It is characterized by defensive hilltop settlements.
Often protected by defensive walls, steep embankments, or cliffs, such hilltop settlements provided natural defenses for their inhabitants.
It was a prehistoric to medieval hilltop settlement.
Across the creek bed is the Israeli hilltop settlement of Misgavan.
The oldest trace of a settlement in the municipality is the neolithic hilltop settlement at Bürglenhubel.
Fortified hilltop settlements become common in the Urnfield period.
The site at Karanovo itself was a hilltop settlement of 18 buildings, housing some 100 inhabitants.
Most people living in scattered farms or in isolated hilltop agricultural settlements.
Llantrisant is a hilltop settlement, at an altitude of 174 m (565 ft) above sea level.
Around 1750, it is now clear, slaving, trade, violence, the use of defensive hilltop settlement, and more centralised and militarised groupings were developing.
