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Of course our multi-dimensional approach makes the Abrahamic era complex. We know he was a contemporary of Ur III Mesopotamia, of 10th dynasty Egypt (Old Kingdom). The Jemdet Nasr Dispersion had already swept through and EBA had begun, with the major forts in Palestine being built at the time. But the Hurrian-Cretans were already at Alalakh before the Dispersion (can we trace them back to Mesopotamia?). And, at En-geddi, the Amorites were in Chalcolithic mode.
In later times, in the days of Joshua, the Amorites and Canaanites opposed the arriving Israelites but Hoham, the king of Hebron, was defeated and Hebron (Tell Rumeida) conquered, Joshua 10:3-19,36-37. But it was 85 year old Caleb, who, because of his faith, was given the mountains of Hebron, Josh. 14:11,12. Hebron's tomb4 was the location where some eight burials were found. Inside archaeologists found over a hundred complete or restorable pottery vessels, jewelry, Hyksos period scarabs, toggle pins, a large, 10 inch long wide bladed dagger with a tennis-ball limestone pommel into which a handle of wood had once been inserted. [For images of a scarab, a few pottery, an 8th cent. BC Hezekiah like jar handle stamp of `Belonging to the King of Hebron' and that of the knife in particular see Jeffrey Chadwick, `Discovering Hebron' in BAR, Sep 2005, p. 24-33.] The Hyksos/Amalekite scarabs would indicate that this tomb was in use sometime during the period between after the Exodus, probably after the conquest of Jericho, and King Saul or David.
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Crawl out of this tomb