Peter M. Fischer
Austrian Academy, Vienna, and Gothenburg University
Tell Abu al-Kharaz lies in Transjordan, along the north-south road which connects the Sea of Galilee with the Dead Sea. This multiperiod tell was occupied from the Chalcolithic period (stray finds) until Islamic times except for a break of more than thousand years (state of excavation spring 2001), which lasted from the late Early Bronze Age II until the later part of the Middle Bronze Age.
The aim of this paper is to present some conclusions which, in many respects, are yet provisional. The paper will concentrate on the finds from the major occupations, namely, the later part of Early Bronze Age I, Early Bronze Age II, late Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age I and II and Iron Age I and II. Relative and absolute datings and the synchronization with other cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean will be discussed.
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