Placed in the southwest corner of the Tel, area S1 has been excavated for 7 seasons with the main goal of anchoring the stratigraphy of the site and the chronology of each layer, revealing its history from the surface to the earliest periods of the site’s inhabitance.
Thus the deepest cut in Tel Azekah was created in area S1. Its height from the current surface of the mound to the bottom of the section is 11 meters! It reveals the 20 different settlement phases which were dug in the area.
The sequence of layers four meters deep from the top of the section represents the site’s inhabitance from the present day to the Late Bronze Age III.
The main goal in the 2023 excavation season was to locate and identify the destruction layer from the end of the Middle Bronze Age, remove it, and go down in the deep fillings that were placed during this period above the early stages of the Early Bronze Age.
The section created, which is approximately 7 meters deep, is intended to provide a glimpse into the history of the site in this early period and the location of its various phases.
Do you want to learn more about what was discovered by it on Early Bronze Age Azekah? Check out the post on The “Window” to the Early Bronze Age in Tel Azekah !
The Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition 