The Southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Iron Age I Period

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Oxford University Press

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• ranked model Moab, Ammon, and Edom formation
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · regional synthesis

  Common baseline.

• claim Moab, Ammon, and Edom emerged through different and uneven settlement and political trajectories rather than one synchronous Transjordanian state-formation event.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Iron I regional synthesis

  Shows uneven evidence.

• claim Excavation intensity, salvage conditions, later building, publication language, and modern borders strongly shape which southern Levantine sites and communities are visible.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · regional evidence limits

  Shows Transjordanian unevenness.

• event Iron I settlement growth on the Moab plateau
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · supports distribution · Iron I Transjordan settlement synthesis

  Provides regional evidence.

• date assertion Iron I settlement growth on the Moab plateau — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · supports distribution · Iron I Transjordan settlement synthesis

  Provides regional evidence.