The Philistines expand, several decades settling in…
1197 BCE to 1054 BCE
The Philistines expand, several decades settling in Canaan and after the collapse of Egyptian authority here, into surrounding areas such as the Yarkon region to the north (the area of modern Jaffa, where there are Philistine farmsteads at Tel Gerisa and Aphek, and a larger settlement at Tel Qasile).