Cities and Lights in the Early Bronze Age. On the First Oil Lamps in the Southern Levant

Abstract

This article will analyze the firs oil lamps, bowl-shaped clay containers, found at Ein Zippori excavations in the Lower Galilee, and will review the same findings at various Early Bronze Age (EB) sites in the southern Levant. The EB IB is the beginning of the widespread appearance of these lamps in archaeological finds in the southern Levantine sites, at least in what is now Israel and the territories of the Palestinian Authority in light of the first urbanization of the region, and a change in the social and economic organization of these communities.