Editing History of Israel (section)

===Periodisation===
Here is one of the more common periodisations.
* [[Stone Age]] (pre-4500 BCE): hunter-gatherer societies, slowly evolving into farming and herding societies
** Palaeolithic
*** Epipalaeolithic
*** {{main|Epipalaeolithic Near East}}
**** Early
**** Middle
**** Late. See [[Natufian culture]] (15,000-11,500 BP)<ref>{{Cite book |last= Grosman |first= Leore |title= Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia |publisher= [[Berghahn Books]] |year= 2013 |isbn= 978-1-879621-45-9 |editor1= [[Ofer Bar-Yosef]] |editor2= François R. Valla |edition= 1 |location= New York |pages= 622–627 |chapter= The Natufian Chronological Scheme – New Insights and their Implications |doi= 10.2307/j.ctv8bt33h |jstor= j.ctv8bt33h |chapter-url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv8bt33h |archive-date= 30 January 2022 |access-date= 20 June 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220130095803/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv8bt33h |url-status= live }}</ref>
** Neolithic
*** Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN)
**** [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic A]] (PPNA)
**** [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic B]] (PPNB)
**** [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic C]] (PPNC)
*** Late Neolithic
**** Pottery Neolithic A (PNA)
***** [[Yarmukian culture]]
***** [[Lodian culture|Lodian (Jericho IX) culture]]
**** Pottery Neolithic B (PNB)
***** [[Wadi Rabah culture]]
***** [[Timnian culture]] in southern&nbsp;Negev&nbsp;(and&nbsp;Sinai); pastoralist, persists through to the Bronze Age
* [[Chalcolithic#Near East|Chalcolithic]] (4500–3500 BCE): early metal-working and farming; see [[Timna Valley]]