NGSBA Excavation Reports


ISSN 2221-9420

This is our electronic journal which reports the results of our excavations.  Some are preliminary reports (larger sites) and some are final reports (smaller sites).  Some reports concern our community work (Lod and Givat Sher), other reports deal with our research projects (Tel Dan, Tel Arad) and most reports deal with salvage work. The salvage excavations can also be found by site in the contract archaeology section and research excavations and community digs under the excavations tab.

  • Volume 3 (2011)

  • Volume 2 (2010): Or Yehuda, Eden Hills

  • Volume 1 (2009): Azor, Bet Dagan, Eden Hills, Eshtaol, Hartuv, Hatrurim, Na'an, Nahal Gov, Nahal Hava, Nahal Saif, Tsrifin, Yehud, Yesodot

 

 

Gezer Excavations

Gezer I: Preliminary Report of the 1964–66 Seasons
W. G. Dever, H. D. Lance, G. Ernest Wright. (1970)
167 pages - ISBN 0-87820-300-1
$40.00 +postage

Gezer II: Preliminary Report of the 1967–70 Seasons in Fields 1 and 2
W. G. Dever et al. (1974)
221 pages - ISBN 0-87820-302-8
out of order

Gezer III: A Ceramic Typology of the Late Iron II, Persian and Hellenistic Periods at Tell Gezer
Seymour Gitin. (1990) 
2 volumes, 618 pages - ISBN 965-222-202-x
$65.00+postage

Gezer IV: The 1969–71 Seasons in Field VI, the “Acropolis.”
W.G. Dever. (1986) 
2 volumes. 275 pages - isbn 0-87820-304-4
$40.00 +postage

Gezer V: The Field I Caves
Joe D. Seger. (1988)
170 pages - ISBN 0-87820-305-2
$40.00+postage

 

 


Dan: 25 Years of Excavations
A. Biran (1992, Hebrew). 266 pages. $17.00  + postage






Biblical Dan
A. Biran. (1994). 280 pages. $32.00  + postage






Dan I: A Chronicle of the Excavations, the Pottery Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age, and the Middle Bronze Age Tombs
A. Biran, D. Ilan, and R. Greenberg. (1996). 329 pages.  $52.00  + postage



Dan II
Dan II: A Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean Tomb"
A. Biran and R. Ben-Dov. (2002). 249 pages. $48.00 + postage




Dan III
Dan III: The Late Bronze Age
R. Ben-Dov. (2011). 393 pages. $65.00 + postage

 


AroerTel 'Aroer: The Iron Age Caravan Town and the Hellenistic-Eartly Roman Settlement - The Avraham Biran (1975-1982) and Rudolf Cohen (1975-1976) Excavations. 2 volumes (text and plates). Pp. xxvi + 470; 324 figures, 12 color plates, 74 tables, 4 graphs, 5 appendices, 1 CD.
Yifat Thareani. (2011).  ISBN: 978-0-87820-310-9. $95.00 + postage. (2.88 kg. = 6.35 lbs.)


A Manual of Field Excavation.
W. G. Dever and H. D. Lance, eds. 240 pages. $20.00 paper. ((1978, out of print).

high places
Temples and High Places in Biblical Times
(ed. A. Biran) Jerusalem (1981, out of print).

 


Selected articles by NGSBA researchers about NGSBA projects

Biran, Avraham

  • 1936. (as A. Bergman) Soundings at the Supposed Site of OT Anathoth, BASOR 62:22-26.
  • 1967. "Howbeit the Name of the City was Laish at First”, All the Land of Naftali, Jerusalem, (Hebrew).
  • 1970. A Mycenaean Charioteer Vase from Tel Dan, Israel Exploration Journal 20:92-95.
  • 1971. Laish-Dan, Secrets of a Canaanite City and an Israelite City, Qadmoniot 4:2-10, (Hebrew).
  • 1974. Tel Dan, Biblical Archaeologist, 37:26-51. 
  • 1980. Tel Dan – Five Years Later, Biblical Archaeologist 42:168-182.
  • 1980. Two Discoveries at Tel Dan. Israel Exploration Journal 30:89-98.
  • 1982. The Temenos at Dan. Eretz Israel 16:15-43. (Hebrew with English summary p. * )
  • 1983. ‘And David Sent the Spoils to the Elders of Aroer’, Biblical Archaeology Review 9:28-37.
  • 1984. The Triple-Arched Gate of Laish at Tel Dan. Israel Exploration Journal 34:1-19.
  • 1984. Die Wiederentdeckung der alten Stadt Dan. Antike Welt 1:27-38.
  • 1986. The Dancer from Dan, the Empty Tomb and the Altar Room, Israel Exploration Journal 36:168-187.
  • 1987. Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan, BAR 13:
  • 1988. Histoire de deux villes [Dan et Laïsh]. Archéologie, art et histoire de la Palestine:148-155.
  • 1989. The Collared-rim Jars and the Settlement of the Tribe of Dan, in Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology (eds. S. Gitin and W.G. Dever) Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 49:71-96.
  • 1989. The Evidence for Metal Industry at Dan. Eretz Israel 20:120-134. (Hebrew with English summary p. *198).
  • 1990. The Middle Bronze II Ramparts of Tel Dan, Eretz-Israel 21:56-65. (Hebrew with English summary p. *103).
  • 1993. (with J. Naveh) An Aramaic Stele Fragment from Tel Dan, Israel Exploration Journal 43:81-98.
  • 1994. Tel Dan, Biblical Texts and Archaeological Date, Philip King Festschrift
  • 1995. Dan, la cité biblique du nord d’Israël. Le Monde de la Bible 90:32-37.
  • 1995. The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment, Israel Exploration Journal 45:1-18.
  • 1998. Biblical Dan and the House of David inscription, from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age. Mediterranean Peoples in Transition. Eds. S. Gitin, A. Mazar and E. Stern. pp. 479-481. 
  • 1999. Two Bronze Plaques and the Hussot of Dan, Israel Exploration Journal 49: 43-54. 
  • 2001. The high places of biblical Dan. Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan: 148-155.

Ben-Dov, Rachel

  • 1996. A Syrian Socketed Spearhead from Dan, Eretz-Israel 25:65-66, (Hebrew).
  • 2009. (with Azriel Gorski) A Metal Implement Wrapped in Linen from Tel Dan. Israel Exploration Journal 59:80-85.
  • 2007. (with A.S. Martin). Egyptian and Egyptian-Style Pottery at Tel Dan. Ägypten und Levante 17:191-203.

Hershkovitz, Malka

  • 1992. Aroer at the End of the Second Temple Period. Eretz-Israel 23:309-319. (Hebrew).
  • 1999. The Second Temple Period. Pp. 297-299 in Tel Íra: A Stronghold in the Biblical Negev. (ed. I. Beit-Arieh). Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology.
  • 2002. A Carved Bone Plaque from Tel Dan. Qadmoniot 124: 113-115. (Hebrew).
  • 2007. Agricultural Facilities from the Late Roman Period at Tel Dan. Qadmoniot 134: 110-112. (Hebrew).

Ilan, David

  • 1991. Stepped-rim Juglets from Tel Dan and the MBI-II (MBIIA-B) Transition, Israel Exploration Journal 41:230-238 .
  • 1996. (with P. Vandiver and M. Spaer). An Early Glass Bead from Tel Dan. Israel Exploration Journal 43: 230-234.
  • 1992. A Middle Bronze Age Cultic Cache from Tel Dan, Eretz-Israel 23: 9-20. (Hebrew).
  • 1992. A Middle Bronze Age Offering from Tel Dan and the Politics of Cultic Gifting. Tel Aviv 19: 247-266.
  • 1995. Mortuary Practices at Tel Dan in the Middle Bronze Age: A Reflection of Canaanite Society and Ideology, Pp. 117-139 in: The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East (eds. S. Campbell and A. Green), Oxford: Oxbow Press.
  • 1996. “Tel Dan”, “Aroer”, “Dolmens”, “Burial Goods”, “Tumuli” in: The Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology (ed. E. Meyers), Oxford University Press.
  • 1996. The Middle Bronze Age Painted Pottery from Tel Dan. Levant 28: 159-174.
  • 1999. D. Ilan. Village Archaeology: Tel Dan in the Iron Age I, Pp. 51-66 in: Material Culture, Society and Ideology - New Directions in the Archaeology of Israel. (eds. A. Meier and A. Faust). Bar Ilan University, Land of Israel Studies. (Hebrew).
  • 2005. (with H.J. Bruins, J. van der Plicht  and E. Werker), Iron Age 14C Dates from Tel Dan: A High Chronology, Pp. 323-336 in The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science (ed. T.E. Levy and T. Higham). Oxford, England. .
  • 2008. The Socioeconomic Implications of Grain Storage in Early Iron Age Canaan: The Case of Tel Dan, pp. 87-104 in The Children of Israel: Archaeological Studies in Honor of Israel Finkelstein. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2010. Biblical Archaeology as Social Action – Two Case Studies, pp. 69-80 in Future Directions of Biblical Archaeology (ed. T.E. Levy). London: Equinox.
  • 2010. (with Y. Gadot), Undermining the Edifice of Ethnocentric Historical Narrative in Israel with Community-Based Archaeology, pp. 103-122 in Filtering the Past, Building the Future: Archaeology, Tradition and Politics in the Middle East. (eds. B. J. Parker, L. Swartz Dodd and R. Boytner). University of Arizona Press.
  • 2011. Household Gleanings from Iron I Tel Dan, pp. 133-154 in Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond. (eds. A. Yasur-Landau, J. R. Ebeling and L. B. Mazow). Leiden: Brill.

Pakman, Dalia

  • 2003. "Mask-Like” Face Reliefs on a Painted Stand from the Sacred Precinct at Tel Dan, Eretz-Israel 27, (Hebrew).
  • 1992. Late Iron Age Potery Vessels at Tel Dan, Eretz-Israel 23: 230-240 (Hebrew).

Thareani, Yifat

  • 2008. Desert Outsiders: Extra-Mural Neighborhoods in the Iron Age Negev. In: Fantalkin, A. and Yasur Landau, A. (eds.). Bene-Israel. Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein. Leiden and Boston: 197-212
  • 2009. In the Service of the Empire: Local Elites and "Pax-Assyriaca" in the Negev. Eretz-Israel 29: 184-191. (Hebrew)