8. The End of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant

The destruction horizon is the force carrier of archaeological interpretation, but however straightforward they might seem at first, the closer you look, the less you know. Introduction During the last 18 years, Sapienza University of Rome has carried out excavations in Palestine at the key-site of Tell es-Sultan, ancient Jericho (Nigro 2016a), famous in archaeology since the epic work of Dame Kathleen M. Kenyon (Kenyon 1957 ; 1960 ; 1965 ; 1981 ; Kenyon & Holland 1982 ; 1983), but also a sy...