Beit She'an ruins

Roman Cardo in Beit She'an National Park

In 1933, archaeologist G.M. FitzGerald, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, carried out a "deep cut" on Tell el-Hisn ("castle hill"), the large mound of Beth She'an, in order to determine the earliest occupation of the site. His results suggest that settlement began in the Late Neolithic or Early Chalcolithic periods (sixth to fifth millennia BCE.)^[3] Occupation continued intermittently up to the late Early Bronze Age I (3200–3000), according to pottery finds, and then resumes in the Early Bronze Age III.^[4] A large cemetery on the northern Mound was in use from the Bronze Age to Byzantine times.^[5] Canaanite graves dating from 2000 to 1600 BCE were discovered there in 1926.^[6]

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