MBI People are surely the Wandering Israelites
Taken from Digging Up the Past http://www.diggingsonline.com/pages/rese/dyns/kings.htm ... But Dr Rudolph Cohen, recently retired Deputy Director of the Israel Antiquities Service has excavated for twenty five years in the Negev (southern Israel) including Kadesh Barnea where the Israelites stayed for 40 days while the twelve spies searched the promised land. He claims there is so much evidence for the presence of a large number of people there at the beginning of the MBI period that he is of the firm conviction that these were the migrating Israelites. In the July 1983 edition of Biblical Archaeology Review he wrote an article entitled "The Mysterious MBI People, in which he stated, "In fact, these MBI people may be the Israelites whose famous journey from Egypt to Canaan is called the Exodus." BAR p. 16. He even claims that, from the pottery they left behind, he could trace the route the Israelites took. He wrote, "It is interesting, however, to no