluvial soils
The floors of the valleys and intermountain basins of the
Highlands are covered with non-autochthonous soils which
have washed down from the surrounding slopes (Atlas of
Israel, "Geomorphology II/3"). These colluvial soils derive
from the mountain soils described above and share in the
chemical composition of their parents. Their pH is somewhat
more alkaline, 7.4-8.2. Physically, these soils range from clay
to loam and thus suffer from the expected range of defic-
iencies with regard to ease of cultivation and waterlogging.
When not plagued by impeded drainage, these generally brown
soils provide productive agricultural environments which are
persistently enriched by down wash from adjoining hills.
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CHAPTER SIX
POPULATION
135
Chapter Six
POPULATION
A. Introduction
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B. Settlement Pattern
1. Community Layout
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a. Non-domestic buildings
While the domestic buIlding characterized by pillare~
construction and comprising two,three, or four rooms ca'i!
justly be labeled thetypicalbuiJding of early Iron A e
Highlands' sites, it is by no means the exclusive type. A
the typical domestic buildings are joined by buil g:i
obviously different. architectural style, perhaps public
buildings and metanu~gicworkshops(Fri tz 1981:65-68 make~
mu<:h of ,this architectural diversity). A. public building
(pillared) may alse) b~fe)undamong domestic types at Kh.,
Raddana where it houses a large cistern and rock-cut pits
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after a timelag, at the end of the 11th century in the
coastal plain; thesilr.ultaneous presence of almost all the
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I (~Ocg.;.p~!e-ri}°lJthjar~r*ith;in~ustrialbllildings)twhile·'•.
a~e .rTl()re .<:()ri)W()I1 ) n c~r~ainse<:t()rs9.fthe. ,site (e.g"t st o
item~ in ti1et;l()rtheast quadrant}.l'v!cCleIIandid notatte.
or \VasunabI~ because of ti1e nature of the data,toascer
whether. for example, storage .items were morecommol'lP'
the lateral rooms..of domestic .houses or cooking pots inI
centra.l., rectangula.r$paces•. The .distrlbutlcn- of artifactsd
domestic bui1dil1gs. was also left unconsidered in Brae
workwbish. concentrated on architectural design. He note
c0l'1duding his study that a .complete portrait has not
r~':Per~(j.uI1JiJ the ,', necessary i;~alysis'of .installations
n()YSj~()I(j:g()()dSha~been C~ndlJcted(l982:157>.
'.Pottery types and ·instaIlations.'W.hile lac:king. the kind'
systematfc, statistical analysis thatwo.uld develop fuHy
implications of the material remains of early Iron
settlement sites, certain regularly encountered pottery trp
and installations deserve' brief mention in this context, '!
association of characteristic pottery techniques and for ','
with the early Israelites has long been a' part of ,
archaeological tradition (Albright [I 960] 1971: 118). \\hile
similarityof basic early Iron Age pottery forms with those
the Late Bronze IIB period has been noted, distinguishing
characteristics are stressed. Thus Ruth Amiran introduces
Iron Age pottery in her corpus:
The continuity between the Canaanite pottery culture of,
the Late Bronze and Iron Age pottery culture, including
both Israelite and other pottery, is clearly apparent
On the other hand, the profound changes brought ~ ........ +.,,,.
in Canaan by the settlement of the Israelite tribes
easily discernable in various material phenomena,
and foremost in the pottery [e.g., burnishing instead
painting] (1970: 192).
The ethnic attribution' of certain pottery types
Israelites is commonplace in archaeology and historical'
reconstructions. Maroni, for one, labels the characterisnq
pottery of the early Iron Age Highlands "conquest
(}982: 174). It is marked by a decline in pottery technique
gritty' clay and non-uniform firing· - and dominated by
kinds of vessels with distinctive 'attributes: the cooking
with an elongated, triangular rim and often loop handles;
the collared-rim pithos, Despite its widespread acceptance,'
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e
~ui.·.·• •the;;'S:rt5~IX;;Ylttrll~~ • • ri!1~fleul~utaJ:.~~efltial.· • ·• f
sne ~e.·~it~~su~~re(jifii A~~~~ii~.'·~~Ga~lee
•.•. !111~;~···... .n•• \1~I~)';'.~n<:I.t~~~~':;~()JJle • a~~nestle
more ru~g~\'m ..... .. . a!noils,porti()~sia'n~·r·W~lnterflu*~
th~ 0CiSin,'their .sitll~ti<ms·are ,·betterdesc.:ribed•• a~ loae
thanagricld~uraI1yrrifrginal0976a).Agood •number
where occupation was initiated irl'theearly Iron Age
Samarian .Highlands, someln the core region of the: N
Syncline- situatedatthe~dgeof"basins like Marj Sanur (
Hajj H79Z.:xJ 9734]) and.theBeit Dagan valley (Kh.lbn
[1792 x 178.3] and Kh, Tanafl861 x 1759]), another loea
the tail of the •Wadi Far'ia in the .• East Samarian Hill
Bur] [1820 x18&.});belong tQ this same category.
candidates5an be drawn from the ranks of newly estab
settlements in the Ju<:iean Highlands as' would be ex
from the . regionalptecipitation patterns. The tel 0
Zakandah(1641 x I193),'situated on a protected hill
area of gentle topography surrounding a spring, is except
in this respect. Its position close to the north
watershed highway also merits notice.
By far the majority of the newly founded early Iron
sites,' however,. do not overlook optimal. agricu]
conditions. The contrast with sites where earlier inhabit
found reason to settle is great in this respect. Based on 1'0
judgments about agricultural feasabiIity(soil type, arnoun
level land, water availability) and recognizing the limitations
of such rough judgments <Compare the exacting methode>!
of Jarman and Webley 1975: 177-1&6,201-221), half (26
the 53 sites on which occupation was renewed in the e
Iron Age offer conditions advantageous to agriculture,
only about one-sixth of the newly founded sites
such a boast. In this respect, the early Iron Age exoansio
settlement'~Ft~e •Hlghlandsintbareas never prev!,
occupied occurred as a kind of pushing back of the bord,
the habitable zone~. At the same time, however, it is esseI'll:
to •• recognize . that settlement of the great majority);~f
previously occupied sites • with favorable .agricult~"
clrcurnstancesoccurred after these sites had lain vacan
the entire· Late Bronze Age (21 of 26). Their ren
settlement constitutes a kind of recovery of the habi
zone. If these sites with broken occupational histories oe(Oi'e
their early Iron Age settlement are added to the sites wit
pr~--early Iro~ Age settlement. histories, then the. by"
pkt~re.of the environmental conditions of the expansio~,;gr'
the settlement brightens considerably. Many of the sites 01
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~griculturaHy.~his,of.".•~ourse, ..·is~?t,t~esaJ'n~~ssa it
arableSland was •. ufree·';wnhin;t~e~gr+cuI~uraJ-sysIe .
there were . 'no~tremend()us'co~ts·invoJv~d 'in 'i>rIng
into production and ···rnaintaining'it.lt does remain
to speak about agricultural objectives telatingto the
and maintenance of : productive farming land and th
strategies adopted to achieve these objectives unci
specific environmental and demographic constraints 0
early IronAgeHightands.(Seebelow.~h.&).Howev
light of the zonal pattern of settlement it appears that
may have been rnorexvital objectives and strategies a
which the primary structure of agriculture in this tim
place took shape.
It is more likely that a-challenge of great weight on·
diverse agricultural agendas of Highlands communitie
imposed by the small size and no doubt fragile nature
communities themselves. The ability of these communit
maintain an adequate supply of labor with which to carr
agricultural operations must have been a constant con
This perceptiori creates an interesting paradox: the'
villages which were collectively part of a large
population growth in the Highlands, were
by population instability and inadequacy. Carol
made much of the early Israelite concern with
tion, arguing that "Israelite society urgently required
plenishment and even a surge in population to combat
effect of the famine, war, and disease at the end of
Bronze Age and to provide the human factor ne,ce~;satY'forF
normal agricultural efforts" 0978: 98). Such a need ooiint5··;t6-
the possible presence of : means to enlarge the
population size, that is, social mechanisms that
production. Notions of solidarity beyond the im!medialt~
family can function in this way, as can
contributions to ceremonial occasions and a host of
social forces. Gottwald has caught a glimpse
importance in the formation of early Israel of motivations
enlarge the effective size of the population and thus Increase'
production. A vital role was played by
the reality that these small-scale intensive
turalists were not producing the greater part of
surpluses to support a voracious leisured class. What
produced they consumed or bartered,., and thus
critical question for. them ••• was to organize forces
.relations, or production that could secure them a
and advancing subsistence level (I979b: 662).
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CHAPTER SEVEl\i
Pools of Solomon.
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A. Introduction
B. Terrace Systems
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d~l'I1andingastaggering;investl'l1ent
nT, T,rnA,:;>n,... I""h",r";fl,,g
Z3)., Needless t~ sa)l,;;th~dabordemandsofterracesyste
mt faU silent withtb~:t9;mpletion oftheinitialconstru
Maintenanceals<> ';"eqt1.il'~ahighjnput"of daborthe
the insp~ction,: t~pair,' ;andreinforcementof"terrace
(Turkowski 1969~,24k;The;high,.,labor.,.,requirement;oh
ace ' systems 'has ;;n~t,gone '," unnoticed 'in .Iiterature
terrace-farming' communities. Authorities on develop
agricultural communities frequently name the high costs'
terracing -as 'chief among factors militating against ;th
introduction in fragile ,environments (Pelzer
Anthony et al, 1979: 120).
Because of their ,high labor. costs, terrace
usually found in cultivating communitiescharacterizedb
set of correlatedcondrttonss-Nettrng, for example, notes tha
among ,the hHlfarmers of Nigeria factors of econorr(
feasibility limit terrace systems to land which could "prod
heavily and on a sustained basis" (Netting 1968: 61). Incl;li
study of land use in Israel, D. Amiran links the establishment
of terrace systems to economic and demographic factors;;
''the amount of labour invested in these ancient terraces and,:
their maintenance was tremendous, an investment possible
only when labour' was a cheap commodity and when the crops
grown on these terraces commanded a good price in a stable
market" (J 962: 102). Beaumont envisions a correlation
between terracing and high population density in the history
of eastern Mediterranean farming (J 976: 133-135).
Even where population is dense and labor cheap, the
existence of terrace systems "raises questions about
mobilization 'of labor and the social organization
production" (Netting 1968: 3; see also Barlett 1980: 554 who
mentions the issue of compulsion). While the terracing of
slopes in a populated hilly region may not have been the kind
of project necessarily entailing centralized organizatton-anc
support,it was an activity which demanded cooperation ,or
singleness of purpose within a community that applied this
kind of special treatment to its environs (Spencer and Hale
1961: 2). Such cooperation has been demonstrated by Ron for
the construction of terraces surrounding springs in the Judean
Hills. He writes: "Each spring-irrigated terrace area and
irrigation system was built as a complete unit designed. in
advance, taking into account the size of the irrigable area"
(I 966: Ill). While, the terraces which Ron has studied surely
do not derive in their present form from the early Iron Age,
the dynamics of such terraced areas would seem to demand a
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control has been outlined above. Chref among its values is"
control. of • • runoHand •the 'increase iindePJ:~~futts~o:~ge:
water 'penetration that ' it '. provides.·'iThe"impt1rtancexof,tfl
capabilities' can be made ,dear' by, recaUingtwo 'observati
about theclimate of· theHighlands.;,iFirst,the>concentra
of the Highlands' rains in a shortrsea:son and
consequently 'high intensity' resurt.. insignificant 'i. rates
runoff. Between 12 and 38 percent av
able rainwater is lost to agriculture as runoff. (See ",hnVip5'/'{
Ch.4 §A.5.) While farming communities can do nothing
crease the intensity of rainfall ,which their lands re(:eive;;"i/'
terracing provides a way of significantly reducing the amount'
of losses to runoff. Similarly, the increased penetration
rainwater which terracing makes possible is a
advantage in a seasonal climate where the soil ordinari
carries no water reserves from one growing season
next. Terraced hill slopes will experience a
replenishment of ground water supplies and thus be rendered's
less vulnerable to the vagaries of the rainfall regime. both of
these contributions of terracing to water conservation
to increase the stability and the productivity of agriculture,
Such benefits, moreover, are observable in the vear-to-vear
operation of an agricultural system and appear as oositrve
gains in crop yields and drought resistance. This contrasts
with the gains of soil conservation which are primarily,
preventive in nature. It is in their role in the water balance
of Highlands' agriculture that terraces could more plausibly
be viewed as a minimum threshold for agricultural activity.
"The art of terracing," writes Davis in his study of hill
country dry farming, "made agriculture more dependable in a
land of varying resources" (1981: 9). Yet even viewed from
this perspective terraces are no necessary prior condition for
agricultural settlement, though they ·do appear to offer a
great adaptive advantage in the uncertain
environment. The character of the population landscape 'of
the early Iron Age does not warrant the conclusion that the
advantage of increased reliability offered by terracing had
become compelling at this time, even if i the necessary, input
of labor could have been mustered.' Under different
conditions that would have made stable productivity a more
desirable and essential goal, the construction of terraces for
the purpose of water conservation would be a vital feature of
Highland agricultural systems.
It might be possible to venture beyond this conclusion if
one could be more certain. about the dating ," of
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CHAPTER EIGHT
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A. Introduction
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was possible. is only 'the beginning of the inquiry about the
place of such a rotation in fhe·agricolturalsysfem as a whole.
The underdeveloped state of "our understanding of the
dynamics ofJegume rotation under Mediterranean conditions
is .noRelp in this respect. The total picture is not so dismal
that a system of green. rotation in the Highlands should be
ruled out altogether, as La Bianca does for the Transjordan
for example (1982:21), though the probability that legumes
played a significant role in early iron Age agriculture is low.
Certain conditions may have worked to enhance this
probability. White opens up one inviting avenue in this re-
spect when he ties the adoption of partial legume rotation to
increased demand for grains. He writes:
The alternation fallow - winter grain - legume - spring
grain makes an appreciable addition to the annual output
of grain. It is significant that in Europe after the decay
of Roman power and the reversion from an urban
civilization making heavy demands on bread-wheat for
town consumption, there was a return to the old crop and
fallow system over most of Europe (l970b: 122).
Strong encouragements to the adoption of a legume rotation -
::>1 the demand for bread grains or animal fodder - may have
ly cemented a more important place for a green rotation.
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)f The same problem of data limitations beleaguers attempts
Jt to specify the broader pattern of crop rotation in which any
)s fallow system played a part. One must agree with Barrois:
ts "One cannot prove ••• any methodical attempt at crop
s, rotation for the ancient epoch" (1939, 1: 312). Yet it is
~
worthwhile opening this question just to take note of the
:t possibilities of and constraints on broader systems of
st agricultural rotation, especially the relationship between
\t summer and winter cultivation. Relying upon contemporary
.e practice in Palestine, Gustav Dalman has paid considerable
a attention to the two types of cropping arrangements which
It the seasonal climate prompted in the region (1932, 2: 130-
Ir 136). Since grains and most legumes demand significant
s, quantities of water for the greatest period of their growth,
.f while crops like chick. peas and sesame only need a moist
e ground for the germination of the seed and demand only
II meager quantities of moisture for maturation, dry-season and
n wet-season cultivation patterns have emerged. As Dalman
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1 2 3 4 5
I go I CD CEJ I ITl@
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Year
1 2 3 4 5
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Q F C F C F C S C F C F C C 5
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CHAPTER NINE
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A. Introduction
HE two most prominent characteristics of the
climatic regIme of Highland Canaan shape the
most vital pair of objectIves for the establish-
ment of stable agriculture: risk spreading and
labor optimization. The seasonal character
of the Highlands' climate and the climatically determined
agriculural year contrasts with the aseasonal demand for food
and produces periods of labor shortage as well as of
underutilization of labor. Under these circumstances one of
the priority objectives of agricultural communities is to
optimize labor, balancing demand and availability throughout
the agricultural year. The demographic characteristics of the
Highland settlements - their small size and instability -
amplifies the importance of strategies which find their place
in Highland agricultural systems in response to this aim or
contribute to Its achievement. Secondly, the variability of
the climatic regime, especially precipitation, necessitates
risk spreading, the distribution of a community's energies
across as broad as possible a spectrum of variably productive
agricultural and other pursuits. Diversification of subsistence
means is the chief strategy for spreading risk (Ruthenberg
1976: 25). As well as being a function of the relative diversity
of the environment, the ability to diversify depends largely
upon the availability of labor. In this and in other ways
labor-optimizing and risk-spreading objectives are closely
related so that strategies elected in line with one sometimes
facilitate but often run counter to the achievement of the
other. Together, these two objectives are manifest in a
characteristic structuring of work in the fields, land use, and
social institutions.
B. Work in the Fields
While agricultural operations traditionally associated with
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... '
IronAgesmeltingtechnologywasbl~!'!let"yj.toft,(ot·;I'Wt
it"on") which ,even J.wben'(:old..worl<ed;~sW~i#1poor:isub$."
for' bronze'"(Maddin. MUhly,.andWheeler;1.9Z7: J 24) io"t
of J hardness, ductility, and .ability .... to/maintain;·shar
(Waldbaum 1978:· 69). The utility;;of iron matches
surpasses that of · . bronze vcrdy.ewhensesubject to. v
techniques. of ironworking': which •serve 'ito ; Increas
strength, name1y: carburization ("steeling"), quenching,"
tempering (see Stech-wheeler etal.198h 245-247 for;;;~,
technical description of ironworking).Thusthe appearanteit~~4'
iron plow points is itself not as important as the •appearanees
of iron plowpoints which have been intentionally worked i't(y
render them superior to their bronze counterparts.;;a~
On this question experts in ancient metal1urgyadmit~~
present data are inconclusive and that no certain deter~
rnination can be made of the date at which the productio~;!
of iron became the manufacture of steel. In thewordsof: one'"
group of specialists: "we do not yet have sufficient data to
make a general characterization of the adoption of iron and;
the development of iron making technologies in the ancient!
eastern. Mediterranean and Near i.ast" (Stech-Wheeler eta~;
1981: 268). The deficiency of data extends to all types:
literary, art ifactual (including not only iron implements, but
facilities for the production and working of iron) j30/,and
geological (sources of iron) and is somewhat exaggerated by
the wealth of analytical tools now available to further our
knowledge of this crucial transition. The use of both .optical
and electron scanning microscopes for interpreting metal
microstructures and methods of elemental analysis enable
researchers to determine the percentage of tlncontentof
bronze and carbon content of iron, to differentiate between
intentionally and accidentally carburized artifacts, to'
determine whether an implement has . been subject
quenching and/or tempering, and to assess something of the
level of technical skill achieved by the fabricator of any
particular article (Stech-Wheeler 1981: 247).
At present the results from this analysis are admittedly
inadequate and subject to a high sampling error because of
the small size of the sample upon which they are based.
However, they are beginning to contribute to the picture ofa
gradual and sloping transition from bronze to iron as the
"working metal" (Snodgrass 1980: 336 "iron used to make
functional parts of the real cutting and .piercing' implements
that form the basis of early technology") in Canaan drawn;
from other data, namely the comparative distributionot
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ti()pl<in~r Th~, Jjighlands. of Canaan
v:
otherwise escape. Butzernotesthat the scratching ofthenarq:',1
h~llps dguar9 '.' agains~ th~ dep!etiodn. of 'lorgdanic matter,~~,'f
e SOl an against erOSIOn since It or man y oes not exposri
the more easily eroded B-horizon to the effects of tfle, I
weather(l974: 64). The very use to which this scratch plowi.~ j
adapted, It seems to me, restricts the .exterrt to which~t~ ~.'
efficiency can be improved by increasing the hardness of it~;
plowpoint /33/. lyloreover, the sp~ed of the traction plo~ J
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supply .ThefJnani~()ldandseqlJ<;ntiaFsetofoperationsm
edin harvFs:ti'ng{m~e~it~e'rno~tdt!j;~nsivetmaj~r,o'
Of.·••·.tf1e.• • :<ag:icll1tur~l'ye~r..::'~pendI'1g:'iuP(;)n:tthe.';'(:e
plantinp' .tarrning;c0O"lrnunities·maYSP~tld;:as: major/po .
the. hpt, :dry:summep harvestingia;series;of.ripening'ic
fields (Turkowski'1969: .'105). As 'with. the first acts of
agricultural year"timing is imponantwiththe Jast,th
not as decisive. Attending to the ripening of cereals is not
plowing and planting are, a matter of great anxiety regard
the weather. If .the crop has developed .well throughout j~:
stormy rainyseason,ifespeciaHyit has. benefited from' ' ..
"latter rains," then the constancy of summer will advance ... ,
ripening process '. without obstruction. Yet for a maximuM':'
yield grain •.•• must: be harvested at aparticularmoment.-,;:D
Cereals shouldnotbeharvestedtooearly,and ripe grains';
cannot star forever in the fields. The standing grain coll.I(f1
"lodge," rendering cutting all the more arduous, or the ears 01.:
grain might shatter if left in the field too long beyond the' "
point of ripeness, resulting in the loss of many seeds. The:
particular moment for maximal harvests may be fairly br0a.?;
around three weeks for each stand, but it is real nonethelesS;:
On top of this, the sheer subsistence importance of the cereal
crops lent a sense of urgency to the process of ingatherlng., :'<1
As pointed out above, the practice of staggered sowing
facilitates a timely harvest since it spreads the maturation of
the crops across a temporal window, though some
late-planted crops will catch up due to the warmth of early
summer. Also contributing to the leveling of the labo~
demand of the harvest are the variable ripening times of
variously situated fields. This phenomenon is unambiguously
noticeable when the maritime plain and its branched vaHeyS
are compared with the hilly regions (Dalman 1932, 2:6;
Barrois 1939, 1: 313; Amiran 1962: 109), but it is also exper":
ienced within smaller regions of the Highlands thernselvess
Turkowski notes that crops sown in intermontane valleys and
other sheltered areas mature some three or four weeks
before the major portion of the Judean Hills. The particular
mix of cereals sown may spread harvesting and level labor,
demand, too, most notably given the differing maturation
rates of wheat and barley, the latter of which ripens about a
month before the former (Turkowski 1969: 103; Zohary 1982:
76). These different rates are reflected in the Gezer calendar
where the period of harvesting barley, "yrh gsr s'rrn," is listed
first among the harvesting periods, and also by the customatif
offerings of barley at Passover and wheat at the Feasts of
Weeks.
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agricUlturalopetations~'These/rainy?d~ys
'offer
leisure()rfoJ;:.~()l"kaw~y.
f rofO;~e fielcfs.'JLi •.. ••. • • •..
r•.• ·.0rle·••.·ot.i~.~i@ajor:il~~n:trast$cPetYleenJtlt::different p
oittle Ka.grkultural\Year<restsljn?the.·•.·q~aH'tyofthe]
demandedor~itoputjt. anottlec war, ,the degree of attenti6ti
required>from the community in' order to carry out ..~
various tasks. Some crops require periods of intensea.~?
sustainedeffort, a . more or Jless continuous application of
labor over a period of time, while the growing of others .ls
accomplished in a more •extensive and less concentrated
fashion entailing cnly :intermittent labor applications. T~
opposition, which is usually most obvious when comparing
agricultural systems of drastically different intensities (see,
e.g., Wadde1L1972: 218; Netting 1968: ll9),isalsoappare
within the. diversified system of, the Highlands. The contrast
rtt
between 'the fig and grape harvests is especially marked in
this . respect. So, too, is the .contrast between the
intermittent, albeit arduous labor of the plowing and planting
season and the fast-paced, concentrated conduct of the grain
harvest. More than just a measure of labor demand over the
run oithe agricultural year, this contrast provides an index
of the quality of life enjoyed by Highland's communities. The
social .i. fabric of these communities is woven both during
periods of intense (and perhaps communal) preoccupation
with specific. agricultural tasks (viz., the harvest festivals)
and less intense periods that permit participation in the
ongoing social and political life of the community. It is
difficult to treat this "quality of labor" index as an absolute
measurement; its importance would become apparent were it
to be employed as a relative measure contrasting the
agricultural system of one period .with another, say the early
Iron Age with the period of economic growth under Jeroboam
II and Uzziah,
Two ways in which the structure of work in the fields can
be interpreted as responding to both -Iabor-optirnizlng and
risk-spreading needs merit note. The premier strategy of
staggered sowing not only spreads the risks originating in the
variable environment, but is well accommodated to limited
supplies of both animal and human labor• Its advantages with
respect of labor availability are all the more apparent during
the harvest when the labor-demand curve peaks. Risk
spreading through the diversification of crops - wheat
alongside of barley, vine and tree crops alongside of grains -
also helps spread labor out across the full run of the year,
dampening the seasonal contrast. There can be little doubt
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that full advantage was taken of the fit of tree and vine into
the agricultural calendar dominated by grains.
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goocf .;.i.ncf!<:;~t9('i~(~.th!~;pr~.cariousness .lies.lnthenotoriollS
Vj;l riab~~;MI~lcf~'¥Y!'.,lll.Qlf;lll ,,Qf;l~· •.H ighlands'.• crops•.·.• experie
(e"c~ptipnt<lllQs~gr9.wll;oQ ·th~.1ifl)i~ecf al1)ountof,irrig
land a r~ fre~rirofl) yield;flu<:;tuatlo 0). precise . dataonyield~;
achieved. in. the ancient Highlands would be a boonX;tQ·'
reconstructing.the~griculturaleconomy. Such data·are,
non-existentj-unfortunately, Archaeology hasIn fact beguhtQ
recover rernains .of agricultural plants and to investigate
vestiges of facilities and fields, but yields are one aspect of
agricultural systems which leave no traces in the soiL(see
Allan 1972: 123). No economic records - ostraca, inscriptions
- illuminate. the yielding characteristics of early Iron Age
crops or cultivation techniques. Estimates for grain yields in
various locations in the ancient Mediterranean world have
been based on a. variety of sources, ancient and
contemporary. Helchelheim,'. for example, relies upon the
talmudic report (b. Ketub, l12a) of a five-fold grain yleld.In
ancient Palestine (193&: 12&-129). Varro reports a grain yield
of approximately ten- to fifteen-fold in Italy (De Re Rustica
I:44:l).;lv!ostinteresting are the calculations· made by
Mayerson based .on the 7th century C.E. economic papyri
recovered at the Negeb site of Nessana, "We can safely say,'!
he wrrtes, " that the yield of wheat at Nessana during the
ninth indiction in the seventh century A.D. was 7-fold; of
barley, &-fold and more." Mayerson regards these yields as
representative of a satisfactory-to-good year and suggests
that yields in the best years might go as high as 10- or
20-fold (1960: 18-19).
The absolute productivity of sown cereals is, of course, not
as important to the sustenance of a community as the yield
per. unit land which also includes the factor of the rate at
which seed is sown. In his calculations of the subsistence
potential of the environs of Gezer, Webley relies upon the
area's contemporary traditional agriculture which produces
long-term yields of barley of 420 kg/hectare on rendzina soil
and 705 kg/hectare on Mediterranean brown forest soil (I 972:
175). The lowest average present-day yields on the marginal
grass lands of Messenia are reported as 900 kg/hectare of
wheat and 750 kg/hectare of barley (Wersch 1972: 1&5).
The estimation of yields is a necessary component of any
attempt to achieve quantitative indicators of the economy of
the andentHighlands. "Average yields" are deceptive,
however, and obscure the fact that harvest sizes suffer
tremendous variability in this environment. Antoun provides
an observed record of grain production in traditional
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moulded by the objectives of risk spreading and labor op-
timizing can, be displayed••'The zonation of crops is a .response
to the desire to make the most of available labor, but at the
same time it .suits the spreading of risk due to the variegation
of the environment. which offers aplentitude of distinct
farming niches. The cultivation of a fairly broad spectrum of
garden, field, and orchard crops enhances the ability to
spread risk. Besides significant dietary contributions, high on
the list of the benefits of some crops - the tree crops in
particular - is their storability. The importance of this char-
acteristic is made prominent in the light of the highly vari-
able yields of all of Highland agriculture. This circumstance
also pushes farming communities to expand production
beyond the needs of a single year - placing an even greater
burden upon a limited labor resource.
Both the Hebrew Bible's terminology for grazing land and
livestock and the variability of yields point to a prominent
place for pastoral pursuits in Highlands subsistence. Exactly
how prominent remains an important unanswered question.
The indispensability of pastoralism lies in its contribution to
risk spreading - usually at little cost to the agricultural
workforce. The complementarity of agriculture and pastoral-
ism in the demographically unstable and environmentally
variegated and variable Highlands, the form and dynamics of
their relations, and their relative importance through time all
demand further exploration. The intersection between pastor-
alism and agriculture in the context of the transformation of
the settlement map of the early Iron Age Highlands - the
growth of settlement sites and population - may indeed hold a
key to answering the question of how subsistence challenges
played a part in the emergence of Israel.
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ef-sociaj structlJring;Pl\"esented}h~re;wiUbe
than,;definitlve,}t:rlir"roring;';the.0iyet;un~erde~elopedi
social,scientificinquiryi~toancient Israe.L:;m;;; ;y,; iii'
. Recent; ·anthropologiCa.f';.;;~ork;;;on. ,xruralu;societies
highlightedtheimpcll"tance;:of;.the·house.hold;as; thein:
functional . e lement.(seeBarleU·.• ·.l980:.553..;56J).Orlove;:a:n'tl
Custred ;have •focused on the ;household,;as the unitl~!;<
economic activity ..and ,the.locusofdecision making ': with
regard to·· production,consumption, and exchange in the
peasant societies of the Andes (1980: 37). Sahlins makes-mucl;
the same point about tribal economics which he' labels Hthe
familial mode of production."uProduction is a dornestic
function," he writes.!'.The.decisions are taken with a view to
domestic . • needs; production cis .geared to.vfarnil ial require-
ments" (1968: 75). Similarly, Brush. notes', that it is "not the
village as a unit, but rather the individual household that is
the actual user ofresources and.producer of-subsistencez.Arid
in most traditional economies,the 'household is the signif-
icant unit of both production and consumption" (1977: 69).
There ., can be little.: doubt that these are appropriate
descriptions of the functioning of the smallest social unit in
early Israel, the !'bet Jab":.(seeAndersen 1969; de Geus 1976:
133-136; Gottwald 1974b: 285-292). The "bih Jab" wasvan
"extended family," composed of two or more nudearfamilies
united by consanguinousties(Murdock ·'1949: 23). Gottwald
defines it as the "functional living unit gathered around a
family head at any given moment and it was, in a narrower
and more definable sense, the lineage - i.e., all the biological
descendants of a known common ancestor." He suggests as
well that this lineage may extend through five generations
(I979b: 285-287). Four generations are all that appear at the
same time in biblical accounts, however (in Josh 7 Achan is a
member of thethirdgef\eration of "b~t Zi:ldi ,revs. 18], but the
text also mentions Achan's children [vs, 24]. Only three
generations ever take active roles in narratives. Gideon's
story is instructive. Gideon,': the "least" in his "bet 'ab," is
obviously a mature and able adult, a leader of military
actions (Jud 7) and fuU participant in agricultural work (6.1 O.
Yet the inhabitants of the town whose cultic site Gideon
destroys appeal to Joashhis father as the family head and
bearer of authority over his son (vs, 30). Gideon himself is
accompanied into battle by his own first-born, Jether, who is
"still a youth" (8.20).
The features of Gideon's portrait (as well as those in the
case of Saul in 1 Sam 9.1-4, 1.1.5) provide a clear indication
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to .render .thei''b~t}~bl',\less.tt1anasta~le,;unit.Qne)()bviou~
means JostaQilit}'sothe;;la<:;/)ie¥emel"lt\(),flar&ebovseh()19f§iA.~Ji;
is ; esp~ially) ;lIOreliable.:,rew;families;readJ" ideaL:size:high .
morta!itycrates, nip""t:hem,,ln;the\.btKi.,o[he. ;;highmonalitj';
experienced In the ancient W'9rld}Jmakes the joint survival'of .
siblings of three or more. generations indlrectJine otdesce!"lt
for one sex {or<other survivalcontingenciesneeded.to
elaborate cornplexxhcusehojd .• structures) relatively .rare
events" (Burch 1972: 92 t quoted by . Stager,. forthcoming).
Angel's .work on ,pOPlllation .) In' itheancient.eastern ) Med::;
Iterranean ssupplies. some vital demographic statistics Which
buttress this assessment. His work involves the exam...
ination of the PUbic bonesofJemale human skeletons in order,
to determine fecundity and of cernetery.populatlons in order
to estimate the. percentage of .infant and child deaths. Based
upon data from Greece, Angelfinds4.J.birthst but only 1.9
survivors per female in the early Iron Age (1972: 94-95, 97).
These rates win support for the belief that few extended
families reached the size that might have lent them a degree
of stability. This instability.in household size would mean
that periodically an extended .family would lose its breadth
and become, de facto, a nuclear family, returned once again
to the beginning of its domestic cycle and most likely unable
to supply its own labor needs. Even the labor supply of a
good-sized "bet 'ab" could be hamstrung by numerous vi-
cissitudes: injury, disease,; the loss of members to early
death. In the words of Marshall Sahlins, "the small domestic
labor force ••• is often sorely beset" (1968: 77). It will not be
infrequent that certain households experience a shortage
while others have a surplus of labor relative to the demands
of agricultural work which tend to remain more level than
actual subsistence needs (Brush 1977: 104).
Along with the waxing and waning of household size and
therefore viability vis-a-vis labor supply, other charac-
teristics of agricultural. systems in the Highlands limit the
autonomy of individual extended families and propel them
into larger associations. The seasonal fluctuations of labor
demand stand out most prominently in this respect.
Reciprocal labor exchanges probably helped to soften the
impact of seasonal labor shortages within households, es-
pecially at the time of the intensive grape harvest and the
cereal harvest, .when collective labor COUld. also take
advantage of variable. ripening times. The joint use of
communally constructed threshing floors and. grape and ol-
ive processing facilities represents an extension of this
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Hppkins- Ihe.Highlands otCanaen
(t~~I.;)2",,)3}.In.the cas~ot.an<:ientJsI"~¢lit..~~.tJ"I~!'rniSp
tJ"I9l~p~ar.~.to. p~~el>cl~iq,q()ldiflggr.~p+oft<;~ain.
•
CCi.t\:gori~s.·'j~f:lapd••·. pn~ ,t~n<:tioll .£o.f.•.•. thefj'1
respect '.' .is. .dearly:evidencedin ;;ithei;l1e.~re\\(·il,eiJ;l
recoveryof.landori.theprevention·ofthe·(ali~nati()p:(')f
from. within'~mBpaoa'Lboundaries (Ruth4.:3"f, N um27.4
On the other hand, there is .noreferencetoither~g
process of distributing land to the families that constrt
the "miSpal)a." The numerous accounts of. the process nY
traditional Near Eastern villages painta< picture of.i,~
preliminary division of land according to quality andthen'j~
parcelling out of segments in accordance with the numberot
eligible . "bet 'abOt" .within the "miSpaba" (see also Ada~
1972: 4). While the evidence for the existence of a commu~~
land-tenure system in pre-monarchical Israel is by no meOJ)~
conclusive, there is sufficient evidence to lendfuI"th~~
credence to the view of the "miSpal)a" as a vital functioning.
sodality in constituting as well as in protecting the life of the
ancient Israelite "bet 'ab."
Just as one is forced to qualify .the autonomy of the"b~~
'ab" and give considerable import to the j encompassing
"miSpal)a" in achieving the agricultural objectives ofrisIs
spreading and labor optimization, so, too, the "mgpal)a" is nQ
social isolate, and the boundaries of its circumference-are
not impenetrable. Beyond the orbit of this association,
however, when one enters the realm of the third level of
Israelite social organization, the "sebet ," the concreteness
and tangibility of social relations weakens. According tod\:
Geus' definition, the Israelite tribes were "regional alliance~'l
of. "essentially independent" "mi§pal)ot" which retained' the
real soclal. power (1976: 156). Such an understanding ofth(j
tribe as the least stable and substantial of the basicIsraelite
social forms .represents a great divergence from
preponderant view of previous decades. in. which aocarent
"weakness" of the tribes was attributed to their status -as
vestiges from purely nomadic days (Gottwald 1979b: 293-294;
de Geus 1976: 144). It is based on the current anthropological
discussion of the nature of the tribe and its place, if any, in
the evolution of societies (Fried 1967: 154-175; Dole 1968;
Service 1971: 99-132). Without directly entering this debate
or rehearsing the essential characteristics of the Israelite
tribe, it can be noted that it is this stance vis-a-vis tribes and
tribalism thar. permits one to ask how .. tribes formed and
functioned as impermanent "regional alliances" of"mgpal)ot~'
from the standpoint of agricultural subsistence.
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enYlr~n~eirts,Uas/tGO~w~ld;~igh~1}'
.• ·cleimS.j~,·.his
agc;i~s!;~~the .,';Ylik.:!ih()<>d»"()f.,the';;chiefdom.i;;Jas)s·a
orgal'liiatiori;ill.ji,earlylSra~l; H9Z9b:323), itis,thepr
environfl1enta~rl.lncc:rt~~y~which ·is.decisive • • ifl>d.e;e
whether .thi~!:mix wooldor.> would •.• not . provide, fo
sufficiency. 'r}t 'is almost a ' nc:cessary .. presuppositj()
continuedsettledexisten<:e in. the Highlands that . one
munity or "mi~paba" <be able . to call upon another difl
entlysituated ."mgpaba"for relief in times of crisisa.ndth~.~.
some social .: links . . . be' . . maintained for this ·.eventl1a~~~rt
Given the less tangible nature of tribal social 1inkages'tf\:~C:
appears to be 'more justification for ~iewingthetribc:,i.P
distinctio fl to the "mHlpaQa," as a crisis. management cOfltc:%~
rather than one marked by regular reciprocities. On theotli~r'
hand, . such normal phenomena as . variation .in harvr~"t
schedules between relatively proximate' villages would Hay~
provided some regular opportunities for .reciprocal exchange~
of labor. Other similarly important but not crucial means of
maintaining Iinkages for the eventuality of subsistence crisis
surely', existed: "Social i links with those outside of one's
immediate terrain are the ultimate insurance against. fa m'"
ine" (Colson I 98(): (23). One particularly important kind' of
social linkage may well have facilitated the operation of the
''food bank' on . the .hoof ," "MiSpal)ot'" would have mixed
agricultural and pastoral pursuits in varying proportions
depending especially upon the productive circumstances of
their territories, and these differentials would have promoted
exchange. An increase of livestock beyond the ability of onE:
community to absorb could have been sold, bartered,or
shared through the cultic celebrations that followed lambing
season in the spring. Direct evidence for this kind of
exchange cannot be hoped for, but It should be consider~
probable that the search for specific archaeological evidence
for regional' exchange will eventually be rewarded (Frick
1979: 242-248).
Whether or not clarity is gained about the formation and
functioning of the larger tribal entities from a considerafion
of the demands of agricultural subsistence, there can be no
doubt that the relationship between "bet fab" and "mHlpaM"
has been shaped by the need to spread risk and optimize labor
in Highland agriculture. The small size and relative
instability of the "bet 'ab" does not. match the regular
agricultural labor demands in a way that produces anything
but a Ilmitedautcnomy; The seasonal flow of labor demand as
well as the occasional need for larger quanta of labor and the
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SUBSISTENCE CHALLENGES
AND THE EMERGENCE OF ISRAEL
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Al\;D THE EMERGENCE OF ISRAEL
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1.T()t~k¢~d~~ntageoi~n\'ironmental diversity
2. .Tobuifer;the variability of. the environment and to
cop~~ith ,~ts impac:ton agricultural subsistence
3. To proyide for the total labor needs of the village and
indiyidual cultivating household
In considering this constellation of challenges and the
strategies elected to meet them, again and again a glimpse is
caught of the essential status of the social organization of
agricultural subsistence. To imagine an appropriate picture of
farming in the ancient Highlands, the hands-in-the-dirt
features of agricultural operations must be sketched in the
midst of the social fabric in which these operations were
organized . and their'costs, benefits, and liabilities were
distributed. The challenges to be faced in Highland
agricultural settlement permitted no social isolation for
household or village, but impelled these into larger circles of
social relationships. It is only through these latter, and not
through the aegis of some technological breakthrough, that
some measure of subsistence security could be achieved.
This conclusion about the prominence of the social
dimension of agricultural subsistence security provides a good
vantage point from which to gauge the implications of this
study of farming in the early Iron Age Highlands of Canaan
for the diachronic question of the emergence of Israel. It may
be possible to understand the transformation of the
settlement map of the early Iron Age Highlands and the
evolutionect .the larger social body of Israel as a process
propelled by' the attempt of a growing population of settlers
to meet the challenges of agricultural subsistence in the
Highlands! (compare Weippert 1979: 33). With the breakdown
of Late.. Bronze Age society, the highlands were left devoid
of strong polity and empty of all but a small number of
settlements•. :; The low . population density, the disruption in
social. institutions, and the instability of the period
contributed. to the structuring of a subsistence system
situatedat"the' more extensive end of the· agricul-
tural-pastoralspectrum••The non-nucleated population of the
Highlands:<::onstituted"a greater fraction of the whole,
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~~~i<lf~hs:~n~k!he.,~~ld~~~ess;~Ci~dETings ;may'preser~e'for
'th~.:t~Cifl,Y'k'ti:;fCi~lit~~ttc9m~uei~~!Y~~i;~~rll'latiOl'\C'rWa ,.
P(js5~b~ei'cours~s:'of/Cl¢ti?if€~pe~0~h~:~rt1g~le;f?r '~t1bsi~ .•,
fcrl!s;a~;itYlnost J'slir~lY:;(fi?J·'Wittt"gr~at'f~e<J~el1CY"inJth~;., •. ../,;~
lrailAge Highlands.; G(jls()n:lis~s.Ithe'!stor age and transll1issi()'if '.,
of • informCitiorr'about. whatwe..'•. ~ClUfClminefoodsll asess~~tia.~;;,
to survival in a high-riskenvironmel1t(I9&0:2I).';'~·
preservation of the wilderness- traditions with . their constant
atte~tion to unusual sources of. sustenance,' may well;' hiive
been a response to this priority.:SimUarly, the migration,?!
Israel's ancestors throughout Canaan:anddown into Egypt
presents a paradigm fot-fleeing famine in the Highlands. It;ls
notewo~hythat Egypt is n()tthe sole locus of recourse dt.rrin~
crises' of bread ,and" pasture"b\1t;that- Philistine'land: also
figures, prominently'. (Geo 26),:3., refugedoser to home •.• wit~
which social relations apparently could 'be cultivated. The
high view of work that is part of the creation epic of Gen2-i3 .
(the human creature is placed in the garden "to till it and
keep it") fits very well with the importance of meeting the
Highlands "villagestneeds for ." agriculturallabor.Whether~t~e
work ethic so pronounced inproverbialHterature has its ro?ts
in this need is also ""orthy bfinvestigation. Proverbs such,as.
12.}l,;15.19,' 20.4, and 2&.19 make specific referencet?
agricultural labors in this regard. Motivations to diligence;
however, are appropriate in < any" scene of agricultural
intensification. The maxims of Proverbs may have had their
provenance in the monarchical period when the royal
bureaucracy had a real interest in discouraging idleness. - .J::;
Beyond the peri<>dandliterature of earlier' Israel :th~
picture of agricultural life' presented here is invaluable; for
d1artingthe trajectoryof>Israelitesociety and the changes
brought about by the formation of the monarchy. Early lrait
Age society was very much a transitional society .. o,ne Whic~
occupied a quite short;;albeitmeaningful,period-in.' Israelite
history as a whole. The challenges which characterized its
agricultural subsistence systems and the strategies elected to
achieve them did not remain altogether valid for monarchical
times. There" is ample evidence of a. disjuncture in the
agricultural life of households, villages, and tribes that owes
its existence to the different set, of agricultural challenges
that stemmed from the creation and maintenance of a royal
institution. Twopriodties;. of "' an;';" agricultural economy,
dominated by the, monarchical state ;stand» out.?<The
rnonarchylsprincipal,•• preoccupe'tion-withellve oil, wine,and
cereals "as commodities for taxation and trade (e.g.,IKgS
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5.25) at the expense of other crops and pasture land for herds
and flocks stands in opposition to the village-based
subsistence objectives of risk spreading and optimizing labor
through the diversification of subsistence means. Secondly,
the self-explanatory demand of the royal house for regular
levy conflicts with the realities of the variable environment
of Highland subsistence to an extent that is hard to
exaggerate. Together, royal pressures for specialization and
regularity provide a clear indication of the nature of the
impact of the formation of the monarchy on the agricultural
systems of the early Iron Age Highlands (see Hopkins 1983).
The extent to which the monarchy succeeded in advancing,
blocking, or displacing altogether the characteristic objec-
tives of the pre-monarchical period in the creation of new
agricultural systems demands separate study. It is certain,
however, that this change occurred and that the tension
between the nature of agricultural subsistence in the period
of Israel's emergence and in the monarchical period itself
contributed greatly to the shape of Israelite and Judean
history and to the literature that emerged from it.
275
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEXES
MAPS
Notes to Chapters One de Two
279
Notes to Chapters Two, Four A five
280
Notes to Chapters Five & Six
NOTES TO ChAPTER VI
Population
281
·Notes to Chapter
282
Notes to Chapters Six, Eight &, Nine
indicator of the village average and suggest that only large samples will
be accurate{l971:21O).
25 These radii can be determinedaceurately only by .surface rreas-
urement.Measurements'ofdistances }'as the crow flies" underestimate
tl1e, trued~stances, because,.of .'•. .• the.mountainous . topography. 'Ap-
proximations of the ;radius oLexc1usive use can be made by measuring
the distancedrom-eaeh site-to its nearest neighbor in three different
directions and halving the average. See the method as employed by
MacDonald and Simpson (I 972:127).
26 Assuming an annual yield of 750kg of grain per hectare and an
annual consumption of 41t0kg per person, planting only 30 percent of the
terri tory. enclosed by. a 2km radius has the potential of producing two
times the annual requirement of grains for a population numbering the
three hundred persons at the top of the estimate scale for 'Ai, Broshi,
however, reports an average annual consumption of grain about half the
figure used in this estimate, a rate of consumption which would halve
the.rpercentage of territory needing to be brought into production
(19&0:7).
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Notes to Chapter Nine
286
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EXODUS
3.5 237 RUTH
22.5 206, 256, 273 2.3 235
22.6 207, 256 2.23 242
22.10-13 256,273 3.2 226
22.14-15 255,273 4.3-6 258
23.10-11 194·5 17 235
LEVITICUS 1 SAMUEL
1.7ff 118 8.14 235
18 273 9.1-4 252
19.19 196 9.12 257
10 237
NUMBERS 10.5 237
13.20 204 7.17 237
27.4, 11 257 11.5 252
27.14 253 13 237
35.3 236 14.32 247
17.18 247
DEUTERONOMY 17.34 118
8.8 241, 243, 285n.41 18.& 11&
&.9 285n.41 20.6 257
16.9 225 23.1 226
19.5 284n.32 25.2 249
22.11 247 28.24 206
22.9 196 29 257
24.20 231
28.38-40 235 2 SAMUEL
32.14 247 6.6 226
32.32 174 7.8 236
14.30-31 235
JOSHUA 17.28 242
7.18, 24 252 17.29 247
13-18 259 23.11-12 235
14.4 236
15.5-11 259 1 KINGS
17.14-18 117 4.10 118
18.11-20 259 5.25 275
19.10-14 235 7.2 118
10.17,21 118
JUDGES 18.23 118
6.3-6 226 21.2 235
6.11,30 252 21.3 253
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Index of Biblical References
JEREMIAH
2.7 235
8.2 203
9.9 236
9.21 203
16.4 203
152 23.10 236
174 25.33 203
25.37 236
1 CHRONICLES 29.5 235
27.29-31 250 31.40 174
41.8 242
NEHEMIAH 46.21 206
5.11 235 48.33 236
JOB EZEKIEL
1.3 249 4.15 IJ8
20.7 203 12.10 81
31.40 242 19.12 81
39.10 214 21.3 118
38.20 174
PSALMS
65.13 236 HOSEA
83.11 203 2.14 IJ8
104.20 IJ8 13.7-8 118
PROVERBS JOEL
12.1I 274 l.Il 242
15.17 285n.41 l.I9, 20 236
15.19 274 2.22 236
20.4 274 2.24 232
22.13 IJ8
28.19 274 AMOS
1.2 236
CANTICLES 2.13 226
2.14 174 4.1 250
4.9 236
ISAIAH 6.4 206
1.8 228
5.2 228-229 MICAH
5.6 228,236 3.12 118
7.23,24, 25 236
9.18 IJ5 HABAKKUK
10.17-19 IJ5 3.17 174,206
16.8 174
16.10 236 MALACHI
25.10 205 6.30 206
27.3 96
28.23-29 196 LUKE
28.24 214 6.JJ 226,230
34.7 203 14.35 205
37.24 JJ8
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INDEX OF AUTHORS
316
Index of Authors
317
Index of Authors
318
Indexes of Authors and Places
INDEX OF PLACES
'Ai: 95-96, 140-142, 151-152, 157, 161, 163, 165, 166, 179, 183-84,
220, 253, 282n21
Arad: 95, 100
Beersheba, Tel: 100, 142
Beit Mitsim,Tell: 140, 142, 151, 153-155,222,231
Bethel: 140, 150, 151, 158, 163,231-232, 282n24
Bet Zur: 140, 162
Esdar, Tel: 140, 145, 159, 282n24
el-Farah, Tell: 142, 154, 158
el-Fal, Tel: 161, 220
Gezer: 98, 131-132, 230, 244
Gibeon: 97.225,229-230
Giloh: 140-143, 146,152, 159, 161, 185, 282n24, 284n36
Har Adir: 220, 281n16
HarashimcTel; 140, 159
Hazor: 95, 91,140,150-151,161, 281nl6
Hebron: 158
Hesban: 162,246, 249
Tel el-Hesi: 151
'Izbet Sartah: 140, 147, 151, 159, 169, 281n16, 282n24
Jerusalem: 91, 158, 186
Kufr aloMa: 19, 225
Kh. el-Marjameh: 91
Masos, Tel: 140-142, 145, 141, 149, 151, 154-155, 157, 159, 169,
282n21 .
Megiddo: 1.63
MevasseretYerushalayim; 176,.1113, 185
en-Nasbeh, Tel: 95~96, 140, 152, 161,.222
Qasile, Tell:.145
Qir i, Tell: 140, 281n16
Kh. Rabud: 158, 162
Kh. Radda~H4k151, 161-162, 169, 179, 185,220,253, 282n21
Kh. er-Ras; 284n37
Sahab: 149-150,
Sera, Tel: .145
Shechem: 145~146. 158
Shiloh: 1.40, 161, 169
Taanach:9S"'i'tiilOO•. l.'n.163,219
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS
320
Index of Subjects
321
Index of Subjects
322
· .Index of Subjects
323
E Judean Desert
p- East Samadan Hills
G Nablus Syncline
H Iron Hills
1 Menashe Plateau
J Mt Carmel
MAP 1
B
Adapted from Orni & Efrat (1971) 16. 54
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Megiddo
• ·Taanach
T. Farah
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• Shiloh
Kh. Raddana.........~e.thel.
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Gezer s (Mizpahr~i_Jib (Gibeon)
T. Hesban
T. el-Ful (GibeahY:.Jerusalem
Mevasseret ./' .G.loh <H:shbon>
VerushaJayim • I
Bethlehem
.Bet Zur
T. el:Hesi • Hebron
(Eglon) Kh.Rabud
T. Sera. T:B;itMi:sim
(Debir")
.Arad
Beer-sheba • .T. Masos
-r. Esdar
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