The main street crossing the city south-west/north-east was one of the Sultan IIIb features kept in this period, as the excavations in Area F, on the northern plateau of the tell, demonstrated. Here, a huge portion of the dwelling quarter extending to the west and to the east of the street running north-east, at this stage named L.307[18], was brought to light. Eight domestic units (from south to north, L.450, L.323, L.319, L.305+L.327, L.303, L.403+L.405, L.445, L.904) in a fairly good state of preservation were exposed on the eastern side of the street, and one more unit (L.444) was uncovered on its western side. Only L.904 opened directly towards the street, through a doorway (L.902) with a raised threshold paved with three stone slabs. Further to the north, the street was brought to light up to the edge of denudation of previous excavations[19], thus showing that the it turned slightly towards north-east. Architecture shows the use of mud-bricks on field-stones foundations only at the moment of the first erection of buildings. In the following reconstructions, walls were raised horizontally, and new mud-brick structures were built directly upon them without stone foundations. This made obviously quite complicated to investigate the constructional  history of each house, also because the same houses were repaired many times and continuously used with varying layouts. Each domestic unit was provided with a hearth and various working installations, such as benches, cutting and grinding slabs, pulping holes. Another common architectural feature is the use of timber as pillars, often inserted within walls, or freestanding on stone bases, as known in many other Palestinian sites.

Findings belong to the ordinary domestic assemblage, mainly illustrating food production and preparation: flint blades and sickles, stone pestles and grinding stones. Faunal remains, among which several bones belonging to butchered animals, show an integrated diet of tamed animals (sheep and goats, but also bovines), and wild species, such as gazelle and wild boar. A hippopotamus bone, found in the 1998 campaign, deserves a particular interest; cutting marks indicate that it was butchered in the house. The presence of such an animal in the Jericho Oasis not only is the latest attestation in inland Palestine, but also testifies to the abundance of water sources in the Lower Jordan Valley, especially by the �Ain es-Sultan and the nearby �Ain el-Lodjia[20]. The bull�s head found by John Garstang and made of hippopotamus tusk ivory may be, thus, locally manufactured[21], as well as another similar specimen from an unknown spot of the site.

Other domestic activities are testified to by items such as worked bones, bone and copper pins, and loom weights and spindle whorls related to household textile production. Clay disks may be interpreted as counterweights used in weaving activities, as they were found together with spindle whorls and loom weights[22]; sea-shells and mother-of-pearl fragments hint at commercial links with the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Especially, sea-shells have a large attestation, being often pierced at their hinge, presumably in order to be hung in laces. Due to their high number in EB III contexts, anyway, it has been also suggested that they were used as counters or represented some sort of tallying system in a kind of pre-administrative procedures[23]. Actually, the existence of a productive system coordinated by a central administration is perhaps more consistently demonstrated by findings such as balance weights[24] (of 2 shekels and 1 mine), which are possibly related to metal and other precious stuff (sulphur, salt, ointments, drugs, bitumen, etc.) exchange.