Open Access Journal: ‘Atiqot

 [First posted 10/31/10, most recently updated 22 August 2024]

‘Atiqot 

 EISSN 2948-040X

'Atiqot is the refereed journal of the Israel Antiquities Authority. It is published four times a year. The contents of the printed version is uploaded to the e-journal website. No changes are made to articles post-publication. The printed journal is also available via the IAA website.

For details on how to submit, see our Guide to Contributors. For Hebrew Guidelines,press here.

As of March 1, 2017 there are minimum requirements for publication in ‘Atiqot. For the list of requirements, see the attached files, in English or in Hebrew.


Range of Topics. ‘Atiqot covers a large chronological span, from prehistory up to the Ottoman period. Excavations are studied from various aspects and disciplines—often the result of the close interaction between researchers of the IAA and outside specialists. Thus, a report should include, in addition to the stratigraphic analysis, comprehensive treatments of the archaeological data, including studies of the various groups of finds,such as ceramics, glass, stone and metal objects, coins, jewelry, textiles, etc., as well as the geological, botanical, faunal and anthropological evidence. Laboratory analyses, such as petrography, radiocarbon dating and metallurgy, should be included where relevant.

The archaeological data published in ‘Atiqot are not confined to a specific range of periods or topics, but to a geographical area—the Land of Israel—which has been influenced by almost every ancient culture that existed in the Levant. The journal thus presents comprehensive research on the region and its connections with the neighboring countries. The publication is devoted to final reports and shorter articles, although occasionally a volume is dedicated to a particular topic (e.g., burial caves, agricultural installations), period (e.g., prehistoric, Islamic) or site (e.g., Acre, Jerusalem).

Excavation Reports. The papers published in ‘Atiqot are primarily the result of salvage excavations conducted by the IAA. Their results are sometimes unexpectedly important, filling in gaps that could not be understood by localized studies of the larger tells. ‘Atiqot is one of the few vehicles for imparting this important data and therefore a primary asset to any scholar in archaeology.

Bilingual Journal. The journal is bilingual, publishing articles in English or Hebrew; all Hebrew reports are accompanied by English summaries keyed to illustrations in the main text.

Atiqot 115 (2024) EISSN 2948-040X
Rural Life in the Southern Levant

• Front Matter

  Atiqot 115

  Keywords: Front Matter & Editorial

• The Village People: Social Aspects of Rural Settlements—Comments on Method and Theory (Pp. 1–22)
  

  Eyal Regev

  Keywords: rural archaeology, social organization, household archaeology, landownership, social identity, rural community, family, kinship

• Rural Complexity in the Intermediate Bronze Age: Settlement Patterns and Intra-Site Spatial Organization in Lower Galilee (Pp. 23–47)
  

  Karen Covello-Paran

  Keywords: Intermediate Bronze Age, Lower Galilee, ruralism, black wheel-made ware, spatial organization, socio-economic structures, economic models, settlement patterns

• Economic Strategies of Two Early Bronze Age Villages in the Southern Levant: Explaining Coastal Abandonment Versus Inland Urban Development (Pp. 49–77)
  

  Roey Nickelsberg, Anastasia Shapiro, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Yitzhak Paz, Itai Elad, Assaf Yasur-Landau and Ruth Shahack-Gross

  Keywords: coastal archaeology, coastal resources, trade networks, sustainability, EB IA, Dor South, ‘En Esur

• A Late Byzantine–Early Islamic-Period Rural Settlement Along Naḥal ‘Ashan, North of Be’er Sheva‘ (Pp. 79–110)
  

  Yana Tchekhanovets, Avinoam Lahavi and Shahaf Shaked

  Keywords: ancient agriculture, Byzantine period, Early Islamic period, Byzantine–Islamic transition, demographic changes, household economy, spolia

• Rural Ceramic Production Unveiled? A Petrographic Analysis of Early Islamic Mold-Decorated Buff Ware from the Be’er Sheva‘ Valley (Pp. 111–130)
  

  Anat Cohen-Weinberger and Davida Eisenberg-Degen

  Keywords: Negev, Early Islamic period, mold-decorated Buff Ware, petrography, Beer Sheva Valley, rural, pottery production

• Ramat Razim, near Ẓefat: A Middle Bronze Age Rural Site in the Tel Ḥaẓor Polity (with contributions by Sariel Shalev, Noa Ranzer, Polina Spivak, Nimrod Marom) (Pp. 133–218)
  

  Karen Covello-Paran, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Barak Tzin and Shlomit Bechar

  Keywords: Middle Bronze Age, rural settlement, Ramat Razim, Ḥaẓor polity, pithoi, petrography, economy

• A Hellenistic-Period Farmhouse at Aderet in the Judean Shephelah (with contributions by Jon Seligman, Marcia Sharabani and Donald T. Ariel) (Pp. 219–273)
  

  Jon Seligman and Ora Yogev

  Keywords: Idumea, Hellenistic period, agriculture, farmhouse, Maresha, numismatics, oil press

• Naṣr ed-Din (Bet Ma‘on), near Tiberias: Village and City in Roman-Period Galilee (Pp. 275–341)
  

  Dina Avshalom-Gorni, Uzi Leibner and Haya Ben Nahum

  Keywords: Roman Galilee, domestic architecture, Bet Ma‘on, Tiberias, city-countryside

• A Microscopic Examination of Fresh Breaks of Selected Roman-Period Potsherds from Naṣr ed-Din, near Tiberias (Pp. 343–350)
  

  Anastasia Shapiro

  Keywords: Galilee, Roman period, pottery fabric, microscopic examination, provenance, pottery workshops
• The Glass Finds from Naṣr ed-Din, near Tiberias (Pp. 351–356)
  

  Natalya Katsnelson

  Keywords: Lower Galilee, Roman period, between the Jewish Revolts, glass production, Jewish population
• A Decorated Basalt Door from Naṣr ed-Din (Bet Ma‘on), near Tiberias (Pp. 357–360)
  

  Yosef Stepansky

  Keywords: Roman period, burial, stone door, mausoleum, Tiberias, Talmud
• The Coins from Naṣr ed-Din, near Tiberias (Pp. 361–373)
  

  Danny Syon

  Keywords: numismatics, coins, Galilee
• Ḥorbat Sahar on Giv‘at Ha-More: A Byzantine–Early Islamic Rural Samaritan(?) Settlement, Revisited in the Crusader–Mamluk Period (Pp. 375–425)
  

  Yardenna Alexandre

  Keywords: miqveh, rural settlement, Samaritan lamps, Samaritan population, Crusader-Mamluk Christian pilgrims

• The Coins from Ḥorbat Sahar (Pp. 427–431)
  

  Helena Sokolov and Lior Sandberg

  Keywords: Galilee, numismatics, Elagabalus, Abila
• The Faunal Assemblage from Ḥorbat Sahar (Pp. 433–439)
  

  Zohar Turgeman-Yaffe

  Keywords: zooarchaeology, fauna, economy, butchering, consumption, livestock

 

Atiqot 114 (2024) EISSN 2948-040X
Wine Production, Trade and Consumption in the Southern Levant

• Front Matter & Editorial

  Atiqot 114

  Keywords: Front Matter & Editorial

• Identifying the (Royal) Winepresses in the “Valley of the King” (Pp. 1–22)

  Benyamin Storchan, Nathan Ben-Ari, Neria Sapir and Oded Lipschits

  Keywords: Iron Age, winepress, Judah, viticulture, Valley of the King, wine production, royal estate, mmšt

• Iron Age II and Persian-Period Wine Production in Southern Samaria: New Data from Archaeological Surveys (Pp. 23–45)
  

  Aharon Tavger

  Keywords: Iron Age, Persian period, winepress, winery, Samaria, Assyrian conquest, Northern Kingdom, ancient economy, agricultural specialization, landscape archaeology

• Transport Wine Amphorae and the Economic System in Southern Phoenicia during the Achaemenid Regime (Pp. 47–74)
  

  Yiftah Shalev

  Keywords: imperial control, transport amphorae, Achaemenid Empire, southern Phoenicia

• Wine Production in the Byzantine Winepresses of Southern Israel: Insights from a Statistical Analysis (Pp. 75–89)
  

  Matan Chocron, Oren Ackermann, Ilan Stavi and Boaz Zissu

  Keywords: Byzantine period, simple winepress, complex winepress, statistical analysis, screw press, treading floor, collection vat, fermentation

• From Gat to Bet-Gitot: Wine Production in the Southern Levant (Pp. 91–136)
  

  Yehoshua (Yeshu) Dray

  Keywords: wine, winemaking, winepress, Gat, Bet-Gitot, ‘free-run’ wine, pressed wine, treading floor

• Changes in Wine Consumption in Palestine, c. 600–1100 CE: The Ceramic Evidence (Pp. 137–177)
  

  Itamar Taxel

  Keywords: late antique, Early Islamic Palestine, viticulture, wine consumption, continuity and change, local ceramic containers, imported ceramic containers

• The Identification of Ancient Wine through Organic Residue Analysis of Ceramic Vessels (Pp. 179–192)
  

  Ayala Amir

  Keywords: wine, organic residue analysis, tartaric acid, wine-markers, Southern Levant, ceramic vessels

• Grapevine Variety Identification—Methodological Aspects: Sample Preparation, Three-Dimensional Positioning and Morphological Comparison (Pp. 193–211)
  

  Michal David, Yekaterina Shapira, Avshalom Karasik, Elyashiv Drori and Ehud Weiss

  Keywords: lab procedure, archaeobotany, archaeology, 3D model, GMM, position, drying, scan, grapevine variety

• Bronze Age Winepresses and Roman-Period Burial Caves near Nein, Giv‘at Ha-More (Pp. 215–255)
  

  Eyad Bisharat and Yardenna Alexandre

  Keywords: simple winepresses, Roman period, kokhim, burial caves, Galilean pottery, Jezreel Valley/southern Carmel pottery, Jewish lamps, Samaritan lamps

• Glass Finds from the Roman-Period Burial Caves near Nein (Pp. 257–270)

  Yael Gorin-Rosen

  Keywords: Roman glass, burial caves, Galilee, candlestick bottles, small amphoriskos, glass bracelet, bead, glass debris, local glass production
• Excavations at eṭ-Ṭuweiri and the Boundary between the Dioceses of Tyre and ‘Akko-Ptolemais in the Byzantine Period (Pp. 271–306)
  

  Danny Syon, Nimrod Getzov and Zohar Daniel

  Keywords: Tyre, ‘Akko-Ptolemais, inscriptions, winery, Byzantine period, Christianity

• Late Byzantine and Early Islamic Glass from et-Ṭuweiri: A Rural Site in Western Galilee (Pp. 307–322)
  

  Yael Gorin-Rosen

  Keywords: Byzantine period, Umayyad period, glass, wineglasses, oil lamps, tonged decoration, stirring rod, glass production
• The Mollusks from et-Ṭuweiri (Pp. 323–326)
  

  Inbar Ktalav

  Keywords: mollusks, snails, malacology, food consumption, trade, building material

 

'Atiqot 113 (2023) EISSN 2948-040X
The Archaeology of Purity

• Front Matter & Editorial

  Atiqot 113

  Keywords: Front Matter & Editorial


• A First-Century BCE Chalk-Vessel Assemblage from Har Ḥoma, Jerusalem, and the Beginning of the Chalk-Vessel Industry (pp. 1–27)

  Dennis Mizzi, Ayala Zilberstein, Débora Sandhaus, Rina Avner and Shua Kisilevitz

  Keywords: Chalk vessels, chalk-quarry workshops, Jewish ritual purity, late Second Temple period, Har Ḥoma, Jerusalem

• Ritual Purification and Bathing: The Location and Function of Siloam Pool and Solomon’s Pool in Second Temple Period Jerusalem (pp. 29–44)
  

  Nahshon Szanton

  Keywords: purification, bathing, First Wall, Silwan Pool, Siloam Pool, Birkat el-Ḥamra, Pool of Solomon, Tyropoeon Valley

• Jewish Pilgrimage, Temple Sacrifices and ‘Disposable’ Cooking Pots (pp. 45–58)
  

  Omri Abadi

  Keywords: Second Temple period, Jerusalem, pilgrimage, cooking-pot production, ritual purity, ceremonial feasting

• Late Roman–Byzantine-Period Ritual Baths at Ḥorbat Susya in Daroma (pp. 59–96)
  

  Yuval Baruch and Ronny Reich

  Keywords: purity, ritual bath, miqweh, Daroma, synagogue, Jewish village, Late Roman period, Byzantine period, priest, oil press, winepress

• Archaeology, Purity and Society: Some Methodological Reflections (pp. 97–113)

  Eyal Regev

  Keywords: Purity, ritual baths, stone vessels, social archaeology, ethnicity, individualism

• The Rise and Fall of ‘Purity Culture’ in the Land of Israel: A Historic Perspective (pp. 115–157)
  

  Zeev Safrai

  Keywords: Purity, social development, miqweh, priests, Rabbis, sages, sects

• Jewish Ritual Immersion in the Longue Durée: From Earliest Manifestations until Today (159–181)
  

  Yonatan Adler

  Keywords: Judaism, ritual purity, ritual immersion, ritual immersion pools, ritual baths

• A Second-Temple Period Chalk Quarry and Vessel- Production Cave Complex on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem (pp. 185–274)
  

  Jon Seligman, David Amit and Irina Zilberbod

  Keywords: Jewish, Halakha, purity, chalk vessel industry, workshop, quarry, technology, quantification

• The Pottery Assemblage from the Mount Scopus Chalk-Vessel Production Cave (pp. 275–286)
  

  Débora Sandhaus

  Keywords: Pottery, Roman period, Herodian period, between the Revolts
• Stratigraphic Setting and Lithology of Mount Scopus Chalk Quarry Cave (pp. 287–293)
  

  Amos Frumkin and Ze’ev Lewy

  Keywords: bedrock stratigraphy, lithology, depositional paleoenvironment

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