entity · people_iron_i_highland_communities
Iron I highland communities
Also known as: Central-highland settlers
Survey- and excavation-defined small-site communities in the central highlands, without automatic ethnic assignment.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1200 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · supports distribution
The Iron I Settlement Wave in the Central Highlands of Canaan — Yuval Gadot (2019)Synthesizes settlement-wave evidence and lowland connections.
Locator: pp. 82-91 - 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)Provides an influential ethnogenesis model and its archaeological basis.
Locator: pp. 198-212
Research description
Survey- and excavation-defined small-site communities in the central highlands, without automatic ethnic assignment. The record preserves the distinction between source label, archaeological pattern, political formation, and later identity.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological proxy, not ethnicity
A material or biological pattern that may inform social history but is not a direct ethnic label.
Why does this record have this property?
The group is defined by settlement archaeology and must not be treated as a direct ethnic census.
- The Iron I Settlement Wave in the Central Highlands of Canaan
supports distribution · settlement-wave evidence
Evidence and sources
- informs · supports distribution
The Iron I Settlement Wave in the Central Highlands of Canaan — Yuval Gadot (2019)Synthesizes settlement-wave evidence and lowland connections.
Locator: pp. 82-91 - 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)Provides an influential ethnogenesis model and its archaeological basis.
Locator: pp. 198-212
Referenced records
- Central highlands · entity