See, e.g., Raz Kletter, “People Without Burials? The Lack of Iron I Burials in the Central Highlands of Palestine,” Israel Exploration Journal 52 (2002), pp. 28–48; Avraham Faust, “ ‘Mortuary Practices, Society and Ideology’: The Lack of Iron Age I Burials in the Highlands in Context,” Israel Exploration Journal 54 (2004), pp. 174–190.