The aim of the article is to analyse the settlement pattern of the Philistines in early Iron Age. The Philistine settlement-model, with the domination of large cities, and the net of small dwellings around, was paralleled to the Christaller’s “Central Place Theory”. This type of settlement was compared to the late Bronze Age city-states system in Palestine and early Iron Age Etruria. The above-mentioned analysis allows seeing cities as the main place of cultural exchange between Philistine and Canaanite cultures.
