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 [Hardback]

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.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Early Deposits on the East Slope
Chapter 3. Artifacts from the East Slope
Chapter 4. Sealings, Potters’ Marks, and Potmarks from the East Slope
Chapter 5. The Chipped Stone Collection from the Oriental Institute’s Excavation of the East Slope and the High Mound
Chapter 6. The Early Bronze Age Tombs of Megiddo — A Reappraisal
Chapter 7. Human Activity on the East Slope — A Summary
Appendix 1. Locations of Loci According to the 5 x 5 Meter Grid
Appendix 2. Locations of Walls According to the 5 x 5 Meter Grid and in Illustrations
Appendix 3. Megiddo East Slope Locus Register, Based on Notebooks and Locus/Object Cards and Photographs in the Oriental Institute