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From Villages to Empires: Archaeological Settlements of the South Levant from the Chalcolithic to the Byzantine Period Cover

From Villages to Empires: Archaeological Settlements of the South Levant from the Chalcolithic to the Byzantine Period

Open Access
|Jun 2025

Abstract

The present dataset contains point geometries of archaeological sites (5,542) in the South Levant. Data were collected from different sources: published archaeological surveys, online databases, excavation reports, and stored in a geospatial database in an open format – geopackage (.gpkg). It comprises information about periods of occupation (site-phase), location, estimated size, typology, and bibliographical information. The dataset is stored on GitHub and Zenodo under an open-access license. For the South Levant, it represents – to our knowledge – the first dataset combining location accuracy, estimated size, and an analysis-ready structure. It can support a wide range of analyses, from simple point pattern to long-term settlement history reconstruction, to multi-proxy studies if combined with other archaeological and paleoenvironmental data.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.158 | Journal eISSN: 2049-1565
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 31, 2025
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Accepted on: Mar 31, 2025
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Published on: Jun 12, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Andrea Titolo, Alessio Palmisano, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.