LA REURBANIZACIÓN DEL SIGLO X a.n.e. EN PALESTINA Y EL REGISTRO ARQUEOLÓGICO

Abstract

The amazing amount of data from archaeological excavations and surveys in Palestine (understood as in the between wars periods, that is, the ancient Canaan zone) only deserved a more or less coherent picture when it is possible to accommodate these data within certain parameters, year after year of fertile activity. For the Xth century a. C. E. the "archaeologycal record" points to a widerspread reurbanisation after the deep crisis at the end of the Bronze Age Period. In the last twenty years, the trait of this picture are more and more defined, and the area of research in considerably expanded towards the east with the incorporation of the surveys and excavations in the Kingdom of Jordan. Among the novelties, new expeditions to traditional tells (specially Tel Hazor), the application of the most sofisticated datation techniques and new turns in the overall analysis, the renewed interest to the herald sites at the end of the XI a. C. E. sites, and the comparison between surveys and excavations data.