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...

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...

Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir) was a major Canaanite city in the second millennium BCE, and the second most important city in the kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem. The top of the large mound covers an area of 7.5 hectares. The main interest of our expedition was Level V, the first Iron Age city at the site. We uncovered a previously unknown city-wall of Level V, dated radiometrically to the late 10^th century BC. This clarifies the debate about when Lachish was first fortified in the Iron Age. A rich destruction level was found in Level...

The project focuses on the final publication of the excavations at the Fortress Mound at Tel Arad, located on the northern edge of the Beersheba–Arad Valley in southern Israel (162^o North, 075^o East). During the 1960s, a team directed by Y. Aharoni exposed a sequence of 13 strata: the lowest (Stratum XIII) belonged to a mid-3^rd millennium BCE city, superimposed by the remains of a village...