Early Megiddo on the East Slope (The ‘Megiddo Stages’)

A Report on the Early Occupation of the East Slope of Megiddo. Result of the Oriental Institute's Excavations, 1925-1933

by Eliot Braun, David Ilan, Ofer Marder, Yael Braun and Sariel Shalev

Book cover: Early Megiddo on the East Slope (The ‘Megiddo Stages’)

Extent: 156 pages

Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Oriental Institute Publications

Series volume number: 139

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(February 2014)

ISBN: 9781885923981

Price: $39.95

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This report completes publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy (1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and P. L. O. Guy and Robert M. Engberg (1938) on the earliest utilization and occupation of the slope at the southeast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim).


This report completes prior publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy (1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and P. L. O. Guy and Robert M. Engberg (1938) on the earliest utilization and occupation of the slope at the southeast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim). That area, labeled by the excavators the “East Slope,” and identified by them in their notations as “ES,” was excavated by the Oriental Institute between the years 1925, when work commenced, and 1933, when the last of it was apparently cleared down to bedrock. While the primary focus of this report is on Square U16 (an area of 25 25 m), where most of the early remains (i.e., of the Early Bronze Age and earlier) excluding tombs were encountered, this work also deals with the later remains within that same, limited precinct.

  • By (author) Eliot Braun
  • By (author) Yael Braun
  • By (author) David Ilan
  • By (author) Ofer Marder
  • By (author) Sariel Shalev