Human settlement activities are connected with the accumulation of nutrients in
archaeological soils. We address the question of whether the large-scale mapping of the …

Subsistence patterns during the Early Bronze Age I through the Iron Age II (3600-586 BCE)
are the topic of many archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological studies. The results of these …

Excavations at Tel Burna, Israel, have uncovered portions of a large structure from the Late
Bronze Age IIB, yielding numerous finds that suggest ritual and cultic practices occurred in …

Four figurines were discovered in Late Bronze Age IIB Tel Burna in the Judean Shephelah.
The figurines come from a large public building that probably had a cultic function. These …

The Shephelah, known as the breadbasket of the southern Levant, is one of the more
extensively investigated regions of the southern Levant in terms of archaeobotanical …

The Brazil nut effect (BNE) is a physical phenomenon by which large granular particles (ie,
archaeological artifacts) in a bed of small disturbed particles (ie, soil), rise to the top …

This is the first monograph dedicated to the site of Socoh in the Judean Shephelah. Our
research was initiated in 2010 as an intensive survey by the Institute of Archaeology …

Tel Burna is located in the region of the Judean Shephelah of Israel. The settlement was
continuously occupied from the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Iron Age (Uziel and …

Over twenty years ago, N. Na'aman (1996) presented a seminal study in which he paralleled
10th Century BCE Jerusalem to that of Jerusalem of the el-Amarna period. In both periods …

Over the last decade, new excavations (see below) and the publication of survey materials
(cf. Dagan 2000, 2010, 2011b) have shown that the Late Bronze Age (LB) was a period of …