Ancient Near East

Gesher Benot Ya'aqov

The Acheulean site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (henceforth G.B.Y.) and the Benot Ya'akov Formation in which it is embedded are located in the northern sector of the Dead Sea Rift, just south of the Hula Valley. The exposures consist of fluvial and limnic sediments which form the littoral facies of the Hula Valley basin fill (Horowitz, 1973)....

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Archaeology in the Levant

UCSD Nahal Tillah Regional Archaeology Project in Israel. The UCSD Nahal Tillah Regional Archaeology Project in Israel is a collaborative and comprehensive archaeological initiative undertaken by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to explore and uncover the rich historical and cultural heritage of the Nahal Tillah region. Located in sou...

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Wadi Ziqlab Project

Since 1987, the Wadi Ziqlab Project, directed by Ted Banning of the University of Toronto, has conducted archaeological survey and excavation of Epipalaeolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age sites in northern Jordan, following initial survey in 1981 and test excavations in 1986....

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