Theses and Dissertations

ORCID

https://orcid.org/ 0009-0002-6588-2916

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Hardin, James W.

Committee Member

Blakely, Jeffrey A.

Committee Member

Miller, Darcy S.

Committee Member

Lambert, Shawn

Date of Degree

12-13-2024

Original embargo terms

Visible MSU only 1 year

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Campus Access Only

Major

Applied Anthropology

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures

Abstract

In 2019, the author re-presented two 14C dates for Tell el-Hesi in the northern Negev desert of modern-day Israel that were originally published in 2006 by Anderson. Here, 10 additional samples out of the total recovered corpus by The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi in 1979 from the EB III occupation in Field VI, were 14C tested to refine further the EB III absolute dates for the site. The samples come from two main contexts along the EB III city wall, representing both the interior occupational debris and an ash dump feature found along the exterior of the city wall. The samples were selected specifically to help frame the EB III temporal landscape of Tell el-Hesi, address the questions presented in this study, as well as provide a benchmark for the chronology of the site that may be beneficial to potential future projects and research conducted at Hesi.

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