The Settlements and Population of Palestine during the Early Bronze Age II-III

The Population of Palestine in Iron Age II

“…The methodological basis of our work has been explained in detail in earlier papers (Broshi and Gophna 1984;1986); hence we shall repeat only the essential issues and augment them with some new comparative material. We employ here the same principles used in the first two articles of the series.…”

“…1). We have not supplied a list of sites as we did in the previous articles (Broshi and Gophna 1984;1986). The surveyors generously provided the results of their field work, but since the data…”

“…The first two treated the Early Bronze and Middle Bronze Ages (Broshi and Gophna 1984;1986), while this one is devoted to the Iron II. We have chosen the eighth century B.C.E.…”

Assessing Departures from Log-Normality in the Rank-Size Rule

“…The dataset used here was compiled by Gophna & Portugali (1987) from two sources: material published by Broshi & Gophna (1984, 1985, and additional survey data compiled by the authors themselves. Spatially, the data come from ''the regions of the Carmel coast, the Sharon plain, and Philistia.…”

The Early Bronze Age Remains at Tell eṣ-Ṣāfi/Gath: An Interim Report

“…24 ha (Uziel and Maeir 2005;2012a: 175-177; see here Fig. 2), making it one of the largest sites in Early Bronze Canaan (e.g., Broshi and Gophna 1984). Obviously, there is no direct correlation between site size and site importance since the actual settled area during a specific period may be smaller than the dispersion of pottery from that era.…”