Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 b.c.e.), Volume 1, The Archaeology (A Conference Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 491; European Seminar in Historical Methodology 7)

Remarks on Some Selected Archaeological Issues"; Beth Alpert Nakhai, "Contextualizing Village Life in the Iron Age I"; Ronny Reich, Eli Shukron, and Omri Lernau, "The Iron Age II Finds from the Rock-Cut 'Pool' near the Spring in Jerusalem: A Preliminary Report"; Brace Routledge, "Thinking 'Globally' and Analyzing 'Locally': South-Central Jordan in Transition"; lian Sharon, Ayelet Gilboa, and Elisabetta Boaretto, "The Iron Age Chronology of the Levant: On architectural grounds, Franklin dates the building of the Jezreel Enclosure and similar buildings in Samaria and Megiddo, traditionally dated to the ninth century, to the eighth century b.c.e. On the basis of shipwrecks found in the Mediterranean, Knauf concludes that long-distance trade declined between the twelfth and tenth centuries b.c.e. He suggests that economic recovery in the region started in the tenth century in the Benjamin area, stimulated by Arabah copper, and moved to the Shechem area in the ninth century b.c.e. because of Cyprus copper and Phoenician dominance.