Archaeology · 3 · Deborah
Unwalled hilltop villages
Early highland settlements were self-sufficient, unfortified, mostly on hilltops, often arranged in an oval around a courtyard that served as a corral.
Simple, local, and modest.
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Most could support no more than a hundred people. They lacked large administrative buildings and temples.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 51
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