ABSTRACT
One of the major practical, though not methodological, obstacles in the identification of the Israelites with some traits of the central highland's material culture is that there is a great similarity between these finds and those in the highlands of Transjordan (see, e.g., Finkelstein 1996a: 200, 204, 205, 208). Though this issue was treated earlier in several places, I believe it deserves a short discussion here on its own.
