Fouilles de Tel Yarmouth (1980-2009) - Rapport final, volume 1 : les fouilles sur l'Acropole - Grand Format

Tel Yarmurh is a major archaeological site of the southern Levant, located 25 km southwest of Jerusalem. In the Early Bronze Age, it was the largest fortified city-state of this region. Long after its abandonment at c. 2400 BCE, it was reoccupied on the acropolis only, which remained settled more or less continuously from the Middle Bronze Age II)17 h-16th cent. BCE) to the Early Byzantine Period (4th cent.
CE). The site is identified with the biblical settlement of Yarmurh and the Byzantine village of Iermochos. This volume is the first monograph of the final publication of the excavations conducted between 1980 and 2009. It is devoted to the excavations on the acropolis where the entire settlement history of Yarmuth was established. It provides an account of those excavations, a detailed presentation of the saarigraphy, extensive descriptions of the pottery and the various archaeological artefacts and ecofacts, and a discussion of the archaeological and biblical contexts of the site's history.
The continuous archaeological sequence from the Late Bronze II to the end of the Iron Age (c. 1200-950 BCE) is especially noteworthy. It illustrates the fate of Canaanite village in the shadow of larger regional centers during the momentous centuries that witnessed the decline of the Canaanite polities, the rise of Me Philistine city-states and the emergence of the kingdom of Judah.