As Lawrence Stager recently noted, “These hill people, whom Albright correctly identified with the early Israelites, were able to establish new settlements in formerly uninhabited areas ‘thanks to the rapid spread of the art … of constructing cisterns and lining them with waterproof lime plaster’,” citing Albright’s 1960 book, The Archaeology of Palestine. Stager, “The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 260 (1985), p. 9.