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63-506: [REDACTED] Look up IA , Ia , or ia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. IA , Ia , or ia may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Ia , an 1892 novelette by Arthur Quiller-Couch "Iä", a fictional word in the works of H. P. Lovecraft International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), which also goes by IA International Artists ,
126-511: A 1.8-million-year-old skull unearthed at Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia . After this discovery, co-author Dr Omry Barzilai concluded that different human species produced the two artifacts. This period has been dated to the years 250,000–45,000 BP. Fossils of Neanderthals and of Homo sapiens from this period have been discovered in Israel. The Homo sapiens remains found in Israel are
189-572: A Judean creation, although it incorporates many traditions (and, possibly, texts) from the Kingdom of Israel. As such, it describes the history of these two kingdoms, in the Iron Age, from a strictly Judean theological perspective and its historical account is biased, though it becomes relatively reliable from the 9th century onward. Many archaeological sites in Israel have yet to be excavated, but many have been surveyed by archaeologists on behalf of
252-576: A big nose. In June 2024, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) recently announced the discovery of a well-preserved shipwreck dating back 3,300 years. The wreck, found about 90 kilometers (55 miles) off Israel's Mediterranean coast at a depth of 1,800 meters (1.1 miles), contained hundreds of intact Canaanite jugs used for transporting wine, food oils, fruit, and other goods across the Mediterranean. The wooden ship
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378-474: A part of this Pharaoh 's effort to take control over Canaan. The Kingdom of Judah was relatively small—maybe 5,000 people in the 10th century BCE—and had been a vassal of Israel at least since the early 9th century, when the powerful Omride dynasty had taken over that kingdom, and until Israel's destruction by the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the late 8th century BCE. The Old Testament is mostly
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504-414: A ring of stone houses surrounding an inner yard where the livestock was kept. Gradually, as the settlement evolved, that space was filled up with houses. The composition of animal bones found in successive archaeological layers also displays change over time, reflecting the change in lifestyle – nomadic societies raise many sheep and goats and very little cattle . As the settlement process progressed,
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630-662: A site near the city of Holon , and a site located near kibbutz Evron . At the end of the Lower Paleolithic, between 400,000 and 250,000 BP, the Acheulo-Yabrudian complex emerged. The site near Lake Ram , in the Golan Heights , where the Venus of Berekhat Ram was discovered, probably belongs to this cultural horizon . This statue is considered, by some, to be the earliest artistic representation of
693-486: Is currently available, Chalcolithic civilizations may have spread from northern Israel to the south over several centuries during the first half of the 5th millennium BCE. Judging by evidence from the material culture, there seems to be no direct link between the Late Neolithic cultures and the early Chalcolithic cultures that replaced them in this region. The Chalcolithic period ended in Israel around 3,500 BCE with
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#1732772082703756-818: Is known today as the West Bank ). In this period the Sea Peoples invaded the countries along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, creating the Philistine city states along the seacoast of southwestern Canaan. Egypt lost its control of the land in the 12th century BCE – the exact date is currently being disputed, and this issue is closely linked to the Low Chronology / High Chronology dispute. According to Israel Finkelstein , this tendency of nomads to settle down, or of sedentary populations to become nomadic, when circumstances make it worth their while,
819-605: Is the period 3300–1200 BCE when objects made of bronze were in use. Many writers have linked the history of the Levant from the Bronze Age onwards to events described in the Bible . The Bronze Age and Iron Age together are sometimes called the "Biblical period". The periods of the Bronze Age include the following: The Late Bronze Age is characterized by individual city-states, which from time to time were dominated by Egypt until
882-428: Is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel , stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history. The ancient Land of Israel was a geographical bridge between the political and cultural centers of Mesopotamia and Egypt . Despite the importance of the country to three major religions, serious archaeological research only began in the 15th century. Although he never travelled to
945-417: Is typical of many Mid-Eastern populations which retain the knowledge of both ways of life and can switch between them fairly easily. This happens on a small scale, but can also happen on a large scale, when regional political and economical circumstances change dramatically. According to Finkelstein, this process of settlement on a large scale in the mountain-ranges of Canaan had already happened twice before, in
1008-457: The Acheulean culture have been discovered there. Among the other sites from this period is the site at Daughters of Jacob Bridge , which has been dated to 790,000 BP , using paleomagnetism . Some of the earliest evidence of the use of fire and wooden tools has been discovered on this site. It is estimated that the people who left the remains discovered on the two sites mentioned belonged to
1071-594: The Chalcolithic period. The child had been buried in a fetal position and covered with a cloth resembling a small blanket, wrapped around its head and chest, but not its feet. The burial was found along with 1,600-year-old Dead Sea scrolls . Fragments were Greek translations of the books of Nahum and Zechariah from the Book of the 12 Minor Prophets. The only text written in Hebrew was the name of God. The Bronze Age
1134-628: The Coastal plain . In February 2021, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Haifa University announced the discovery of six lines engraved on a 120,000-year-old aurochs bone near the city of Ramle in the open-air Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla. According to archaeologist Yossi Zaidner, this finding was definitely the oldest in the Levant . Three-dimensional imaging and microscopic analysis were used to examine
1197-556: The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of 1,700-year-old coins weighing a total of 6 kg., dated back to the 4th century AD in Atlit . According to Sharvit, coins demonstrated that they were assembled and agglutinated because of oxidation of the metals. In July 2022, marine archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) discovered a 1,850-year-old bronze Roman-era coin off
1260-429: The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of an 8,000-year-old "Mother Goddess" figurine at Sha'ar HaGolan archaeological site . Anna Eirikh-Rose, co-director of the excavation reported that the 20-centimeter long figurine covered by a bracelet with a red bottom was found broken into 2 pieces. It was sculpted in a sitting position with big hips, a unique pointed hat, what are known as "coffee-bean" eyes, and
1323-587: The Israel Antiquities Authority . One such site dating back to the Hellenistic period is Horvat Geres ( Arabic : Khirbet Jurish ) near Tzur Hadassah . The Roman period covers the dates 63 BCE to 330 CE, from Pompey the Great 's incorporation of the region into the Roman Republic until Rome's adoption of Christianity as the imperial religion. The Roman period had several stages: The end of
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#17327720827031386-604: The Levant , or even left the Netherlands, the first major work on the antiquities of Israel is considered to be Adriaan Reland 's Antiquitates Sacrae veterum Hebraeorum, published in 1708. Edward Robinson , an American theologian who visited the country in 1838, published its first topographical studies. Lady Hester Stanhope performed the first modern excavation at Ashkelon in 1815. A Frenchman, Louis Felicien de Saucy , embarked on early "modern" excavations in 1850. Today, in Israel, there are some 30,000 sites of antiquity,
1449-553: The Lower Paleolithic in Israel is defined by the earliest archaeological finds available. Occasionally, when new, more ancient sites are discovered, the boundaries of this period are redefined. Currently the most ancient site in Israel, and one of the earliest outside of Africa , is Ubeidiya , in the Jordan Rift Valley . Its age is estimated to be between 1.55 and 1.2 million years BP . Many stone tools of
1512-844: The Middle East and Europe at the time. In this era, bridging between the mobile bands of hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic and the agricultural villages of the Neolithic, three different cultures existed in Israel: the Kebaran culture , dated to 18,000–12,500 BCE, the Kebaran Geometric culture, dated to 12,500–10,500 BCE, and the Natufian culture , dated to 12,500–9,500 BCE. The Neolithic period appears to have begun when
1575-518: The Nile Valley . The settlements also traded with each other. In March 2021, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of the partially mummified 6000-year-old remains of a child in the Cave of Horror . The skeleton, probably a girl aged between 6 and 12 under two flat stones in a shallow pit grave was revealed with the help of CT (CAT) scan . The burial dates to
1638-530: The Roman period . Researchers assumed that the sarcophagi belonged to high-status people buried near Safari Park. The 6.5-foot-long coffins were crafted with limestone mined and designed with Greco-Roman symbolic discs and flower garlands. In May 2021, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority led by Dr. Rachel Bar Nathan announced the discovery in the Ashkelon National Park of
1701-582: The Tel Dan Stele and the Mesha Stele can be traced to a non-Hebrew cultural origin. Following the collapse of many cities and civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean Basin at the end of the Bronze Age, certain local nomadic groups in eastern Canaan began settling in the mountainous regions of that land (the mountain ranges on both sides of the Jordan River , of which the western part
1764-572: The empire of David and Solomon (United Monarchy) never existed and Judah was not in a position to support an extended state until the start of the 8th century. Finkelstein accepts the existence of King David and Solomon but doubts their chronology , significance and influence as described in the Bible. Without claiming that everything in the Bible is historically accurate, some non- supernatural story elements appear to correspond with physical artifacts and other archaeological findings. Inscriptions such as
1827-409: The Bronze Age, during periods when the urban civilization was in decline. The numbers of settlers were smaller in those previous two instances, and the settlement-systems they created ended up dissipating instead of coalescing into more mature political entities, as was the case with the settlers of the early Iron Age. In the early stages of this process, settlements had the form of nomadic tent-camps:
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1953-541: The ages of 20 and 40. A 30-millimeter (1.2-inch) square-shaped hole was created on the frontal bone of the skull after his scalp was cut with a sharp instrument with a bevelled-edge. The Iron Age in the Levant begins in about 1200 BCE, following the Late Bronze Age Collapse , when iron tools came into use. It is also known as the Israelite period. In this period both the archaeological evidence and
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2016-476: The area to smelt and work copper . Settlements of the Beersheba culture , a late Ghassulian subculture, specialized in different types of industry. Bir Abu Matar produced copper and copper tools, artifacts and jewelry . Copper ore , imported from Wadi Feynan or from Timna , was ground and then cooked in ovens. It was then smelted in special furnaces made of compacted earth mixed with straw. The molten metal
2079-400: The areas that would become the early Kingdom of Israel and the early Kingdom of Judea (before these kingdoms began spreading into the surrounding lowlands) numbered around 45,000. In the 11th century BCE Shiloh probably served as a religious center and might have held some political power in the region. In the mid to late 10th century BCE an early Israelite state formation emerged (possibly
2142-531: The bone. The six lines ranged in length from 38 to 42 millimeters. This period in Israel has been dated to between 45,000 BCE and 20,500 BCE, and its sites are associated with two cultural horizons: the Ahmarian culture and the Levantine Aurignacian culture. Some technological advancements were made in this period, including the introduction of new techniques for manufacturing flint tools ,
2205-553: The discovery at the Tabun Cave at the Mount Carmel site of the oldest known tool used for grinding or scraping, dating back about 350,000 years. According to researchers, this cobble belongs to the Acheulo-Yabrudian complex from the late Lower Paleolithic and was used by hominids for abrading surfaces. In February 2022, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority , led by Professor Ella Been, announced
2268-478: The discovery of a 1.5-million-year-old complete Hominini vertebra . According to the researchers, the fossilized bone belonging to a juvenile between the ages of 6–12 is the oldest evidence of ancient Hominini in the Middle East . This latest discovery has shed new light on the story of prehistoric migration . The lower lumbar vertebra , dated to the Early Pleistocene , differs in size and shape from
2331-459: The early evidence of a Bronze Age cranial surgery called trepanation in one of the brothers. The study published in PLOS One reports that the younger brother passed away in his teens or early twenties, most likely from an infectious illness like leprosy or tuberculosis . The older brother, who died immediately after the surgery, had angular notched trepanation and was thought to be between
2394-607: The heartland of the Kingdom of Saul , as described in the Old Testament , around that time—in the land of the Tribe of Benjamin , just north of Judah , the area of Gibeah . This attack by Shoshenq I on the Israelite kingdom was, most likely, a response to this kingdom's attempts to expand into the lowlands of Canaan (as evidenced by a series of destruction events of Canaanite cities in the north of Israel around that time), and
2457-660: The human form. One of the human fossils from this period is the Galilee Skull, part of a skull discovered by Francis Turville-Petre in Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh , in Nahal Amud , which is considered today to be the skull of a Homo heidelbergensis or of an early Homo sapiens . Notable Acheulo-Yabrudian sites are Tabun Cave and Qesem Cave . In December 2020, archaeologists from the University of Haifa announced
2520-511: The invention of the bow and arrow , and the manufacturing of stone tools intended for grinding food and preparing dyes . Humans began making tools from animal bones and the use of seashells for decoration became widespread. Parts of skeletons were discovered in various sites, but no cemeteries from this period were ever found. It seems that during this era the Neanderthals disappeared from Israel, as they were going extinct throughout
2583-590: The last invasion by Merneptah in 1207 BCE. The Amarna Letters are an example of a specific period during the Late Bronze Age when the vassal kings of the Levant corresponded with their overlords in Egypt. In February 2023, the remains of two elite brothers buried with Cypriot pottery , food and other valuable possessions were found in a Bronze Age tomb in Tel Megiddo. Bioarchaeologists identified
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2646-627: The later Chalcolithic layers of Teleilat el-Ghassul, the layers associated with the Ghassulian culture. The painters employed elaborate techniques, including the use of rulers to draw straight lines, and produced works of high accuracy. Periodically, a new layer of plaster would be applied to the wall and covered in fresh paintings. Over 20 such layers were discovered on the walls of one of the houses. The Ghassulians also produced ivory statuettes, often of naked women or bearded men, or using other motifs, for instance, birds. These statuettes had holes at
2709-729: The middle Roman period marks the end of the predominantly Jewish culture of Judea , but also the beginning of Rabbinic Judaism through Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakai in the city of Yavne . Therefore, the late Roman period is also called the Yavne Period. Prominent archaeological sites from the Roman period include: In March 2021, archaeologists announced the discovery at the Ramat Gan Safari Park in Tel Aviv of two 1,800-year-old sarcophagi , ancient stone coffins dating to
2772-441: The narrative evidence from the Bible become richer and much writing has attempted to make links between them. A chronology includes: The traditional view, personified in such archaeologists as Albright and Wright , faithfully accepted the biblical events as history, but has since been questioned by " Biblical minimalists " such as Niels Peter Lemche , Thomas L. Thompson and Philip R. Davies . Israel Finkelstein suggests that
2835-699: The north, from the Golan or from the Houran . These sets of exquisite artifacts also indicate an early phase of social stratification in Chalcolithic societies, since they were only found in several of the houses, whereas in others similar sets made of clay were discovered. Ivory for making ivory statuettes was brought from Africa, marine shells - from the Mediterranean coastline, from the Red Sea and from
2898-618: The oldest anatomically modern human remains discovered in this region of the continent of Africa. It is yet unclear whether Neanderthals and Homo sapiens populations coexisted side by side, in this area, or replaced each other as the global climate shifted, as was common during the Pleistocene . Both used the same style of stone tools , identified as the Mousterian culture . Remains of this culture have been discovered all over Israel, in dozens of cave sites and open sites. Judging by
2961-405: The one referred to in the Old Testament as the Kingdom of Saul ). It has been suggested by Finkelstein that this early Israelite state—and not David's 'unified kingdom', which he sees as a "literary construct"—had been the target of the campaign of Shoshenq I to Canaan, in the middle of the second half of the 10th century BCE. There is evidence of a large scale abandonment of settlements in
3024-839: The ones discovered in Es Skhul cave in Nahal Me'arot and in Me'arat Kedumim ( Kedumim Cave ) in Lower Galilee; the most notable Neanderthal skeletons are from Tabun Cave in Nahal Me'arot, from Kebara Cave , near Zikhron Ya'akov , and from Amud Cave in Nahal Amud . Other important sites are Misliyah Cave and Sephunim Cave in the Carmel and several open sites in the Golan, in the Negev , and in
3087-485: The peoples of the Natufian culture , which spread across present-day Syria , Israel and Lebanon , began to practice agriculture. This Neolithic Revolution has been linked to the cold period known as the Younger Dryas . This agriculture in the Levant is the earliest known to have been practiced. The Neolithic period in this region is dated 8500–4300 BCE and the Chalcolithic 4300–3300 BCE. The term "Natufian"
3150-411: The percentage of cattle bones found in animal bone deposits increased dramatically. Another characteristic of the early Israelite settlements is the absence of pig bones in excavated sites, which seems to be the earliest evidence of the development of an "Israelite national identity", though it is, so far, not quite conclusive. At the height of this process, in the 10th century BCE, the population of
3213-530: The remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman basilica complex dated to the reign of Herod the Great. The building had 3 sections, a central hall and two side parts. According to the excavators, big marble columns and capitals surrounded the main hall imported from Asia Minor in merchant ships. Remains of column capitals with plant motifs, some bearing an eagle were the symbol of the Roman Empire. In August 2021, marine archeologists headed by Yaakov Sharvit from
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#17327720827033276-710: The rise of the Early Bronze civilization. Chief among the Chalcolithic cultures of the Levant is the Ghassulian culture of the mid to late Chalcolithic. It might have been preceded by the Bsorian culture. The Ghassulian culture itself is made of several subcultures, one of which is the Beersheba culture . Hundreds of Chalcolithic sites have been discovered in Israel. Their subsistence was based on farming crops: chiefly wheat , barley and lentils , and on livestock: sheep , goats , pigs and cattle . The livestock
3339-509: The size and content of these sites it seems the population living in the area of today's Israel in that period was small. Groups were small and they subsisted on hunting , consuming the carcasses of dead animals and gathering plants. Their preferred game was the Mountain gazelle , the Persian fallow deer , and the Aurochs . In cave sites that had been used as seasonal dwellings in that period dozens of buried human skeletons have been uncovered. The most famous ancient Homo sapiens skeletons are
3402-559: The species Homo erectus , although the human fossils found were too few and incomplete to make a positive identification possible. An additional site from the early Lower Paleolithic is the Ruhama Swamp in the northern Negev , which contains remains from the Oldowan culture . Most of the sites from this period belong to the Acheulean culture , and on many of them remains of elephant bones have been found, together with tools made of flint and basalt . Additional important sites are Revadim , Tabun Cave in Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve ,
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3654-471: The top and were probably meant to be suspended by a string. They include motifs found in artifacts from pre-dynastic Upper Egypt ( Amratian and Gerzean cultures). People of the Chalcolithic engaged in extensive trade. Copper ore for the Ghassulian copper industry was imported from Timna or from Wadi Feynan , in today's Jordan. Basalt artifacts (sets of large, finely-crafted, basalt bowls) that were probably used in religious rituals were imported from
3717-424: The vast majority of which have never been excavated. In discussing the state of archaeology in Israel in his time, David Ussishkin commented in the 1980s that the designation " Israeli archaeology " no longer represents a single uniform methodological approach; rather, its scope covers numerous different archaeological schools, disciplines, concepts, and methods currently in existence in Israel. The beginning of
3780-411: Was also used for producing wool and dairy products. This is evident from the many butter churns , made of clay, and also from the large number of animal figurines that have been discovered on Chalcolithic sites. People of the Chalcolithic period were also the first in Israel to grow cultivated fruit-bearing trees, such as date palms , olive trees and pomegranates . The Ghassulians were the first in
3843-430: Was coined by Dorothy Garrod in 1928, after identifying an archaeological sequence at Wadi al-Natuf which included a Late Levallois-Mousterian layer and a stratified deposit, the Mesolithic of Palestine, which contained charcoal traces and a microlithic flint tool industry. Natufian sites in Israel include Ain Mallaha , el-Wad, Ein Gev , Hayonim cave , Nahal Oren and Kfar HaHoresh . In July 2022, archaeologists from
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#17327720827033906-553: Was collected in special clay bowls and cast into earthen molds that were shattered after the metal had cooled. The people of Bir Tzafad specialized in ivory carving . People of the Chalcolithic era also produced a multitude of stone (flint) tools , chief among which were fan scrapers , used mainly for working leather. Bone tools - such as picks, needles, combs and sickles - were also in use. Elaborate, multicolored, wall paintings, done on plaster, that were probably associated with Ghassulian religious practices, were discovered in
3969-472: Was discovered by Energean, a natural gas company operating several deep-sea natural gas fields in Israel's territorial waters. Understanding of the Chalcolithic period in Israel and in the Levant is still far from perfect. It seems that Chalcolithic cultures appeared in the northern Jordan Valley around 4,800 BCE, and in the southern parts of this valley, and, particularly, in Teleilat el-Ghassul , around 4,500 BCE. Though no direct evidence to this effect
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