Sponsored Projects 1997-2019
The Tel Nagila Publication Project
Published 2025. Please visit the publication's webpage. Tel Nagila is a multi-period site situated on the western bank of Nahal Shiqma in the southern coastal plain. The most intensive occupation occurred during the Middle Bronze Age IIB-C period, when a...
The Sanctuary of Mt. Juktas. The Middle Minoan III A-B Complex at Alonaki. Architecture, Pottery, Objects and Character
Peak sanctuaries constitute an important subject for the understanding of Cretan Protopalatial and Neopalatial religion and social trends. It should be pointed out that although dozens of peak sanctuaries in Crete have been excavated and looted, none has...
1923-25 Palestine Exploration Fund Excavations at the City of David, Jerusalem, Israel
PUBLISHED 2024. Please visit the publication's webpage. The project will present for the first time all the information from the P.E.F. excavation of this critical area of Jerusalem. The resulting publication will make a significant contribution to the...
Final Publication of Late Bronze IIb from Tel Nami: 1986-1992 excavations
Vol. I: Sanctuary, Cult and Metal Recycling Vol. II: Cemetery and International Connections The excavations of Tel Nami and its environs, in Israel, exhibit contacts with the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, coastal Syria, coastal Anatolia, coastal Egypt...
Bronze and Iron Age Material from Tel Akko, Areas A, AB, and H
PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage . The multi-period site of Tel Akko is located on the northern Mediterranean coast of Israel at a confluence of ancient trade routes along both sea and land. As a gateway city, Akko was central in...
The "Sea" and "Harbor" Gates of Akko: Publication of Areas F and P, Israel
The goal of this project is to analyze and publish the stratigraphic data and finds from these remaining unprocessed areas of Tel 'Akko, and synthesize the results with these other areas, and in a broader eastern Mediterranean historical and...
Final Report on Ambelikou-Aletri,Cyprus
Anne E. Dunn-Vaturi, 2004 In 1942, the Department of Antiquities, carried out a number of trial excavations in the locality of Aletri west of the Ambelikou mine shafts, in the northern foothills of the Trodoos Massif. The most important evidence revealed...
Maroni Tsaroukkas: Elements of a Late Bronze Age Polity in Southern Cyprus
Sturt W. Manning, 2003 Maroni Tsaroukkas (and associated toponyms Aspres, Kapsaloudhia and Vournes) is one of the set of large Late Cypriot coastal sites-polities that emerge on Cyprus in the Late Cypriot I-IIC periods, c.1650-1200BC. It is a c.35ha total...
The Polychrome Floor Mosaics, Opus Sectile Floors and Architecture of the Eustolios Complex at Kourion, Cyprus
David W. Rupp, 2004 Near the southeastern end of the akropolis of the Early Hellenistic through Early Byzantine city of Kourion, on the south coast of Cyprus, a monumental peristyle courtyard complex with associated bath suite was built in the late 360s A...
Shiqmim: Subterranean Settlement & Society, Negev Desert Israel, ca. 4500-3500 B.C.E.
PUBLISHED 2023. Please also visit the publication's webpage . The Chalcolithic period (ca. 4500–3600 BCE) in the southern Levant represents the rise of regional polities, the metallurgical revolution, and a set of other significant socio-economic changes...
The Smithsonian Institution Excavation at Tell Jemmeh, Israel, 1970 - 1990
PUBLISHED 2014. Please visit the publication's webpage This project is part of an effort towards the final publication of excavations at Tell Jemmeh. Tell Jemmeh (Tel Re'im) is in the northwestern Negev desert about 10 km south of Gaza (map reference 097...
Desert Chiefdom: Dimensions of Subterranean Settlement and Society in Israel's Negev Desert (c. 4500 – 3600 BCE) Based on New Data from Shiqmim
PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage . This proposal seeks support to prepare a book-length publication concerning the Phase II excavations at Shiqmim, the largest and most deeply stratified Chalcolithic (ca. 4500 - 3500 BCE) site in...
Study of 1929-1931 C.F.A. Schaeffer Excavations
PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. More than three hundred objects and fragments of objects found at Ras Shamra and Minet el-Beida by C.F.A. Schaeffer during the first years of his excavations are stored in the showcases and reserves...
Sha'ar Hagolan
This project will yield final publication of the data collected during Y. Garfinkel's 11 years of excavation (1989-90, 1996-2004) at the 8,000-year-old Neolithic site of Sha'ar Hagolan the site is located in the central Jordan Valley of Israel, 1.5 miles...
Excavations directed by Paul Courbin from 1971 to 1984 at the site of Ras el-Bassit
PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. This grant is intended for the publication of the final report, in three volumes, of the excavations directed by Paul Courbin from 1971 to 1984 at the site of Ras el-Bassit, which lies along the...
Nineveh: Assyrian Pottery from the Lower Town, Iraq
PUBLISHED 2022. Please also visit the publication's webpage. The ancient city, one of the most important and oldest in Mesopotamia, was the last great capital of the Assyrian empire. Dominating the site is the high mound known as Kuyunjik, which may have...
El Qitar/Til Abnu: A Bronze Age Fortress on the Euphrates, Syria
PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's webpage . Located along the River Euphrates, in modern-day Syria, el-Qitar was a mountain fortress of the Middle Bronze Age. Excavations, fully analysed in this volume for the first time, revealed extensive...
Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Cyclades, Greece
Published 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage. This grant will support research and manuscript preparation for the publication of the Mycenaean pottery excavated on the acropolis of the Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Cyclades, Greece. While its...