Past Projects and Excavations
Excavations and Surveys
- Ancient Water-Supply Systems
- Tel Aphek
- Desert Fortresses
- The Eastern Negev in the Iron Age
- Tel Gerisa
- Tel Kabri
- Silwan, Jerusalem
- Betar
- Tel Jezreel
- Tel Lachish
- Tel 'Eton
Cultural and Linguistics Projects
Other Researches
Ancient Water-Supply Systems
Dr. Ze'ev Meshel
This project consists of the survey, mapping and excavation of water-supply systems in Israel.
Publication:
Meshel, Z. The Water-supply System of Susita.
Contact Person:
Dr. Ze'ev Meshel, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
Desert Fortresses
Dr. Ze'ev Meshel
Research of the "Israelite Fortresses" in the Negev and the Herodian fortresses in the Judean Desert.
Publication:
Meshel, Z. Ancient Siege - Installations at Hyrcania, Cyprus, and Sartaba.
Contact Person:
Dr. Ze'ev Meshel, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
The Eastern Negev in the Iron Age
Prof. Itzhaq Beit-Arieh and Prof. B. Cresson
Since 1979, five sites in the eastern Negev of Israel have been excavated as part of this project: Tel 'Ira,
Horvat 'Uza, Horvat Radum, Horvat Qitmit and Tel Malhata. The project also includes a survey of 300 square
kilometers in the region.
The excavations at Horvat 'Uza, Horvat Radum and Tel Malhata are in collaboration with Beylor University, Waco,
Texas, under the direction of Prof. Itzhaq Beit-Arieh and Prof. B. Cresson.
Finds from the Iron Age II (mainly 8th and 7th centuries BCE) dominate the excavated sites.
Publications:
- Beit-Arieh, I., Cresson, B. 1985. An Edomite Ostracon from Horvat 'Uza. Tel Aviv 12: 96-100.
- Beit-Arieh, I., Cresson, B. 1991. Horvat 'Uza: A fortified Outpost on the Eastern Negev Border. Biblical Archaeologist 54: 126-135.
- Beit-Arieh, I. 1995. Horvat Qitmit: An Edomite Shrine in the Biblical Negev. Tel Aviv.
(Monograph Series no. 11)
- Beit-Arieh, I. 1999. Tel 'Ira: A Stronghold
in the Biblical Negev. Tel Aviv. (Monograph
Series no. 15)
- Beit-Arieh, I. 2004. Horvat 'Uza and Horvat Radum. Tel Aviv.(Monograph Series no. 25)
Contact Person:
Prof. Itzhaq
Beit-Arieh, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
Tel Gerisa
Eleven seasons of excavations were conducted at Tel Gerisa between
the years 1981-1995 under the direction of Ze'ev Herzog. The excavations
commenced as part of a regional investigation of the western Yarkon
River basin, which also included the excavation of Tel Michal (published
in 1989 by the University of Minnesota Press jointly with Tel Aviv
University) and will soon be expanded to include the site of Tel
Jaffa. The excavations at Tel Gerisa have contributed important
evidence relating to the fortification systems of the Middle Bronze
IIA period as well as to the material culture of the Philistines.
In more recent years, excavation has concentrated on the exposure
of a Late Bronze Age palace from the time of Egyptian suzerainty
in Canaan, ca. 1400 B.C.E. A unique water-supply system, which apparently
dates to the Middle Bronze IIA, has been excavated since the 1988
season and may necessitate a reevaluation of the history of the
development of such installations.
Hittite Imperial
Administration
Prof.
Itamar Singer
Research Assistants: Julia Gottlieb, Amir Gilan, Michal Katz
An integrative study of the Hittite Imperial System, especially
in Syria. The project is a systematic study of the written sources
(Hittite, Akkadian, Ugaritic) related to the process of the Hittite
administration in the 14th - 13th centuries BCE, especially in Syria
(archives of Bogazkoy, Ras Shamra, Meskene/Emar).
Contact Person:
Prof. Itamar
Singer, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
Tel Kabri
Located to the east of Nahariya, Tel Kabri was excavated by Aharon
Kempinski, together with Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier of Freiburg University.
It is one of the largest Bronze Age cities in Israel, and is identified
with the city of Rehov mentioned in the Execration Texts and in
Joshua 19: 28. Conspicuous finds so far include: buildings of the
Early Bronze Age I; private homes; a family tomb; a palace of the
local ruler from the Middle Bronze Age, built in typical Canaanite
style and decorated with a plaster floor and wall paintings in Minoan
style; remains of the Phoenician city founded in the 10th century
BCE; a casemate wall attributed to the 9th century BCE and occupation
levels that contain sherds of the 5th millennium BCE.
Publications:
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