Please note 10 recently published studies that are the outcome of the ongoing research efforts of the project staff:
* Ackermann, O., Maeir, A., Bruins, H., and Zhevelev, H. 2005. Anthropogenic and Natural Changes of Calcrete (“Nari”) Cover in the Tell es-Safi/Gath Area: The Effect on Sarcopoterium Spinosum Distribution (In Hebrew with English abstract). Judea and Samaria Research and Studies 14: 431-45.
* Ackermann, O., Maeir, A., and Bruins, H. 2005. Evidence of the Ancient Landscape Around Archaeological Sites - a “Stage” for Ancient Human Activity: A Case Study from Tell es-Safi/Gath (In Hebrew). Pp. 309-30 in Archaeology and Environment: Conference Proceedings, ed. O. Ackermann, A. Faust and A. Maeir. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University.
* Ackermann, O., Bruins, H., Sarah, P., Zhevelev, H., and Maeir, A. 2005. Landscape Archaeology in a Dry-Stream Valley Near Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): Agricultural Terraces and the Origin of Fill Deposits. Environmental Archaeology 10(2): 199-215.
* Ackermann, O., Bruins, H., and Maeir, A. 2005. A Unique Human-Made Trench at Tell Es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Anthropogenic Impact and Landscape Response. Geoarchaeology 20(3): 303-28.
* Avissar, R. 2004. Reanalysis of Bliss and Macalister’s Excavations at Tell es-Safi in 1899. Unpublished MA Thesis, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan (Hebrew).
* Maeir, A. 2005. Philister-Keramik. Pp. 528-36 in Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Band 14. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.
* Maeir, A.M. 2005. Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project. Jahrbuch des Deutschen Evangelischen Instituts für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes 9/10: 185-86.
* Maeir, A., Martin, M., and Wimmer, S. 2005. An Incised Hieratic Inscription from Tell es-Safi, Israel. Egypt and the Levant 14: 125-34.
* Maeir, A., and Shai, I. 2005. Iron Age IIA Chalices from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 357–66 in Timelines. Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak, Vol. II, eds. E. Czerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman and A. Schwab. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 149. Leuven: Peeters.
* Uziel, J., and Maeir, A. 2005. Scratching the Surface at Gath: Implications of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Surface Survey. Tel Aviv 32(1): 50–75.
We are working hard on producing more studies (there are also several in press), including, hopefully in the near future, the first volume on the excavations. I will update when additional publications appear. Aren
