Shiqmona / Tell a-Samakh: A Late Bronze Age Temple Site and Iron Age Purple Dye Production Facility in Southern Phoenicia. Excavations by Joseph Elgavish 1963-1977.

Ayelet Gilboa is an archaeologist teaching at the Department of Archaeology of the University of Haifa. She served as Chair of the Department between 2007–2009 and Head of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at this university from 2018–2020. She co-directs the Tel Dor Excavations and Publication Project in Israel and directs the Shiqmona Publication project (Josheph Elgavish Excavations). Her main interests are cross-Mediterranean interconnections, Phoenicians, Sea Peoples, Iron Age ceramics, Iron Age chronology, methodology of archaeological site reports, and the symbolic properties of material culture. She has published extensively on these issues and won several prestigious grants.