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Preliminary List of Archaeological Surveys of and Compiled by Todd Bolen and A.D. Riddle

Aharoni, Yohanan. The Settlement of the Israelite Tribes in Upper Galilee. : Israel Exploration Society, 1957. (Hebrew)

Aharoni, Yohanan, and Ruth Amiran. “A Survey of the Shephela Tells,” Yediot (1955) 19: 222–25 (Hebrew). Allen, M. “Regional Archaeological Survey.” Pp. 21–66 in I, eds. L. Stager, et al. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008.

Avni, Gideon. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Har Saggi—Northeast (225). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1992. Baumgarten, Ya‘aqov. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Shivṭa (166). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2004. Beit-Arieh, Itzhaq. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Tel Malḥata (144). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2003. Berman, Ariel, Harley Stark, and Leticia Barda. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Ziqim (91). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2004.

Borowski, Oded. “Review of ‘The Land of Issachar.’” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 233 (1979): 77–78. Cohen, Rudolph. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Sedé Boqer—East (168). Jerusalem: Archaeological Survey of Israel, 1981. Cohen, Rudolph. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Sedé Boqer—West (167). Jerusalem: Department of Antiquities and Museums, 1985. Cohen, Rudolph, and Rebecca Cohen-Amin. Ancient Settlement of the Central , Volume 1: The Period, the Early Age and the Middle Bronze Age I. Israel Antiquities Authority Report 6. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1999. Cohen, Rudolph, and Rebecca Cohen-Amin. Ancient Settlement of the Negev Highlands, Volume II: The Iron Age and the Persian Period. Israel Antiquities Authority Report 20. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2004. Dagan, Yehuda. The Judean Shephela during the Monarchy Period in Light of Archaeological Survey and Excavation, unpublished Master’s thesis, 1992 (Hebrew). Dagan, Yehuda. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Lakish Region. Israel Antiquities Authority, 1992 (Hebrew). Dagan, Yehuda. Map of Amazya (109): Volume 1, The Northern Sector. Archaeological Survey of Israel. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2006. Dagan, Yehuda. The Settlement in the Judean Shephela in the Second and First Millennium B.C.—A Test-Case of Settlement Processes in a Geographic Region. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, 2000 (Hebrew). Finkelstein, Israel. The of the Israelite Settlement. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988. Finkelstein, Israel, and Yitzhak Magen. Archaeological Survey of the Hill Country of Benjamin. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1993. Finkelstein, Israel, and Nadav Na'aman, eds. From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994. Finkelstein, Israel, Zvi Lederman, and Shlomo Bunimovitz. Highlands of Many Cultures: The Southern Survey: The Sites. : Institute of Archaeology, , 1997.

Frankel, Rafael, Nimrod Getzov, Mordechai Aviam, and Avi Degani. Settlement Dynamics and Regional Diversity in Ancient Upper Galilee: Archaeological Survey of Upper Galilee. IAA Reports, vol. 14. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2001. Frankel, Rafael. “Upper Galilee in the Late Bronze Age-Iron I Transition.” In From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel, ed. and Nadav Na'aman, 18–34. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994. Frankel, Rafael, and Nimrod Getzov. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Akhziv (1) and Map of Hanita (2). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1997.

Gal, Zvi. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Gazit (46). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1991.

Gal, Zvi. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Har Tavor (41) and Map of ‘En Dor (45). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1998.

Gal, Zvi. “Iron I in and the Margins of the .” In From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel, ed. Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, 35–46. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994. Gal, Zvi. Lower Galilee during the Iron Age. Translated by Marcia Reines Josephy. American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series, vol. 8. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992. Gal, Zvi. “The Lower Galilee in the Iron Age II: Analysis of Survey Material and Its Historical Interpretation.” Tel Aviv 15-16 (1988–1989): 56–64. Gazit, . Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Urim (125). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1996. Gophna, Ram. “Archaeological Survey of the Central Coastal Plain, 1977.” In Excavations at , ed. Z. Herzog, O. Negbi, and S. Moshkovitz, 136–47. Tel Aviv, 1979. Gophna, Ram, and Etan Ayalon. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Herzliyya (69). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1998. Gophna, Ram, and Itzhaq Beit-Arieh. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Lod (80). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1997.

Govrin, Yehuda. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Naḥal Yattir (139). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1991. Greenberg, Raphael, and Keinan, Adi. Israeli Archaeological Activity in the 1967–2007. : Jerusalem, 2009. Grootkerk, Salomon E. Ancient Sites in Galilee: A Toponymic Gazetteer. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Haiman, Mordechai. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Har Ḥamran—Southeast (199). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1993. Haiman, Mordechai. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Har Ḥamran—Southwest (198). Jerusalem: Department of Antiquities and Museums, 1986. Haiman, Mordechai. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Har Ramon (203). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1999. Haiman, Mordechai. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Miẓpé Ramon—Southwest (200). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1991. Haiman, Mordechai. “Preliminary Report of the Western Negev Highlands Emergency Survey.” Israel Exploration Journal 39, no. 3–4 (1989): 173–191. Hartal, Moshe. Northern . The Archaeological Survey as a Source of Regional History. Qazrin: Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, Ministry of Education and Culture, 1989.

Herr, Larry G., and Douglas R. Clark. “From the Stone Age to the Middle Ages in Jordan: Digging Up Tall al-‘Umayri.” 72, no. 2 (2009): 68–97. Herzog, Ze'ev. “The Beer-Sheba Valley: From Nomadism to Monarchy.” In From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel, ed. Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, 122–49. Jerusalem; Washington, DC: Yad Izkah Ben-Zvi; Israel Exploration Society; Biblical Archaeological Society, 1994. Herzog, Ze'ev, and Lily Singer-Avitz. “Iron Age IIA Occupational Phases in the Coastal Plain of Israel.” In The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin, ed. Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, 159–74. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. Hirschfeld, Yizhar. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of (108/2). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1985.

Ibach, Robert D., Jr. Archaeological Survey of the Hesban Region: Catalogue of Sites and Characterization of Periods. Hesban 5. Berrien Springs: Andrews University Press, 1987. Ibrahim, M. M., James A. Sauer, and K. Yassine. “The East Jordan Survey, 1975.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 222 (1976): 41–66. Ji, Chang-Ho C. “The East Jordan Valley During Iron Age I.” Exploration Quarterly 129 (1997): 19–37. Kloner, Amos. Survey of Jerusalem: The Northeastern Sector. Archaeological Survey of Israel. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2001. Kloner, Amos. Survey of Jerusalem: The Northwestern Sector, Introduction and Indices. Archaeological Survey of Israel. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2003. Kloner, Amos. Survey of Jerusalem: The Southern Sector. Archaeological Survey of Israel. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2000. Kochavi, Moshe, ed. Judaea, Samaria and the Golan. Archaeological Survey of Israel and Carta, 1972 (Hebrew). Kochavi, Moshe, and Itzhaq Beit-Arieh. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Rosh Ha-‘Ayin (78). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1994.

Lehmann, Gunnar. Bibliographie der archäologischen Fundstellen und Surveys in Syrien und Libanon. Deutsches Archäeologisches Institut Orient-Abteilung: Orient-Archäologie 9. Rahden, DE: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2002. Lehmann, Gunnar. “Phoenicians in Western Galilee: First Results of an Archaeological Survey in the Hinterland of Akko.” In Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan, ed. Amihai Mazar, 65–112. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Lehmann, Gunnar, and Martin Peilstöcker. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Ahihud (20). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2012. Leibner, Uzi. Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee: Archaeological Survey of the Eastern Galilee. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 127. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. Lender, Yesha‘yahu. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Har Nafḥa (196). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1990. Lender, Yesha’yahu. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Ancient Rock Inscriptions. Supplement to Map of Har Nafha (196). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1990.

Libneh, Amon. Negev Highlands. Jerusalem, 1993. (2002 reprint by Israel Parks Authority) MacDonald, Burton. “Ammonite Territory and Sites.” In Ancient Ammon, ed. Burton MacDonald and Randall W. Younker, 30-56. Leiden: Brill, 1999. MacDonald, Burton. The Southern Ghors and Northeast ʿArabah Archaeological Survey. Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 5. Sheffield: J. R. Collis, 1992. MacDonald, Burton. The Wadi el Ḥasā Archaeological Survey 1979-1983: West-Central Jordan. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988. MacDonald, Burton, L. G. Herr, M. P. Neeley, T. Gagos, K. Moumani, and M. Rockman. The Tafila- Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West-Central Jordan. Archaeological Reports 9. Boston: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2004. MacDonald, Burton, L. G. Herr, D. S. Quaintance, G. A. Clark, and M. C. A. Macdonald. The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan (2005-2007). Archaeological Reports 16. Boston: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012. Markus, Menahem. Bethel Mountains. Society for the Protection of in Israel, 1991 (Hebrew). Markus, Menahem. Central Negev Mountains and Mactesh Ramon. Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, 1983; reprint 2002 (Hebrew). Markus, Menahem. Jerusalem Mountains. Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, 1993 (Hebrew). Markus, Menahem. Manasseh Heights. Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, 1995 (Hebrew). Markus, Menahem. Mt. Carmel. Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, 1986 (Hebrew). Markus, Menahem. Mt. Meron. Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, 1994 (Hebrew). Markus, Menahem. Northern Judean Desert. Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, 1986 (Hebrew). Markus, Menahem. Southern Judean Desert. Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, 1984 (Hebrew). Mazar, Amihai. “Jerusalem and Its Vicinity in Iron Age I.” In From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel, ed. Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, 70–91. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994. Miller, D. “A Gazeteer of Iron I Sites in the North-Central Highlands of Israel.” Pp. 133–218 in Preliminary Excavation Reports and Other Archaeological Investigations, ed. N. Lapp. ASOR: Boston, 2003. Miller, J. Maxwell, ed. Archaeological Survey of the Kerak Plateau Conducted during 1978–1982 under the Direction of J. Maxwell Miller and Jack M. Pinkerton. Atlanta: Scholars, 1991. Mittman, S. Beiträge zur Siedlungs und Territorialgeschichte des nördlichen Ostjordanlandes. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970. Na'aman, Nadav. “The Shephelah according to the Amarna Letters.” In The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin, ed. Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, 281–99. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. Ne’eman, Yehuda. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Ma’anit (54). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1990.

Ofer, Avi. “All the Hill Country of Judah: From a Settlement Fringe to a Prosperous Monarchy.” In From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel, ed. Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, 92–121. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994. Ofer, Avi. “The Monarchic Period in the Judaean Highland: A Spatial Overview.” In Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan, ed. Amihai Mazar, 14–37. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Olami, Yaʿaqov. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Daliya (31). Jerusalem: Archaeological Survey of Israel, 1981.

Olami, Yaʿaqov, and Zvi Gal. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Shefar’am (24). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2003.

Olami, Yaʿaqov; Avraham Ronen; and Amit Romano. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of — West (22). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2003. Olami, Yaʿaqov; Shlomo Sender; and Eldad Oren. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Dor (30). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2005. Olami, Yaʿaqov; Shlomo Sender; and Eldad Oren. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Yagur (27). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2004. Patrich, Joseph. Archaeological Survey of and Samaria: Map of Deir Mar Saba (109/7). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1994.

Peterson, A., “Preliminary Report on the Topographic Survey of Ramla 1997 and 1999,” 32 (2000): 97–99. Peterson, A. and Wardill, R. “Interim Report on a Geophysical and Surface Survey of Ramla,” Levant 33 (2001): 1–6. Peterson, J. L. A Topographical Surface Survey of the Levitical Cities of Joshua 21 and I Chronicles 6: Studies on the Levites in Israelite Life and Religion. Unpublished ThD dissertation, Chicago: Chicago Institute of Advanced Theological Studies and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1977. Raban, Avner. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Nahalal (28). Jerusalem: Archaeological Survey of Israel, 1982.

Raban, Avner. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Mishmar Ha-‘Emeq (32). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1999.

Ronen, Avraham, and Yaʿaqov Olami. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of ‘Atlit (1). Jerusalem: Archaeological Survey of Israel, 1978.

Ronen, Avraham, and Yaʿaqov Olami. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Haifa – East (23). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1983.

Rosen, Steven A. Archaeological Survey of Israel: Map of Makhtesh Ramon (204). Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1994. Shavit, Alon. “Settlement Patterns in the Ayalon Valley in the Bronze and Iron Ages,” Tel Aviv 27 (2000), 189–230. Shavit, Alon. Settlement Patterns in Israel's Southern Coastal Plain during the Iron Age II. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Tel Aviv University, 2003 (Hebrew). Shavit, Alon. “Settlement Patterns of Philistine City-States.” Pp. 135-164 in Bene Israel: Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant During the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 31. Ed. A. Fantalkin and A. Yasur- Landau. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Stager, Lawrence E. “Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel.” In The Oxford History of the Biblical World, ed. Michael D. Coogan, 90–131. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Van der Steen, Eveline J. “The Central East Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 302 (1996): 51–74. Van der Steen, Eveline J. “Tribes and Territories in Transition: The Central East Jordan Valley and Surrounding Regions in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: A Study of the Sources.” Ph.D. diss., Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2002. Watson, P. “Pella Hinterland Survey 1994: Preliminary Report,” Levant XXVII (1996), 63–76. Zadok, Ran. “On the Toponymy of the Jezreel Valley and Adjacent Plains.” In The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin, ed. Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, 345–71. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. Zertal, Adam. The Manasseh Hill Country Survey: Volume 1: The Shechem Syncline. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 21.1. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Zertal, Adam. The Manasseh Hill Country Survey: Volume 2: The Eastern Valley and Fringes of the Desert. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 21.2. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Zertal, Adam. “To the Land of the Perizzites and the Giants: On the Israelite Settlement in the Hill Country of Manasseh.” In From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel, ed. Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman, 47–69. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994. Zori, Namiya. “Archaeological Survey of the Beth-Shan Valley.” Pp. 135–98 in The Beth Shan Valley, ed. J. Aviram. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1962. (Hebrew) Zori, Namiya. “The Land of Issachar.” Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1977. (Hebrew)

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