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294:, Tell el-Far'ah had ramparts and domestic housing units. The earliest pottery oven of its kind was excavated here; it had two chambers that allowed separation between the vessels being fired and the open flame. This type of pottery oven continued to be used in the region until the
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is clearly evident at the site. The western gate in the town wall was rebuilt several times during this period. The excavations indicate developing urbanization and the presence of new populations. However, the town was abandoned in the middle of the third millennium
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At the end of the EB I into the EB II society changes from being village-based to urban-based. The late EB I represented a period of settlement peak and intensified activity in the Wadi Far'ah and highlands of
Samaria with settlements being newly established.
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505:. The royal palace at Tirzah was set on fire by Zimri when he was faced with having to surrender to Omri. Omri reigned from Tirzah for six years after which he moved Israel's capital to
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Sala, Maura (2022). "The EB IB–II Transition at Tell el-Far'ah North: Continuity Versus
Discontinuity. A Preliminary Reassessment". In Adams, Matthew J.; Roux, Valentine (eds.).
417:, the center of a network of villages, one of five such networks that make up the Israelite settlement, starting around 1150/1130 BCE, in the highlands between Jerusalem and the
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Montero Fenollós, Juan Luis (2024). "Tell el-Farʿah: New
Archaeological Research on the Iron Age IIA in the Central Mountains of Palestine".
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