NEAR EASTERN Languages & Cultures

Yuval Gadot is the head of the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel-Aviv University. Since 2013 he is directing Tel-Aviv University excavations at the 'City of David' and Co-directing the 'Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition'. His research in Jerusalem includes excavations of the ancient core together with interdisciplinary study of the rural landscape surrounding the city. Among Gadot's publications are: Ramat Rahel III – Final Publication of Yohanan Aharoni’s Excavations at Ramat-Raḥel published in 2016, The Bronze Age Cemetery at 'Ara published in 2014, and the recent co-editing of “Rethinking Israel”: an edited volume published in honor of Prof. Israel Finkelstein.

The Iron I period witnessed a wave of settlements in the highlands of Israel, mostly in Samaria but also to some extent in the Upper Galilee and Judah. This wave is usually associated with the genesis of Ancient Israel and is interpreted in light of the collapse of Canaanite urban centers at the end of the 12th century BCE. This lecture reconsiders the reasons behind this wave of settlement throughout the Samaria Highlands during the Iron I (1200-1000 BCE) in light of new understanding of the social and economic reality on the coastal plain, the Jezreel, Jordan, and Hula Valleys, and the regions surrounding the Samaria Highlands.

Sponsored by: Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies

Co-Sponsored by: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Cotson Institute of Archaeology

For more information, please email nreast@humnet.ucla.edu

TUESDAY | Nov 13, 2018 | Kaplan A51 | 2:00P - 4:00PArchaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series:

Israel and the Samaria Highlands: A Nomad Settlement Wave or Urban Expansion during the Early Iron Age?

2018/19

A 'four-room' building at the site of 'Izbet Sartah, the hills of SamariaCourtesy of Yuval Gadot