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Wadi Raba
The Wadi Rabah culture is a Pottery Neolithic archaeological culture of the Southern Levant, dating to the middle of the 5th millennium BCE. Research This period was first identified at the ancient site of Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) by British archaeologists John Garstang and Kathleen Kenyon in separate excavations. Kenyon has named this period in Jericho "Pottery Neolithic B". The name "Wadi Rabah" was since used in archaeologic literature thanks to the works of Israeli archaeologist Jacob Kaplan at the site of Wadi Rabah.Garfinkel 2019, 105 Settlements This culture is known from a small amount of sites, in some of which remains of small rectangular structures were discovered. Some larger structures were found in Munhata, Wadi Rabah and Ein el-Jarba, though Israeli archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel suggests that large courtyard structures were erected in that period, like the ones found at Sha'ar HaGolan of the preceding Yarmukian culture (c. 6400–6000 BCE) and Tel Tsaf of the fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pottery Neolithic
In the Near Eastern archaeology, archaeology of Southwest Asia, the Late Neolithic, also known as the Ceramic Neolithic or Pottery Neolithic, is the final part of the Neolithic period, following on from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and preceding the Chalcolithic. It is sometimes further divided into Pottery Neolithic A (PNA) and Pottery Neolithic B (PNB) phases. The Late Neolithic began with the first experiments with pottery, around 7000 BCE, and lasted until the discovery of copper metallurgy and the start of the Chalcolithic around 4500 BCE. Southern Levant The Neolithic of the Southern Levant is divided into Pre-Pottery and Pottery or Late Neolithic phases, initially based on the sequence established by Kathleen Kenyon at Jericho. In the Mediterranean zone, the Pottery Neolithic is further subdivided into two subphases and several regional cultures, although the extent to which these represent real cultural phenomena is debated: * Pottery Neolithic A (PNA) or Late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Giladi
Kfar Giladi ( he, כְּפַר גִּלְעָדִי, ''lit.'' Giladi Village, ar, كفار جلعادي) is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle of northern Israel. Located south of Metula on the Naftali Mountains above the Hula Valley and along the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Kibbutz Giladi was founded in 1916 by members of Hashomer on land owned by the Jewish Colonization Association. It was named after Israel Giladi, one of the founders of the Hashomer movement. The area was subject to intermittent border adjustments between the British and the French, and in 1919, the British relinquished the northern section of the Upper Galilee containing Tel Hai, Metula, Hamra, and Kfar Giladi to the French jurisdiction. After the Arab attack on Tel Hai in 1920, it was temporarily abandoned. Ten months later, the settlers returned. Several older buildings stand on the kibbutz that memorializ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Shuna Al-Shamalyah
Al-Shunah al-Shamalyah ( ar, الشونة الشمالية, also spelled Esh-Shuneh esh-Shamaliyeh), which translates to North Shuna, a name it is also known by, is a Jordanian town. It is located in Irbid Governorate, overlooking the Jordan River Valley. The city sits at the intersection of Highway 65 and Highway 10, and lies just south of the confluence of Yarmouk and Jordan rivers. Etymology ''Shunah'' translates in the region's Arabic to "barn". Shunah is also spelled Shuneh and Shuna. The Arabic definite article ''al'' when followed by certain consonants undergoes assimilation to the latter, so that in cases like this, ''al'' is sounded ''ash'', also spelled ''esh'', (See Hart's Rules). yielding here ''ash-Shunah/esh-Shuneh''. Likewise ''al-Shamalyah'' is often rendered ''ash-Shamaliyah/esh-Shamaliyeh''. For the beginning of place-names, at least when reproduced in English, common convention allows for the definite article to be dropped, yielding here ''Shunah'' (''Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahal Zehora
Nahal ( he, נח"ל) (acronym of ''Noar Halutzi Lohem'', lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth) is a program that combines military service with mostly social welfare and informal education projects such as youth movement activities, as well as training in entrepreneurship in urban development areas. Prior to the 1990s it was a paramilitary Israel Defense Forces program that combined military service and the establishment of agricultural settlements, often in peripheral areas. The Nahal groups of soldiers formed the core of the Nahal Infantry Brigade. History In 1948, a ''gar'in'' (core group) of Jewish pioneers wrote to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion requesting that members be allowed to do their military service as a group rather than being split up into different units at random. In response to this letter, Ben-Gurion created the Nahal program, which combined military service and farming. Some 108 kibbutzim and agricultural settlements were established by the Nahal, many of them o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Zurayq
Abu Zurayq is an archaeological site located on the western edge of the Jezreel Valley and its transition to the Menashe Heights, next to Highway 66, between the modern kibbutzim of HaZore'a and Mishmar HaEmek. The site includes tell called Tel Zariq () or Tell Abu Zureiq, a spring called Ein Zariq and other sites around it. The site was surveyed by Avner Raban expedition as part of the survey of the Mishmar HaEmek area between 1974 and 1976. Based on the pottery collected by his team, the site was inhabited continuously from the Neolithic to the Ottoman periods.Ayala Sussmann, Avner Raban, 2013, Tel Zariq The site is named after a Muslim saint who is buried there. In the 20th century, it was a Palestinian Turkmen village in the Haifa Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, situated near Wadi Abu Zurayq. The area was also named Et Tawatiha, after the al-Tawatiha tribe, one of the three "true" Turkmen tribes in Palestine. It was depopulated on April 12–13 during and after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yizre'el
Yizre'el ( he, יִזְרְעֶאל) is a kibbutz in north-eastern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley near Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History After the Bahri dynasty, Mamluks took control of the area in the late 13th century, the Mamluk sultan Zahir Baybars defeated the Mongol Empire, Mongols in the Battle of Ain Jalut at a site just west of what was then Zir'in, where Yizre'el now stands. The kibbutz was established in August 1948 by demobilization, demobilised Palmach soldiers in the remains of the depopulated Palestinians, Palestinian village of Zir'in. In 1950, it moved North-West of the Zir'in village site. It was one of the first kibbutzim to abandon the system of children sleeping in communal houses, instead allowing them to live with their parents. It was named after the ancient city of Jezreel (city), Jezreel, which was located in the area allotted to the tribe of Issachar (Joshua 19:18). Economy A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Ali
Tel Ali is an archaeological site located one mile south of the Sea of Galilee, in the central Jordan Valley, Israel. It has been excavated twice. First, during the years 1955–1959, Moshe Prausnitz conducted salvage excavations on behalf of the Israel Department of Antiquities. He published only preliminary reports and most of the excavation finds remained unstudied. Prausnitz uncovered a detailed sequence of occupation including: Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Pre-Pottery Neolithic C, Pottery Neolithic B (Wadi Rabah), Middle Chalcolithic (Beth-Shean XVIII) and Late Chalcolithic (Ghassulian). However, at the time of excavation many of these phases had not yet been defined. The picture at Tel Ali became clearer only after Yosef Garfinkel Yosef Garfinkel (hebrew: יוסף גרפינקל; born 1956) is an Israeli archaeologist and academic. He is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and of Archaeology of the Biblical Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Yosef (Yo ...' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiryat Ata
Kiryat Ata ( he, קִרְיַת אָתָא; also Qiryat Ata) is a city in the Haifa District of Israel. In it had a population of , 92% of whom were Jewish citizens. History The Early Bronze Age site at Qiryat Ata has been extensively excavated since 1990, revealing stratified remains from the Neolithic, EB (=early Bronze Age), IB and EB II periods. At ''Tell el ‘Idham'' remains from a continuous habitation from the early Bronze Age, through the Achaemenid Empire, Persian age down to the Roman Empire, Roman era have been identified. Archaeologists Mordechai Aviam and Dan Barag (1935–2009) thought it to be the ''Capharatha'' ( gr, Καφαραθ᾽) mentioned by Josephus in the Lower Galilee, one of several views tentatively identified for the site. Rock-hewn winepresses dating to the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine era have been found here. Some have had crosses and Greek letters incised, supporting the theory that there was a Byzantine monastery located in the area. Ceramics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horvat Uza
Horvat Uza ( he, חורבת עוזה) is an archaeological site located in the northeast of the Negev desert in Israel. The site is located in the east of the Arad, Israel, Arad Valley and overlooks Nahal Qinah (Qinah Valley). In ancient times, forts were established there to control the wadi road, linking Judea to Arabah and the territory of Edom. It was mentioned as ''Qina'' by Josephus in book 15 of his Antiquities. Several inscribed potsherds with inscriptions in Hebrew language, Hebrew, dated to the 7th-century BCE, were found in Horvat Uza. References External links *{{cite web , title= Inscribed potsherd (ostracon), Horvat Uza, Iron Age II, 7th century BCE, Ink on pottery , publisher=The Israel Museum, Jerusalem , url= https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/395409?itemNum=395409 , access-date= 27 May 2021 Photo of Horvat Uza ostracon, inscribed with the text "Ten: Menahem son of H[…]; Neryahu son of Semak[yahu]; Neryahu son of Mishk[an]ya[hu]; Netanyahu son of Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabri, Israel
Kabri ( he, כַּבְּרִי, also transliterated Cabri) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Western Galilee about east of the Mediterranean seaside town of Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In it had a population of . The kibbutz is located on lands which used to belong to the depopulated Palestinian villages of Al-Kabri and al-Nahr. History Prehistory The area of Kabri springs was first settled 16,000 years ago , during the Neolithic period. Permanent structures appeared around the year 10000 BCE . Archaeological digs uncovered the remains of an ancient city. The city was built around the year 2500 BCE and its territory ranged over , which were surrounded by dirt embankments high and thick, on which were built guard towers. The ancient city that existed 1 km to the south-west is known to archaeologists as Tel Kabri, though its Canaanite name is not known. It was a city-state in the heart of which was pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
