entity · place_southern_coastal_plain
Southern coastal plain and Philistia research zone
Coastal plain from the Yarkon region toward Gaza, including sites later grouped as the Philistine pentapolis.
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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · contextualizes
Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places — Ancient World Mapping Center, Stoa ConsortiumSupports ancient-place orientation while not defining the analytical region as a polity.
Locator: Regional place records and linked ancient-place gazetteer entries, accessed 2026-08-12 - informs · provides source criticism
The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon — Rachel Hallote (2020)Documents how modern geographic and disciplinary frames can shape interpretation.
Locator: Chapter 2
Research description
A geographic and archaeological frame. 'Philistia' is used only for temporally supported Iron Age settlement and political distributions, not as a Late Bronze fixed border.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places — Ancient World Mapping Center, Stoa ConsortiumSupports ancient-place orientation while not defining the analytical region as a polity.
Locator: Regional place records and linked ancient-place gazetteer entries, accessed 2026-08-12 - informs · provides source criticism
The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon — Rachel Hallote (2020)Documents how modern geographic and disciplinary frames can shape interpretation.
Locator: Chapter 2
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for place_southern_coastal_plain · geography assertion
- Southern Levant · entity