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It is likely that this is the reason the Israelites did not use even the multiple-burial natural caves.

G. Mendenhall, “The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine,” Biblical Archaeologist 25 (1962), pp. 66–87; Robert Gordis, “Primitive Democracy in Ancient Israel,” in Gordis, Poets, Prophets and Sages (Bloomington: Indiana Univ., 1971), pp. 45–60; James L. Kelso, The Excavation at Bethel (Cambridge MA: ASOR, 1968); Gerhard Lenski, review of Norman K. Gottwald, The Tribes of Yahweh in Religious Studies Review 6 (1980), pp. 275–278.

Cross, “Reuben, First-Born of Jacob,” p. 62.

William G. Dever, “How to Tell a Canaanite from an Israelite?” in Hershel Shanks, ed., The Rise of Ancient Israel (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992), p. 54.

See C. Umhau Wolf, “Traces of Primitive Democracy in Ancient Israel,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 6 (1947), pp. 98–108; Joshua Berman, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008); William F. Albright, The Archaeology of Palestine (Harmondsworth, 1961); Frank M. Cross, “Reuben, First-Born of Jacob,” Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 100, Supplement (1988), pp. 46–65.

Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis and references.

Avraham Faust, “The Archaeology of the Israelite Cult: Questioning the Consensus,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 360 (2010), pp. 23–35 and bibliography.

Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis and many references.

Note that the limited repertoire is relevant only for the Iron I, and disappears in the transition to the Iron II.

Shlomo Bunimovitz and Assaf Yasur-Landau, “Philistine and Israelite Pottery: A Comparative Approach to the Question of Pots and People,” Tel-Aviv 23 (1996), p. 96.