Final Publication for the Fourth Expedition to Lachish 2013–2017

Sha'ar Hagolan

Yosef Garfinkel studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Archaeology and Geography (B.A.), Prehistory and Biblical Archaeology (M.A.) and completed his PhD on the Pottery Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods. Since 1993 he has been teaching archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Periods at the Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Yale University, Oxford University, Cambridge University and Kings College in London. Over the years he conducted excavations at various Proto-historic sites in Israel: Yiftahel, Gesher, Tel Ali, Sha'ar Hagolan, Neolithic Ashkelon and Tel Tsaf.

In the years 2007 to 2013 he excavated at Khirbet Qeiyafa, where, for the first time in the archaeology of Israel, a fortified city from the early 10th century BC was uncovered. In the years 2015 to 2021 he excavated at Khirbet al-Ra'i, another site in Judah, dated mainly to the 12^th to 10^th centuries BC. In the years 2013 to 2017 he excavated at Tel Lachish, the second most important city in Judah, after Jerusalem.