Title: Tell el-Hesi : modern military trenching and Muslim cemetery in field I, strata I-II /
Authors: Toombs, Lawrence E.; O'Connell, Kevin G.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Cemeteries Middle East.; Intrenchments.; Excavations (Archaeology) Middle East; Islamic antiquities Israel.; Tombs Israel.; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Trench warfare.; Ḥasi Site (Israel); Middle East Antiquities; Tel @Hasi site (Israel); Israel Antiquities
Abstract: The Tell el-Hesi site comprises a 25-acre walled city from the Early Bronze III period. It is located on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean coastal plain, 26 km northeast of Gaza in Israel. Tell el-Hesi was the first Palestinian site at which the principles of ceramic chronology and of stratigraphic excavation were applied and at which the relationship between pottery and stratigraphy was shown to be significant. In 1890 W.M. Flinders Petrie excavated at Hesi and produced a general picture of its occupational history. In 1891-92, F.J. Bliss excavated stratigraphically through each successive level of the mound and identified eleven occupational levels which he grouped into eight strata or "cities".^
Contents: 1. General introduction -- pt. 1, Stratum I, The military trenching: -- 2. Stratum I: The military trenching: General structure of the trenching; History of the defense system; The trenching as excavated; Period of use of the trench system.