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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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This type of research is based on statistical methodology.
The location of remains and concentrations of fragments are transferred onto a map of the area. This allows a reconstruction of how a given territory was occupied, the size of sites, their number, and their evolution over time.
In this way, the highlands were inspected with a fine-tooth comb. THE RESULTS WERE AMAZING!
Between the 12th and 10th centuries B.C., almost 250 villages were to be found in the highlands of central Canaan.
This occurred without the slightest trace of a military conquest. It was a social transformation that was gradual, but nevertheless RADICAL.
[Israel Finkelstein] So what we see here is the entire map of all the surveys of many years in the highlands,
from south to north.
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