In the third season of excavation at Tel Harassim the ruins of a three-roomed house from Stratum Vb, Area E, were revealed. The house is divided into three long rooms by two rows of pillars, apparently of wood, which were erected on stone pillar bases. All the rooms were plastered, the two side rooms were roofed. The central room was unroofed and served as a courtyard. On the floors of the house a rich ceramic assemblage was found, including some imported Cypriot and Mycenaean sherds. The pottery assmblage is dated to the second half of the fourteenth century BCE. At Tel Batash 7 km. to the north-east, a three-room house was exposed in Stratum VIII, which is dated to the fourteenth century BCE. The size and the plan of the houses in Tel Harassim and Tel Batash is very similar. It can be seen that these three-roomed houses from Tel Harassim and Tel Batash are the predecessors of the four-roomed houses from the Iron Age, and it strengthens the view which sees the material culture of the early Israelites as derived from Canaanite culture.