“…Their elevations are over 100m above or below sea level (Table 2). The material culture associations of these settlements are distinct from those on the coast in the Bronze and Iron Ages, reflecting the geopolitical realities of regional powers and ethnocultural centers in the inland southern Levant during these eras (see Supplement S1 for further details) (Mazar et al, 2005;Panitz-Cohen et al, 2013;Ben-Tor, 2016;Ben-Tor et al, 2017;Yahalom-Mack et al, 2018). Previous zooarchaeological analyses from these tells suggest animal economies based on ovicaprids that range from traditional agropastoralism to proximate producer/consumer scenarios (Marom et al, 2009(Marom et al, , 2014(Marom et al, , 2020Marom and Zuckerman, 2012).…”