entity · place_southern_levant
Southern Levant
Modern Israel, Palestine, Jordan, southern Lebanon, Sinai, and adjacent Syrian/Egyptian zones used only as a research frame.
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 modern analytical geographic frame, not an ancient political unit or border. It contains multiple ecological zones, city networks, imperial spaces, pastoral corridors, and changing polities.
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_levant · geography assertion