Getting a chance to look up details on the settling into the central Canaanite hill country at the time of the Exodus:
Archaeological surveys of the hill country, where Israel first settled, have largely been the work of Finkelstein’s and Zertal’s groups. The immediate pre-Israel population at roughly 4,000 jumps to about 20,000 or more within less than a century. Lemche (1985) thoroughly critiques the revolting peasant/tax evader ideas, though his own sociological ideas are rather weak on verification. The settlement trends east to west, as expected for a group of people coming in from the east. As for Europe, the sometimes violent incursions of more nomadic people from the east was a persistent nuisance for the more settled populations of richer agricultural areas.
While certain building and pottery styles seem to be especially typical of accepted Israelite sites, they are not unique to them. The general absence of pig bones in food refuse in the Canaanite hill country around the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition contrasts with Philistia and Ammon. Hesse, BASOR 1986 264:17 is one source on those.
Pharoah Merenptah records defeating Israel in 1209; a people group thus identified must have existed in Canaan by then. Kitchen suggests that Merenptah’s raid may have been in response to Canaanite cities failing to provide tribute due to Israelite raids disrupting the supply of produce to pay it with.
Culturally, the setting of Exodus through Judges fits with the late 2nd millennium BC.