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Our research project entitled “Comparative Studies of Burial Practices of Semitic Ancient Pastoral Nomads” shed light on Bronze Age cairn fields in the northwestern flank of Mt. Bishri, central Syria. A comparative study of a toggle pin from Burial Cairn No. 09 of Wadi Hedaja 1 enabled us to tentatively date them to a time range the end of Early Bronze Age to the beginning of Middle Bronze Age. This paper briefly discusses the dating from another viewpoint, namely, a chronological review of stone and faience beads. Their reexamination shows that the Bishri Bronze Age cairn fields include Types 3 and 16 beads of K. R. Maxwell-Hyslop’s classification, and that similar examples were also found at the Early to Middle Bronze Age settlements along the Middle Euphrates River Basin. Both observations revalidated our previous dating.
