Historical place profile
Yiftahel
An archaeological site of the Lower Galilee in northern Israel, Yiftahel has evidence for occupation beginning in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. By the early Bronze Age the settlement consisted of approximately 20 oval structures. Excavations took place here between 1992 and 2008.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:880264862
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:880264862
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.755375, 35.227725
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An archaeological site of the Lower Galilee in northern Israel, Yiftahel has evidence for occupation beginning in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. By the early Bronze Age the settlement consisted of approximately 20 oval structures. Excavations took place here between 1992 and 2008.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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