Ancient Israel spans 8300 BC to Alexander the Great’s arrival in 332 BC and is located in the southern Levant. Syro-Phoenician = Syro-Canaanite = Syro-Palestinian = Levantine (coast). Periods are not defined just by material culture, but also by Egyptian dynasties. Neolithic Levant 8300 – 4500 BC Chalcolithic Levant 4300 – 3500 BC Bronze Age [...]