“…In Late Antiquity, that is, from the late Roman period until the Byzantine period, like the Northern Levant the Southern Levant experienced high population growth (Broshi 1979;Bar 2004). In this period, seven settlements were probably between 90 and 120 hectares (Ptolemais, Legio, Caesarea, Scythopolis, Aelia-Capitolina, Anthedom and Gaza).…”