Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology

Research output

Research output per year 2011 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2025

• 1255 Citations
• 19 h-index
• 182 Article
• 72 Chapter
• 14 Review article
• 12 Book
• 10 More
  • 4 Editorial
  • 3 Short survey
  • 2 Conference contribution
  • 1 Comment/debate

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Identification of the ancient anthropogenic Catena by deciphering hidden physical and chemical markers through pOSL and pXRF analysis

  Nikolskaia, P., Ackermann, O., Janovský, M., Fišer, J., Anker, Y., Anker, Y., Ben-Gedalya, T., Friedman, A., Hejcman, M., Reed, K. & Shai, I., Mar 2025, In: Catena. 250, 108708.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Toward Identifying Proto-Judaic Cultural Features in Ancient Israel and Judea

  Adler, Y., Feb 2025, In: Journal of Ancient Judaism. 16, 1, p. 1-28 28 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2024

  A Survey of Body Part Construction Metaphors in the Neo-Assyrian Letter Corpus

  Ong, M. & Gordin, S., 2024, In: Journal of Open Humanities Data. 10, johd.142.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Assyria 100%
  • Transistor transistor logic circuits 99%
  • Assyrians 92%
  • Open Data 88%
  • Body Parts 82%

• Black surfaces on ancient leather tefillin cases and straps from the Judean Desert: Macroscopic, microscopic and spectroscopic analyses

  Adler, Y., Cohen-Ofri, I., Maor, Y., Kamper, T. E. & Pinkas, I., Jun 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 6, e0303635.

  Ariel University, Weizmann Institute of Science

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Fourier Transform 100%
  • Dispersive 100%
  • Earliest Time 100%
  • Black Color 100%
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy 100%

• Cuneiform Stroke Recognition and Vectorization in 2D Images

  Hamplová, A., Romach, A., Pavlíček, J., Veselý, A., Čejka, M., Franc, D. & Gordin, S., 2024, In: Digital Humanities Quarterly. 18, 1

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cuneiform 100%
  • stroke 90%
  • Optical character recognition 46%
  • neural network 46%
  • Analog to digital conversion 44%

• Ernest Richmond, Director of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine (1927–37), and His Approach to Archaeological Research by Members of the Jewish Yishuv

  Lash, M., Goldstein, Y. & Shai, I., 2024, In: Shofar. 42, 3, p. 54-79 26 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Figurines and Their Makers: A View from a Canaanite Cultic Enclosure at Tel Burna

  Ross, J. & Shai, I., 2024, In: Atiqot. 116, p. 43-76 34 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Light-Microscopic and Spectroscopic Analyses of the Skin Materials Used in the Tefillin and Mezuzah Slips from the Judean Desert

  Adler, Y. & Kamper, T. E., 2024, In: Atiqot. 116, p. 175-207 33 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Linguistic annotation of cuneiform texts using treebanks and deep learning

  Ong, M. & Gordin, S., 1 Apr 2024, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 39, 1, p. 296-307 12 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cuneiform Texts 100%
  • Treebank 93%
  • Annotation 68%
  • Linguistics 62%
  • Deep learning 58%

• Object Biographies, Object Agency and a Local Community's Encounter with and Response to Foreign Commodities: The Pithoi from LB Tel Burna as a Case Study

  Susnow, M., McKinny, C. & Shai, I., 1 Nov 2024, In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 34, 4, p. 653-670 18 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Object Biography 100%
  • Local Communities 62%
  • commodity 58%
  • Commodities 45%
  • Jar 14%

• Slingstones from Khirbet 'Aujah el-Foqa"With a Sling and with a Stone": Iron Age Slingstones and Possible

  Ben-Shlomo, D. & Freikman, M., 2024, In: מחקרי יהודה ושומרון. ל"ג, 1, p. *31-*5

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Stylistic classification of cuneiform signs using convolutional neural networks

  Yugay, V., Paliwal, K., Cobanoglu, Y., Sáenz, L., Gogokhia, E., Gordin, S. & Jiménez, E., 1 Feb 2024, In: IT - Information Technology. 66, 1, p. 15-27 13 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Convolutional Neural Network 100%
  • Stylistics 100%
  • Cuneiform 100%
  • Neural Network 100%
  • Publicly Available Dataset 50%

• Text Density, Scroll Carrying Capacity and Pre-Biblical Sources: How a Hellenistic Period Shift in Text Density is Relevant to Hypotheses about the Formation of the (Hebrew) Bible

  Gayer, A. & Carr, D. M., 5 Mar 2024, In: Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. 136, 1, p. 32-58 27 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Wine Production in the Byzantine Winepresses of Southern Israel: Insights from a Statistical Analysis

  Chocron, M., Ackermann, O., Stavi, I. & Zissu, B., 1 Jan 2024, In: Atiqot. 114, p. 75-89 15 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • wine 100%
  • Statistical Analysis 93%
  • Israel 86%
  • Wine 80%
  • statistical analysis 74%

• היחס של היישוב היהודי לארכאולוגיה בתקופת המנדט

  Translated title of the contribution: The Growing Importance of Jewish Archaeology for the Jewish Population of British Mandate Palestine/EIלאש, מ., גולדשטין, י. & שי, י., 2024, In: ציון: רבעון לחקר תולדות ישראל. 89, 1, p. 83-106 24 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• ייצוג בעלי חיים בתרבות החומרית של תקופת הברזל: השוואה בין פלשת ליהודה: השוואה בין פלשת ליהודה

  בן שלמה, ד., 2024, In: ארץ ישראל: מחקרים בידיעת הארץ ועתיקותיה. 35, p. 215-225 11 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• סקר ארכיאולוגי ברזולוציה גבוהה בתל עתר, אתר בגבול המערבי של ממלכת יהודה בתקופת הברזל

  טבגר, א., מקיני, כ. & שי, י., 2024, In: ארץ ישראל: מחקרים בידיעת הארץ ועתיקותיה. 35, p. 268-281 14 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• על המונחים "קלף" "דוכסוסטוס" ו"גויל" בספרות התנאית לאור אנליזות מיקרוסקופיות וספקטרוסקופיות של תפילין, מזוזות ומגילות עתיקות ממדבר יהודה

  Translated title of the contribution: On the Terms Qəlāf, Dûkhsûsṭôs, and Gəwîl in the Tannaitic Literature in Light of Microscopic and Spectroscopic Analyses of Ancient Tefillin, Mezuzot, and Scrolls from the Judean Desertאדלר, י., 2024, In: מחקרי יהודה ושומרון. ל"ג, 1, p. 37-66 30 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2023

  Applying thermal demagnetization to archaeological materials: A tool for detecting burnt clay and estimating its firing temperature

  Vaknin, Y., Shaar, R., Lipschits, O., Behar, A. E., Maeir, A. M. & Ben-Yosef, E., Oct 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 10 October, e0289424.

  Tel Aviv University, Ariel University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Archaeological Objects 100%
  • Fired Clay 100%
  • Firing Temperature 100%
  • Thermal Demagnetization 100%
  • Clays 100%

• Archaeology in Judea and Samaria 30 years after the Oslo Accords

  Lash, M., Goldstein, Y. & Shai, I., 2023, In: Israel Affairs. 29, 5, p. 895-913 19 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Samaria 100%
  • Judaea 92%
  • Oslo 86%
  • archaeology 74%
  • Palestinians 70%

• A Vessel with a Snake Decoration from Khirbet ‘Aujah el-Foqa

  Ben-Shlomo, D., 2023, In: במעבה ההר. 13, 1, p. *38-*21

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Jordan 100%

• A “chaîne opératoire” perspective on Iron Age II Judean cooking pots

  Bouzaglou, L. & Ben-Shlomo, D., Jun 2023, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15, 6, 75.

  Tel Aviv University, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Big-cat hunting in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Near East: a view from Tel Burna

  Gaastra, J. S., Greenfield, T. L., Cassuto, D. & Shai, I., 11 Oct 2023, In: Antiquity. 97, 395, p. 1138-1155 18 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Hunting 100%
  • Lion 91%
  • Near East 86%
  • Bronze Age 83%
  • Iron Age 82%

• Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: games and gaming in a domestic neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi / Gath, Israel

  Albaz, S., Greenfield, H. J., Greenfield, T. L., Brown, A., Shai, I. & Maeir, A. M., 2023, In: Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 155, 1, p. 1-30 30 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Israel 100%
  • Daily Life 100%
  • Early Bronze Age 100%
  • Canaan 100%
  • Gath 100%

• Exploring geomagnetic variations in ancient Mesopotamia: Archaeomagnetic study of inscribed bricks from the 3rd-1st millennia BCE

  Howland, M. D., Tauxe, L., Gordin, S., Altaweel, M., Cych, B. & Ben-Yosef, E., 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 52, e2313361120.

  Tel Aviv University, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Mesopotamia 100%
  • Iron 20%

• Jewish Ritual Immersion in the Longue Durée: From Earliest Manifestations until Today

  Adler, Y., 2023, In: Atiqot. 113, p. 159-181 23 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Immersion 100%
  • religious behavior 84%
  • Manifestation 67%
  • Jew 33%
  • Modern Era 31%

• Neutron activation analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology: current applications and future perspectives

  Riehle, K., Kistler, E., Öhlinger, B., Heitz, C., Ben-Shlomo, D., Jung, R., Mommsen, H., Sterba, J. H., Gimatzidis, S., Fantalkin, A., Prillwitz, S., Hein, A., Geissler, L., Lehmann, G., Kindberg Jacobsen, J., Posamentir, R. & Schlotzhauer, U., 1 Mar 2023, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15, 3, 25.

  Ariel University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Mediterranean Archaeology 100%
  • Neutron Activation Analysis 100%
  • Iron 100%
  • Archaeological Survey 33%
  • Iron Age 33%

• New fingerprint evidence for female potters in Late Bronze Age Canaan: The demographics of potters and division of labour at Tel Burna

  Ross, J., Fowler, K. D. & Shai, I., Sep 2023, In: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 71, 101533.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Late Bronze Age 100%
  • Division of Labour 100%
  • Canaan 100%
  • Bronze Age 100%
  • Pottery 100%

• Production centers of cooking pots in Iron Age Judah

  Ben-Shlomo, D., Bouzaglou, L., Mommsen, H. & Sterba, J. H., Feb 2023, In: Archaeometry. 65, 1, p. 84-104 21 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Iron Age 100%
  • Judah 100%
  • Production Facilities 100%
  • Cooking Pots 100%
  • Iron 100%

• Reconsidering 4Q69 (4QpapIsap)

  Gayer, A., 2023, In: Dead Sea Discoveries. 30, 3, p. 292-321 30 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Fortifications of Tel Burna: A Reappraisal after Twelve Seasons of Excavations (2010–2022)

  Tavger, A., McKinny, C., Cassuto, D., Gaastra, J., Ortiz, S. & Shai, I., Jun 2023, In: Atiqot. 111, p. 73-102 30 p.

  Ariel University, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Fortification 100%
  • nineteenth century 86%
  • Excavation 75%
  • occupation 72%
  • campaign 66%

• The Mesopotamian Ancient Place-names Almanac (MAPA): A Gazetteer of the Uruk Urbanscape in the Age of Empires

  Clark, S. & Gordin, S., 2023, In: Journal of Open Humanities Data. 9, 20.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Uruk 100%
  • Open Data 81%
  • Place Names 73%
  • Seats 69%
  • Remote sensing 68%

• Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation

  Gutherz, G., Gordin, S., Sáenz, L., Levy, O. & Berant, J., 1 May 2023, In: PNAS nexus. 2, 5, pgad096.

  Tel Aviv University, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Neural Network 100%
  • Natural Language Processing 100%

• Water as a Strategic Resource in the Western Samaria Region–The Unique Case of Deir Sam’an: The Water System that Has Been Operating for 1,500 Years

  Elmakayes, Y., Ben-Shlomo, D., Anker, Y. & Frumkin, A., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Environmental Archaeology.

  Ariel University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• החפירות בח'רבת עוג'ה אל־פוקא בשנים 2021–2022

  Translated title of the contribution: The Excavations at Khirbet 'Aujah el-Foqa: The 2021-2022 Seasonsבן שלמה, ד., פרייקמן, מ. & הוקינס, ר., 2023, In: מחקרי יהודה ושומרון. ל"ב, 1, p. 5-31 27 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• מרכזי ייצור של סירי בישול ביהודה בתקופת הברזל 2

  Translated title of the contribution: Production Centers of Cooking Pots in Iron Age Judahבן שלמה, ד. & בוזגלו, ל., 2023, In: מחקרי יהודה ושומרון. ל"ב, 2, p. 133-162 30 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2022

  A Roman-Era Chalk Quarry and Chalk-Vessel Workshop at cEinot Amitai in the Lower Galilee: A Preliminary Report

  Adler, Y. & Mizzi, D., 2022, In: Israel Exploration Journal. 72, 1, p. 113-132 20 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Chalk 100%
  • Galilee 98%
  • Quarry 92%
  • Vessel 63%
  • raw materials 42%

• Excavating unstable ground: trends in archaeological research in Judea and Samaria, 1967-77

  Lash, M., Goldstein, Y. & Shai, I., 2022, In: Israel Affairs. 28, 1, p. 28-44 17 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Samaria 100%
  • Judaea 92%
  • Archaeological Research 72%
  • minister 61%
  • Israel 57%

• Excavations at Khirbet 'Aujah el-Foqa: Results from the 2020–2021 Seasons

  Ben-Shlomo, D., Freikman, M. & Hawkins, R. K., 2022, In: מחקרי יהודה ושומרון. ל"א, 1, p. 31*-68* 38 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Jordan 100%
  • reconstruction 82%

• PHILISTINE SOCIETY AS REVEALED BY ITS ICONOGRAPHY AND FIGURATIVE MATERIAL CULTURE

  Ben-Shlomo, D., 2022, In: Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies. 10, 3-4, p. 240-258 19 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Material Culture 100%
  • Philistines 82%
  • Figurative 63%
  • Iconography 56%
  • Philistia 32%

• The contribution of POSL and PXRF to the discussion on sedimentary and site formation processes in archaeological contexts of the southern Levant and the interpretation of biblical strata at Tel Burna

  Janovský, M. P., Horák, J., Ackermann, O., Tavger, A., Cassuto, D., Šmejda, L., Hejcman, M., Anker, Y. & Shai, I., 30 Apr 2022, In: Quaternary International. 618, p. 24-34 11 p.

  Ariel University, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Levant 100%
  • Israel 50%
  • Eolian Process 50%
  • Iron 50%
  • Archaeological Site 50%

• The Early Iron Age IIA in the Judean Shephelah: A Petrographic View According to Pottery from Khirbet Qeiyafa and Khirbet al-Ra‘i

  Ben-Shlomo, D., 2022, In: מחקרי יהודה ושומרון. ל"א, 2, p. *77-*107

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • import 100%
  • Israel 91%
  • evidence 45%
  • Group 32%

• The Genesis of Judaism

  Adler, Y., Dec 2022, In: Biblical Archaeology Review. 48, 4, p. 42-49 8 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The palaeoenvironment and the environmental impact of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Motza megasite and its surrounding Mediterranean landscape in the central Judean Highlands (Israel)

  Roskin, J., Asscher, Y., Khalaily, H., Ackermann, O. & Vardi, J., 1 Jun 2022, In: Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews. 4, 2, p. 215-245 31 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • paleoenvironment 100%
  • excavation 78%
  • environmental impact 71%
  • salvage 40%
  • geomorphic process 39%

• The Tree of Life Motif, Late Bronze Canaanite Cult, and a Recently Discovered Krater from Tel Burna

  Locatell, C., McKinny, C. & Shai, I., Jul 2022, In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 142, 3, p. 573-596 24 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Canaanites 100%
  • Cult 100%
  • Motifs 100%
  • Tree of Life 100%
  • Krater 100%

• Two Types of Four-Compartment Tefillin Cases from the Judean Desert Caves

  Adler, Y., 1 Mar 2022, In: Dead Sea Discoveries. 29, 1, p. 27-51 25 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Tefillin 100%
  • Split 24%
  • Leather 16%
  • Rabbis 15%
  • Diachrony 13%

• Urbanscape, Land Use Change and Centralization in the Region of Uruk, Southern Mesopotamia from the 2nd to 1st Millennium BCE

  Clark, S., Altaweel, M. & Gordin, S., Nov 2022, In: Land. 11, 11, 1955.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • centralization 100%
  • land use change 88%
  • place name 71%
  • city 41%
  • historical records 32%

• ‏מים מהסלע — ה"סוד" לקיום החקלאות הקדומה באזורים היובשניים של ארץ ישראל /‏

  אקרמן, א., 2022, In: מחקרי הנגב, ים המלח והערבה. 14, 2, p. 38-46 9 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• תרומתו של שר המדע והפיתוח יובל נאמן לקידום המחקר הארכיאולוגי ביהודה ושומרון

  Translated title of the contribution: The influence of Yuval Ne'eman, former Israeli minister of science and development, in promoting archeological research in Judea and Samariaלאש, מ., גולדשטין, י. & שי, י., 2022, In: מחקרי יהודה ושומרון. ל"א, 1, p. 75-99 25 p.

  Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2021

  A recently discovered Hebrew inscription in a structure identified as a Jewish Ritual bath in Syracuse, Sicily

  Adler, Y., Zeldes, N. & Engel, E., Jan 2021, In: Revue des Etudes Juives. 180, 1-2, p. 41-70 30 p.

  Ariel University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Syracuse 100%
  • Sicily 83%
  • Bath 82%
  • religious behavior 70%
  • expulsion 31%