Tel Anafa 1979
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"The new series of excavations at Tel Anafa in Upper Galilee, Israel, continued with an eight-week season in the summer of 1979 under the joint sponsorship of the University of Missouri's Museum of Art and Archaeology and the Kelsey Museum of the University of Michigan. The site, located near the crossroads of the ancient trans-desert trade route from the East to the Mediterranean with the north-south route up the Jordan rift, flourished from the Early Bronze Age through the Early Roman period. Five previous seasons of excavation by the University of Missouri Museum have unearthed rich remains of these three millennia of occupation. In 1979 we concentrated our work on the Early Roman and Hellenistic levels, seeking to clarify the plan and function of the large and elaborately stuccoed Late Hellenistic building (150-80 B.C.) which dominates the northeast quadrant of the tel, and to ascertain the extent and nature of the first century A.O. re-use of the area. The results of the 1979 season provided much new information on both these periods of occupation and as usual produced some stratigraphical surprises and new questions about the ancient inhabitants of Tel Anafa."--First paragraph.
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