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I should like to stress that my suggestions in this article comprise a working hypothesis and will have to be rigorously tested in the course of further historical and archaeological research. It will be particularly important to see whether the settlement picture that has emerged in the Negev is applicable to other areas where MBI sites are found.
See “Did I Excavate Kadesh-Barnea?” BAR 07:03, by Rudolph Cohen.
See “Beer-Sheba of the Patriarchs,” BAR 06:06, by Ze’ev Herzog.
See “Herod’s Harbor Construction Recovered Underwater,” BAR 09:03; “Caesarea Beneath the Sea,” BAR 08:03; and “Caesarea Maritima—The Search for Herod’s City,” BAR 08:03.
See Josephus excerpts in “Searching for Herod’s Tomb.”
See “Have Sodom and Gomorrah Been Found?” BAR 06:05.
The term “Roman concrete” is also used to refer to opus reticulatum walls (see “Herod’s Family Tomb in Jerusalem”), walls built with uniformly cut small stones laid in a diagonal or other pattern. The concrete that was the core of opus reticulatum walls had the same composition as the concrete used in the breakwaters at Caesarea.
