| 1971 |
Educational excavation at Tel Beer-sheba, under Prof. Y. Aharoni |
| 1972-74 |
Archaeological surveys in Sinai, under Dr. Z. Meshel |
| 1973-78 |
Area Supervisor, Aphek excavations |
| 1976-78 |
Field Director, the Izbet Sartah excavations |
| 1976-78 |
Director of the archaeological survey of Byzantine monastic remains in Southern Sinai |
| 1977 |
Director of the rescue excavations at the mound of ancient Bene-Beraq |
| 1979-80 |
Co-director of the Tel Ira excavations |
| 1980-87 |
Director of the Southern Samaria Survey |
| 1981-84 |
Director of the Shiloh excavations |
| 1985-86 |
Director of the Kh. ed-Dawwara excavations |
| 1987 |
Director of the Dhahr Mirzbaneh excavation |
| 1992-present |
Co-director, the Megiddo Excavations |
| 1995, 1999 |
Co-director, the Megiddo Regional Survey |
| 2006 |
Co-director, excavations at Atar Haroa, the Negev Highlands |
Current Projects
Selected Publications
Books
Finkelstein, I., Ussishkin, D. and Halpern, B. (eds.). 2006. Megiddo IV: The 1998-2002 Seasons. (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University No. 24). Tel Aviv.
Finkelstein, I. and Silberman, N.A. 2006. David and Solomon, In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition. New York.
Finkelstein, I. and Silberman, N.A. 2001. The Bible Unearthed, Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origins of Its Sacred Texts. New York.
Finkelstein, I., Ussishkin, D. and Halpern, B. (eds.). 2000. Megiddo III: The 1992-1996 Seasons. (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University No. 18) Tel Aviv.
Finkelstein, I. 1995. Living on the Fringe: The Archaeology and History of the Negev, Sinai and Neighbouring Regions in Bronze and Iron Ages. (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 6). Sheffield.
Finkelstein, I. and Na'aman, N. (eds.) 1994. From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel. Jerusalem.
Finkelstein, I., Lederman, Z. and Bunimovitz, S. 1993. Highlands of Many Cultures The Southern Sumaria Survey: The Sites. (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University No. 14). Tel Aviv.
Finkelstein, I. (ed.) 1993. Archaeological Survey in the Hill Country of Benjamin. Jerusalem.
Finkelstein, I. (ed.) 1993. Shiloh: The Archaeology of a Biblical Site. (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University No. 10). Tel Aviv.
Finkelstein, I. 1988. The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement. Jerusalem.
Finkelstein, I. 1986. Izbet Sartah: An Early Iron Age Site Near Rosh Haayin, Israel. (BAR International Series 299). Oxford.
Selected Recent Articles
I. Finkelstein, The Philistine Settlements: When, Where and How Many, in E. Oren (ed.), The Sea Peoples and their World: A Reassessment. Philadelphia 2000, pp. 159-180.
I. Finkelstein, Omride Architecture, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 116 (2000), pp. 114-138.
I. Finkelstein, Hazor XII-XI with an Addendum on Ben-Tor's Dating of Hazor X-VII, Tel Aviv 27 (2000), pp. 231-247.
I. Finkelstein, The Rise of Jerusalem and Judah: The Missing Link, Levant 33 (2001), pp. 105-115.
I. Finkelstein and L. Singer Avitz, Ashdod Revisited, Tel Aviv 28 (2001), pp. 231-259.
I. Finkelstein, Archaeology and Text in the Third Millennium: A View from the Center, Congress Volume Basel 2001 (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 92), Leiden 2002, pp. 323-342.
I. Finkelstein, The Campaign of Shoshenq I to Palestine: A Guide to the 10th Century BCE Polity. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 118 (2002), pp. 109-135.
I. Finkelstein, Gezer Revisited and Revised, Tel Aviv 29 (2002), pp. 262-296.
I. Finkelstein, The Philistines in the Bible: A Late-Monarchic Perspective, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 27(2) (2002), pp. 131-167.
I. Finkelstein, El-Ahwat: A Fortified Sea People City? Israel Exploration Journal 52 (2002), pp. 187-199.
I. Finkelstein, Chronology Rejoinders, Palestine Exploration Quarterly 134 (2002), pp. 128-139.
Y. Goren, I. Finkelstein and N. Na'aman, The Expansion of the Kingdom of Amurru according to the Petrographic Investigation of the Amarna Tablets, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 329 (2003), pp. 2-11.
Y. Goren, S. Bunimovitz, I. Finkelstein and N. Na'aman, The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets, American Journal of Archaeology 107 (2003), pp. 233-255.
I. Finkelstein, City States and States: Polity Dynamics in the 10th-9th Centuries B.C.E, in W.G. Dever and S. Gitin (eds.), Symbiosis, Symbolism and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, Winona Lake 2003, pp. 75-83.
I. Finkelstein and E. Piasetzky, Recent Radiocarbon Results and King Solomon, Antiquity 77 (2003), pp. 771-779.
I. Finkelstein, Tel Rehov and Iron Age Chronology, Levant 36 (2004), pp. 181-188.
I. Finkelstein and N. Na'aman, The Shephelah of Judah in the Late 8th and Early 7th Century BCE: An Alternative View, Tel Aviv 31 (2004), pp. 60-79.
I. Finkelstein, From Canaanites to Israelites: When, How and Why, in E. Gabba a.o. (eds.), Recenti tendenze nella ricostruzione della storia antica d'Israele, Rome 2005 (Accademia Nazionale dei lincei), pp. 11-27.
I. Finkelstein, Khirbat en-Nahas, Edom and Biblical History, Tel Aviv 32 (2005), pp. 119-125.
I. Finkelstein and N. Na'aman, Shechem of the Amarna Period and the Rise of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Israel Exploration Journal 55, pp. 172-193.
I. Finkelstein, A Low Chronology Update: Archaeology, History and Bible, in T. Levy and T. Higham (eds.), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science, London 2005, pp. 31-42.
I. Finkelstein, Shechem in the Late Bronze Age, in E. Czerny a.o. (eds.), Timelines: Studies in Hornour of Mandred Bietak, Vienna 2006, pp. 349-356.
I. Finkelstein and N.A. Silberman, Temple and Dynasty: Hezekiah, the Remaking of Judah and the Rise of the Pan-Israelite Ideology, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 30(3) (2006), pp. 259-285.
A. Fantalkin and I. Finkelstein, The Sheshonq I Campaign and the 8th Century Earthquake: More on the Archaeology and History of the South in the Iron I-Iron IIA, Tel Aviv 33 (2006), pp. 18-42.
E. Zapassky, I. Finkelstein and I. Benenson, Ancient Standards of Volume: Negevite Iron Age Pottery (Israel) as a Case Study in 3D Modeling, Journal of Archaeological Science 33 (2006), pp. 1734-1743.
I. Finkelstein and E. Piasetzky, The Iron I-IIA in the Highlands and Beyond: 14C Anchors, Pottery Phases and the Shoshenq I Campaign, Levant 38 (2006), pp. 45-61.
I. Finkelstein, The Last Labayu: King Saul and the Expansion of the First North Israelite Territorial Entity, in Y. Amit, E. Ben Zvi, I. Finkelstein and O. Lipschits (eds.), Essays on Ancient Israel in its Near Eastern Context, A Tribute to Nadav Na'aman, Winona Lake 2006, pp. 171-177.
I. Finkelstein and E. Piasetzky, E. 14C and the Iron Age Chronology Debate: Rehov, Khirbet en-Nahas, Dan and Megiddo. Radiocarbon 48(3) (2006), pp. 373-386.
I. Finkelstein, [De]formation of the Israelite State: A Rejoinder on Methodology, Near Eastern Archaeology 68 (2005), pp. 202-208.
MA Students
Alon Shavit, 1992. The Ayalon Valley and Its Vicinity during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Dan Gazit, 1995. The Besor Region in the Iron Age I cccording to Analysis of the Pottery from Stratum VIII at Tel Sera'.
Aharon Sasson, 1996. The Pastoral Element in the Economy in Intermediate Bronze and Iron I Sites in the Highlands: An Archaeological-Ethnographic Perspective.
Edtal Levi, 1998. Geographical Information System for Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Sites: Development, Programming and Application in Archaeological Data (co-supervisor - Itzhak Benenson).
Yuval Gadot, 1999. The Wadi 'Ara Pass as an International Highway during the Bronze Age, Iron Age and the Persian Period, in the Light of the Settlement Patterns (co-supervisor - David Ussishkin).
Alexander Fantalkin, 2000. Mesad Hashaviahu: Analysis of the Material Culture and Its Contribution to Historical Reconstruction at the end of the Iron Age (co-supervisor - Nadav Na'aman).
Yifat Thareani-Sussely, 2002. Core and Periphery - A Case Study: The Arad Beersheba Valley at the End of the Iron Age. (co-supervisor - Nadav Na'aman).
Eyal Buzaglo, 2004. Petrographic Investigation of Iron Age Pottery Assemblages from Megiddo and the North (co-supervisor - Yuval Goren).
Eran Arie, 2004. "Then I went down to the potter's house": Intra-site Spatial Analysis in the Pottery of Megiddo VIA.
Elena Zahavi-Cogan. 2007. The Assyrian Residency at Ashdod (co-supervisor - Nadav Naaman).
Keren Ras, in preparation, The Impact of the Assyrian Rule on the Rural Countryside in Northern
Palestine: Settlement Dynamics under Imperial Control.
Roni Zuckerman, in preparation,
Archaeozoology of an early Iron age Rural Village: A View from 'Izbet Sartah' (co-supervisor - Guy Bar-Oz).
Ph.D. Students
Yitzhak Meitlis, 1997. The Judean Hill Country in the Middle Bronze Age.
David Ilan, 1999. Northeastern Israel in the Iron Age I: Cultural, Economic and Political Structures and Transformations.
Assaf Yasur-Landau, 2003. Social Aspects of Aegean Settlement in the Southern Levant at the End of the Second Millennium BCE (co-supervisors - Shlomo Bunimovitz and Irad Malkin).
Alon Shavit, 2004. Settlement Patterns in the Southern Coastal Plain in the Iron II.
Yuval Gadot, 2004. Tel Aphek at the End of the Late Bronze Age and the Beginning of the Iron Age: Typological, Chronological and Cultural Implications. (co-supervisor - Moshe Kochavi).
Aharon Sasson, 2004. The Faunal Assemblage from Iron II Beer-Sheba (co-supervisors - Tamar Dayan and Ze'ev Herzog).
Norma Franklin, 2006. State Formation in the Northern Kingdom of Israel: Some Tangible Symbols of Statehood (co-supervisor - Nadav Na'aman).
Liora Kolska-Horwitz, 2006. A Diachronic Study of Patterns of Animal Exploitation in the Sinai Peninsula (co-supervisor - Eitan Tchernow).
Alexander Fantalkin. 2008. The Contacts between the Greek World and the Southern Levant, ca. 1000-538 BCE (co-supervisor - Irad Malkin).
Amir Sumakai-Fink. 2010. The Later Strata at Alalakh (co-supervisor - Nadav Na'aman).
Yifat Thareani-Sussely, in preparation. Towns in the Desert: Geographical, Economic and Sociopolitical Perspectives (co-supervisor - Nadav Na'aman).
Arad Haggi, in preparation. Levantine Ports in the 9th and 8th Centuries BCE: Archaeology and Historical Considerations (Haifa University, co-supervisor - Michal Artzi).
Deborah O. Cantrell, in preparation. The Horsemen of Israel: A Study of the Use of Horses in Monarchic Israel (9th -7th Centuries BCE) (Vanderbilt University, first reader: Jack Sasson; second reader: Douglas Knight; other co-readers: Robert Drews and Robin Jensen).
Eran Arie, in preparation. "In the Land of the Valley": Settlement, Social and Cultural Processes in the Jezreel Valley from the End of the Late Bronze Age to the Formation of the Monarchy.
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