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Early Jericho

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kathleen M. Kenyon
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In Professor Garstang's two final seasons’ work at Jericho, he established the remote antiquity of the origin of the settlement on that site. He showed that beneath the long sequence of Bronze Age levels lay a considerable depth of Neolithic occupation, with beneath it again soil containing flints of the Palestinian Mesolithic period. At Jericho, therefore, there was evidence of the earliest settled occupation hitherto discovered in Palestine, and the underlying Mesolithic levels suggested that the site might provide evidence for the transition from a food-gathering to a food-producing economy.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 103 , September 1952 , pp. 116 - 122
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1952

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References

1 Liverpool Annals of Art and Archaeology, XXII and XXIII.

2 Generous contributions to the British share of the cost of the expedition were made, in addition to those of the two sponsoring bodies, by the British Academy, Sydney University, Birmingham City Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, while the Pontifical Biblical Institute also contributed generously to the cost. The members of the staff from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the United States are too numerous to mention by name, but all did most useful work.

3 More properly a scarp in military terminology, but the term glacis has become so well-established in Palestinian archaeology as describing this type of sloping defence, that it is probably less confusing to continue to use it.

4 ANTIQUITY, XXIV ; Sumer, VII.

5 Bulletin du Musée de Beyrouth, 1949-50.

6 Syria, XXI.

7 Braidwood, Mounds in the Plain of Antiock.

8 Bulletin du Musée de Beyrouth, 1949-50.