Footnotes

1.

See Claire Epstein, “Before History: The Golan’s Chalcolithic Heritage,BAR 21:06.

2.

See Yonathan Mizrachi, “Mystery Circles,BAR 18:04; Mattanyah Zohar, “Unlocking the Mystery of Rogem Hiri,BAR 19:04.

3.

See Rami Arav, Richard A. Freund and John F. Shroder, Jr., “Bethsaida Rediscovered,BAR 26:01.

4.

See Molly Dewsnap, “Chalcolithic Treasures,” sidebar to “Before History,BAR 21:06.

5.

See also Michael Balter, “Discovering Catalhoyuk,Archaeology Odyssey 08:03.

6.

See Edward L. Greenstein, “Texts from Ugarit Solve Biblical Puzzles,BAR 36:06.

Endnotes

1.

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (New York: Bantam Books, 2010), p. 5.

2.

I wish to thank the excavator of these sites, Michael Freikman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for sharing this information.

3.

Mattanyah Zohar, “Rogem Hiri: A Megalithic Monument in the Golan,” Israel Exploration Journal 39 (1989), pp. 18–31.

4.

Gerald S. Hawkins, Stonehenge Decoded (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967); Alexander Thom, Megalithic Sites in Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967).

5.

Claire Epstein, The Chalcolithic Culture of the Levant (Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1998), p. 334.

6.

Rivka Gonen, “The Chalcolithic Period,” in Amnon Ben Tor, ed., The Archaeology of Ancient Israel (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1992), p. 68.

7.

Epstein, Chalcolithic Culture, pp. 334–337.

8.

James Mellaart, Çatal Hüyük: A Neolithic Town in Anatolia (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967).