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Adam Zertal, The Israelite Settlement in the Hill Country of Manasseh, Ph.D. thesis, Tel Aviv Univ., 1986, pp. 175–200 (in Hebrew).

Magen Broshi and R. Gophna, “Middle Bronze Age II Palestine: Settlements and Population,” BASOR 261 (1986), pp. 73–90.

See, for example, certain similarities in the pottery assemblages of Izbet Sartah, which was probably an Israelite village, and those of Aphek, an Egypto-Canaanite urban center. Incidentally, the degree of similarity between Israelite material culture and the preceding Canaanite material culture should be evaluated at indisputably Israelite sites, and not at borderline or questionable sites such as Tel Masos.

G. W. Ahlström, “The Early Iron Age Settlers at Khirbet el-Msas (Tel Masos),” Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 100 (1984), pp. 35–52; “Giloh: A Judahite or Canaanite Settlement?” Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ) 34 (1984), pp. 170–172.

Finkelstein, ‘Izbet Sartah: An Early Iron Age Site near Rosh Ha‘ayin, Israel (Oxford, UK: BAR International Series 299, 1986), pp. 124–128.

For the end of the third millennium B.C., see William G. Dever, “New Vistas on EB IV (“MB I”) Horizon in Syria-Palestine,” BASOR 237 (1980), pp. 35–64.

George E. Mendenhall, “The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine,” Biblical Archaeologist (BA) 25 (1962), pp. 66–87; Norman K. Gottwald, The Tribes of Yahweh (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1979).

Albrecht Alt, “Erwägungen über die Landnahme Israeliten in Palästina,” Palästina Jahrbuch 35 (1939), pp. 8–63; Yohanan Aharoni, The Archaeology of the Land of Israel (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1982), pp. 153–180.

William F. Albright, “The Israelite Conquest of Canaan in the Light of Archaeology,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) 74 (1939), pp. 11–23; Yigael Yadin, “The Transition from a Semi-Nomadic to a Sedentary Society in the Twelfth Century B.C.E.,” in Symposia, ed. Frank Moore Cross (Cambridge, MA: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1979), pp. 57–68.

For my views on the usage of the term “Israelite” for the Iron I period, see Israel Finkelstein, The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988), pp. 27–28.