ranked model · model_highland_ethnogenesis
Highland settlement and Israelite ethnogenesis
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Model comparison
question
What best explains Iron I highland settlement growth and its relationship to early Israel?tests
- subregional settlement chronologies
- faunal and botanical mobility indicators
- ceramic production networks
- isotope evidence with ethical sampling
- contemporary textual labels
Evidence and sources
- informs · proposes interpretation
The Iron I Settlement Wave in the Central Highlands of Canaan — Yuval Gadot (2019)Principal support.
Locator: settlement synthesis - informs · proposes interpretation
Ethnicity and Origin of the Iron I Settlers in the Highlands of Canaan: Can the Real Israel Stand Up? — Israel Finkelstein (1996)Alternative.
Locator: ethnogenesis model - informs · proposes interpretation
Will the Real Israel Please Stand Up? Archaeology and Israelite Historiography — William G. Dever (1995)Alternative.
Locator: alternative synthesis - informs · proposes interpretation
The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine — George E. Mendenhall (1962)Legacy alternative.
Locator: social-revolt model
Referenced records
- Iron I highland communities · entity
- Early Israelites · entity
- Expansion of small settlements in the central highlands · event
- Multicausal Iron I highland settlement model · causal hypothesis