The Southern Levant is a geographical region encompassing the southern half of the Levant. It corresponds approximately to modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Jordan; some definitions also include southern Lebanon, southern Syria and/or the Sinai Peninsula. As a strictly geographical description, it is sometimes used by archaeologists and historians to avoid the religious and political connotations of other names for the area.
Like much of Southwestern Asia, the Southern Levant is an arid region consisting mostly of desert and dry steppe, with a thin strip of wetter, temperate climate along the Mediterranean coast. Geographically it is dominated by the Jordan Valley, a section of the Great Rift Valley bisecting the region from north to south, and containing the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River and the Dead Sea – the lowest point on the Earth's land surface.
The Southern Levant has a long history and is one of the areas of the world most intensively investigated by archaeologists. It is considered likely to be the first place that both early hominins and modern humans colonised outside of Africa. Consequently, it has a rich Stone Age archaeology, stretching back as early as 1.5 million years ago. With one of the earliest sites for urban settlements, it also corresponds to the western parts of the Fertile Crescent.
The SouthernLevant is a geographical region encompassing the southern half of the Levant. It corresponds approximately to modern-day Israel, Palestine...
The Levant (/ləˈvænt/ lə-VANT) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia...
The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south...
The prehistory of the Levant includes the various cultural changes that occurred, as revealed by archaeological evidence, prior to recorded traditions...
كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the SouthernLevant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. Canaan...
disciplines. The name Levant (or Syria-Palestine) is used to refer to the area adjacent to the east coast of the Mediterranean. The southern region included...
This is a list of dynasties and states that have historically had ties to either ethnic Jews or their religion of Judaism. Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)...
Levantine archaeology is the archaeological study of the Levant. It is also known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology or Palestinian archaeology (particularly...
Judaism in the Land of Israel History of Palestine (region) Prehistory of the Levant Timeline of the name Palestine Timeline of the Palestine region S. Parpola...
the southernLevant" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte. 12: 47–71. Bar-Yosef, Ofer (1998). "The Natufian Culture in the Levant, Threshold...
the start of the Chalcolithic around 4500 BCE. The Neolithic of the SouthernLevant is divided into Pre-Pottery and Pottery or Late Neolithic phases, initially...
The Kingdom of Judah was an Israelite kingdom of the SouthernLevant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands of Judea, the landlocked kingdom's...
Greek: Ἰουδαία, Ioudaía; Latin: Iudaea) is a mountainous region of the Levant. Traditionally dominated by the city of Jerusalem, it is now part of Palestine...
the south: the Litani River, which marks the boundary towards the SouthernLevant. To the west: the Mediterranean Sea History of Syria History of Lebanon...
Pottery and ceramics have been produced in the Levant since prehistoric times. The history of pottery in the region begins in the Late Neolithic period...
to the south. This new finding led to speculations that much of the SouthernLevant might have been inhabited by a contiguous civilization during the time...
Iberomaurusians in North Africa, though once thought to have originated in the Levant. The culture is named after Wadi Mushabi and probably derives from the Nizzanian...
Southern Syria (Arabic: سوريا الجنوبية Sūriyā l-Janūbiyya) is the southern part of the Syria region, roughly corresponding to the SouthernLevant. Typically...
kingdoms in the mid-first millenium BCE. This history unfolds within the SouthernLevant during the Iron Age. The earliest documented mention of "Israel" as...
force which had already plundered Hattusa, Carchemish, Cyprus, and the SouthernLevant. Egyptian sources name one of these implicated Sea Peoples as the pwrꜣsꜣtj...
archaeometallurgy in the southernLevant is the archaeological study of non-iron-related metal technology in the region of the SouthernLevant during the Chalcolithic...
was an ancient Near East port city on the Mediterranean coast of the southernLevant that played a major role in several historical periods up until the...
known as Rūm) are an ethnoreligious Eastern Christian group native to the Levant. They are either members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch or the...
archaeological stage dating to the Middle and Late Chalcolithic Period in the SouthernLevant (c. 4400 – c. 3500 BC). Its type-site, Teleilat Ghassul (Teleilat el-Ghassul...
romanized: Banū Jud͟hām) was a large Arab tribe that inhabited the southernLevant and northwestern Arabia during the late antique and early Islamic eras...
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