Aren M. Maeir – CV and Publications (2013-2020)

Curriculum Vitae

October, 2020

 Name: Aren M. Maeir

Birth Date: March 18, 1958

Birthplace: Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A.

Family Status: Married + 3 children + 3 grandchildren

Citizenship: U.S.A., Israel

Address:

Home: 31 Reuven St., Jerusalem, ISRAEL, 93510; Tel.: +972-(0)2-6710404 (H); +972-(0)54-6205082 (M)

Work: Institute of Archaeology, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, ISRAEL; Tel.: +972-(0)3-5318299/350; Fax +972-(0)3-6354941

E-mail: aren.maeir@biu.ac.il; arenmaeir@gmail.com

Project Websites: https://gath.wordpress.com; aramisrael.org

IDF Army Service

Compulsory and Career Service – July 1977-December 1982; Reserve Service – 1983-1998 (attained rank of Captain).

Education

Date                    Institution            Department           Degree

1988-97             Hebrew Univ.         Archaeology            PhD (summa cum laude)

1986-88                   “         “                   “                         MA

1982-86                   “         “             Archaeology/           BA (summa cum laude)

Jewish History

Academic Positions

Date                          Institution                                    Position

2010-present             Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan   Full Professor

2013 (spring smstr)   Univ. of California, San Diego     Visiting Distinguished Professor

2004-2010                 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan   Associate Professor

2002-2003                 MIT, Cambridge MA                    Dibner Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow

1999-2004                 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan   Senior Lecturer

Bar-Ilan University Administrative Positions:

  1. Chair, Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, 2004-2007
  2. Chairman, Student Disciplinary Appeals Committee, 2015-2020
  3. Research Coordinator, Faculty of Jewish Studies, 2018-present
  4. Head, Institute of Archaeology, 2019-present
  5. Director, the Ingeborg Renner Center for Jerusalem Studies, 2020-present

Current and Previous Professional and Public Positions

  • Director, the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project – 1997-present
  • Area editor (Bronze and Iron Age Archaeology) for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception; published by de Gruyter, Berlin) – 2010-present
  • Co-editor, The Israel Exploration Journal (Jerusalem) – 2013-present
  • Co-director, the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB; aramisrael.org) – 2014–present
  • Co-editor of book series “Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds” (de Gruyter, Berlin).
  • Co-editor of book series “Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (Möhr Seibeck, Tubingen).
  • Member of the executive committee of the World Union of Jewish Studies – 2016-present
  • Member of the Human Heritage Advisory Board of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority – 2015-present
  • Member of the board of directors of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority – 2015-2019.
  • Co-director of the Joint BIU/WIS program in archaeological science – 2006-2011.
  • Member, The Archaeological Council of Israel – 2020-present.

 Fellowships, Awards and Prizes

  1. Ernst Wright Award, 2011, of the American Schools of Oriental Research for the book: “In the Midst of the Jordan” (Maeir, Vienna, 2010).
  2. Corresponding Member, Deutsches Archäolgishes Institut, as of Nov. 2012.
  3. 2013 Biblical Archaeology Society Award for Best Scholarly Book in Archaeology for “Tell es-Safi/Gath I” ([ed.]; A. Maeir, Wiesbaden, 2012).
  4. Distinguished Researcher Award, Bar-Ilan University Rector, 2016.
  5. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award, 2019, of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Master, PhD and Post-Doctoral Students

Master’s Degree

  1. Itzkaq Shai
  2. Uziel
  3. Millo
  4. Avissar
  5. Dueitsch
  6. Shelach
  7. Zweig
  8. Cassuto
  9. Keter
  10. Gur-Arieh
  11. Hocherman
  12. Abarbanel
  13. Levmore
  14. Sapir
  15. Dagan
  16. McKinny
  17. Kisos
  18. Szanton
  19. Albeck
  20. Eniukhina
  21. Bendor
  22. Guri (in process)
  23. Berko (in process)
  24. Davidsko (in process)

PhD Students

  1. Shai (VP and Dean of research, Ariel University)
  2. Uziel (Israel Antiquities Authority)
  3. Ben-Shlomo (Ariel University)
  4. Ackermann (Ariel University)
  5. Levy (Ashkelon College)
  6. Avissar (Ono College)
  7. Gur-Arieh (University of Munich)
  8. Im (Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC)
  9. McKinny (Texas A&M University)
  10. Sakal
  11. Avraham (private sector)
  12. Pincus (private sector)
  13. Regev (Israel Antiquities Authority)
  14. Dagan (BIU)
  15. Cassuto
  16. Kisos/Albaz
  17. Orbach (in process)
  18. Workman (in process)
  19. Reed (in process)
  20. Qionghui (in process)
  21. Eniukhina (in process)
  22. Abarbanel (in process)
  23. Ben-Dor (in process)

Post-Doctoral Students

  1. Ackermann (Ariel University)
  2. Horwitz (Hebrew University)
  3. Eliyahu-Behar (currently works at Ariel University)
  4. A Dagan (BIU)
  5. Levavi (Vienna University)
  6. Ben-Yosef (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
  7. Cassuto (current)

Research Grants (total granted funding ca. $7,200,000)

  1. Research Grant, Yad-Hanadiv (Rothschild) Foundation, 1991 ($10,000).
  2. Hebrew University International Congress Travel Grant for Doctoral Candidates, 1993 ($1,000).
  3. Research Grant, Berman Center for Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew University, 1997 ($5,000).
  4. Research Grant, Center for Cooperation between the Sciences and Archaeology, Weizman Institute, 1998 ($5,000).
  5. Research Grant, Krauthiemer Chair in Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, 1995-2020 (ca. NIS 4,000 annually).
  6. Research Grant, Ihel Foundation, Bar-Ilan University, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2015 (ca. NIS 7,000 annually).
  7. Research Grant, Auxillary Research Project of “The Synchrononization of Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd Millennium BC”, A Special Research Programme of the Austrian Academy, funded by the Austrian National Bank Jubilee Fund, 1999 ($5,000).
  8. Research Grant, “Keren Izvonot” (Israel Government “Legacy” Research Fund), 1999 (NIS 20,000).
  9. Research Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2000 ($10,000)
  10. Research Grant, Cotsen Foundation, 2000 ($5,000)
  11. Research Grant, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 2001 ($6,000).
  12. Research Grant (as PI), European Commission, Access to Research Infrastructures Action, IHP Programme, Large Scale Geochemical Facility, University of Bristol, UK (co-recipient with D. Ben-Shlomo), 2002, 2003 (covered travel from Israel and R&B in UK, and use of facilities in Bristol, UK)
  13. Research Grant, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 2003 ($8,000)
  14. Research Grant, Cotsen Foundation, 2003 ($5,000).
  15. Research Grant (as co-PI), German Israeli Foundation for Science Research and Development (GIF, with M. Goerg, Univ. of Munich), 2004-2006 (€240,000).
  16. Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation, 2004-2006 ($130,000).
  17. Publication Grant, Archaeological Institute of America, 2004 ($5000).
  18. Publication Grant, Mediterranean Archaeological Trust, 2004 ($3,000).
  19. Research Grant (as co-PI), National Geographic Society (with J. Lev-Tov, Univ. of Mainz, and L. Horwitz, HU), 2005-2006 ($18,000).
  20. Research Grant (as PI), Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection (with O. Ackermann, Bar-Ilan University), 2005 (NIS 120,000).
  21. Publication Grant (as co-PI), Shelby White Fund for Archaeological publications (with J. Uziel), for publication of Tel Nagila excavations, 2006-2009 ($60,000).
  22. Research Grant, The Israel Science Foundation, 2007-2009 (ca. $180,000).
  23. Research Grant, Collaborative Research Grants, University of Melbourne (with L. Hitchcock, University of Melbourne), 2008 ($15,000).
  24. Research Grant (as CI), Collaborative Research Grants, University of Melbourne (with L. Hitchcock, University of Melbourne), 2009 ($15,000).
  25. Research Grant, Institute for Aegean Prehistory (with L. Hitchcock, University of Melbourne [co-PI]), 2009 ($10,000).
  26. Research Grant (as CI), Australian Research Council Discovery Project (with L. Hitchcock, University of Melbourne [PI]), 2010-2113 ($500,000): “In the wake of the Sea Peoples, in the footsteps of Goliath – Excavating the Philistine Site of Tell es-Safi/Gath”
  27. Research Grant, The Israel Science Foundation, 2010-2013 ($166,000): “Gath after the Philistines: Tell es-Safi/Gath in the 8th century BCE)”
  28. Research Grant, German Israeli Foundation for Science Research and Development (GIF, with J. Maran, Univ. of Heidelberg), 2011-2013 (Euro 185,000).
  29. Research Grant, Ihel Foundation (BIU), granted December 2011 – NIS 10,000: “Evidence of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah at Tell es-Safi/Gath”
  30. Research Grant, the Israel Science Foundation F.I.R.S.T. (BIKURA) cycle, ($295,000 2011-2014): “A paleo-perspective on “Invasion Biology”: A case study from the Late Bronze Age/Iron Age transition at the archaeological site of Tell es-Safi/Gath” (with E. Weiss [BIU]).
  31. Research grant, Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (with Prof. H. Greenfield, University of Manitoba), 2012-2017 ($2,700,000): “The nature of early urban neighbourhoods in the southern Levant: Early Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi”.
  32. Research Grant, The Israel Science Foundation, 2013-2017 ($185,000): “Shuwardata’s City: Tell es-Safi/Gath during the Late Bronze Age”.
  33. Minerva Stiftung (Germany) Research Center, 2015-2021 (Euro 950,000): “The Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times”.
  34. INSTAP – “Rubbish, Ruins and Ritual at Philistine Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel)” (with Louise Hitchcock and Linda Meiberg) – 2015 ($7500)
  35. INSTAP – “Excavating Goliath’s Neighborhood: Investigating Early Iron Age Remains in Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel)” (with Louise Hitchcock and Linda Meiberg) – 2015 ($5000)
  36. Minerva Stiftung (Germany) Equipment Grant, 2017 (Euro 40,000). Spatial measuring equipment.
  37. Israel Science Foundation Institutional Equipment Grant, 2017 (1,000,000 NIS). Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR scanning equipment (with R. Kent and B. Zissu).
  38. Grant to produce Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Biblical Archaeology (for edX.org), from the Israeli Government, 2018 (NIS 420,000).
  39. Research Grant, Ihel Foundation (BIU), 2018 – NIS 4,000: “Remote Sensing at Tell es-Safi/Gath”
  40. Minerva Stiftung (Germany) Equipment Grant, 2018 (Euro 18,000). 3D imagery equipment.
  41. Minerva Stiftung (Germany) Gentner Syposium Grant, 2018 (Euro 50,000) for international conference on diet and food and its meaning in the biblical world (with P. Stockhammer, Univ of Munich) to be held in May 2019.
  42. Research Grant, The Israel Science Foundation, 2018-2022 ($400,000): “Gath at Its Greatest: The Lower City of Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath”.
  43. Minerva Stiftung (Germany) Equipment Grant, 2019 (Euro 25,000). 3D printer and related equipment.
  44. Israel Science Foundation Workshop Grant, 2020 (70,000 NIS).
  45. Minerva Stiftung (Germany) Equipment Grant, 2020 (Euro 20,000), for upgrading of Minerva RIAB Center website.

Aren M. Maeir

Publications (up to October 2020)

Books (=2):

Maeir, A. M.

2004            Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tel Gezer, Israel: Finds from the Excavations by Raymond-Charles Weill in 1914 and 1921, with contributions by N. Panitz-Cohen, D. Barag, O. Keel, N. Applbaum and Y. H. Applbaum. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1206. Oxford: Archaeopress.

2010            “In the Midst of the Jordan”: The Jordan Valley during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1500 BCE) – Archaeological and Historical Correlates. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean, Vol. 26. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Edited Volumes (=16):

Ackermann, O., Faust, A., and Maeir, A. M., eds.

2005            Archaeology and Environment: Conference Proceedings (In Hebrew). Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University.

Berlejung, A., Maeir. A. M., and Schuele, A., eds.

2017            Wandering Arameans: Arameans Outside Syria – Textual and Archaeological Perspectives. Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Berlejung, A., and Maeir, A. M., eds.

2019            Research on Israel and Aram: Autonomy, Interdependence and Related Issues. Proceedings of the First Annual RIAB Center Conference, Leipzig, June 2016. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB), Vol. 1. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

In press       Rewriting History by Destruction. Papers read at the Third Annual Conference of the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times, Leipzig, May 14–17th, 2018. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB) 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Faust, A., and Maeir, A. M., eds.

1999            Material Culture, Society and Ideology: New Directions in the Archaeology of the Land of Israel. Ramat-Gan: Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies.

Galil, G., Gilboa, A., Maeir, A. M., and Kahn, D., eds.

2012            The Ancient Near East in the 12th-10th Centuries BCE: Culture and History. Proceedings of the International Conference held at the University of Haifa, 2-5 May, 2010. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 392. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Lipschits, O., and Maeir, A. M., eds.

2017            The Shephelah during the Iron Age: Recent Archaeological Studies. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Maeir, A. M., ed.

2012            Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2017/2018   The Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath Archaeological Project. Near Eastern Archaeology 80/4-81/1. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research.

Submitted    Excavations at Mamilla, Jerusalem, Vol. I: The 1989 Season. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority.

Maeir, A. M., Dar, S., and Safrai, Z., eds.

2003            The Rural Landscape of Ancient Israel. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1121. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Maeir, A. M., and de Miroschedji, P., eds.

2006            “I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times”: Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Maeir, A. M., Magness, J., and Schiffman, L. H., eds.

2012            ‘Go Out and Study the Land’ (Judges 18:2): Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel. Supplement to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 148. Leiden: Brill.

Maeir, A. M., Shai, I., and McKinny, C., eds.

2019            The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan. Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds 2. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Maeir, A. M., and Uziel, J., eds.

2020            Tell es-Safi/Gath II: Excavations and Studies. Ägypten und Altes Testament 105. Münster: Zaphon.

Maeir, A. M., Berlejung, A., Eshel, E., and Oshima, T. M., eds.

2021            New Perspectives on Aramaic Epigraphy in Mesopotamia, Qumran, Egypt and Idumea: Proceedings of the Joint RIAB Minerva Center and the Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center of Jewish History Conference. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB) 2. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Articles and Chapters (=278):

Ackermann, O., Bruins, H. J., and Maeir, A. M.

2004            Human Impact on Landscape Evolution in the Environs of Tell es-Safi/Gath (Judean Shephelah) During the Last 3000 Years (In Hebrew with English abstract). Judea and Samaria 13: 417-28, XXIX-XXX.

2005            A Unique Human-Made Trench at Tell eṣ-Ṣȃfi/Gath, Israel: Anthropogenic Impact and Landscape Response. Geoarchaeology 20(3): 303-28.

Ackermann, O., Maeir, A. M., and Bruins, H. J.

2004            Unique Human-Made Catenary Changes and Their Effect on Soil and Vegetation in the Semi-Arid Mediterranean Zone: A Case Study on Sarcopterium Spinosum Distribution near Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. Catena 57: 309-30.

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. 33-60 in Archaeology and Environment: Conference Proceedings, eds. O. Ackermann, A. Faust and A. M. Maeir. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University.

Ackermann, O., Maeir, A. M., Bruins, H. J., 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., Bruins, H. J., Sarah, P., Zhevelev, H., and Maeir, A. M.

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., Greenbaum, N., Bruins, H. J., Bar-Matthews, M., Ayalon, A., Almogi-Labin, A., Schilman, B., and Maeir, A. M.

2012            Chapter 24: The Environmental and Paleogeographical History of Tell es-Safi/Gath Over the Past Four Millennia. Pp. 531-56 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Alten Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Ackermann, O., Greenbaum, N., Bruins, H., Bar-Matthews, M., Almogi-Labin, A., Schilman, B., Ayalon, A., Horwitz, L. K., Weiss, E., and Maeir, A. M.

2014            Palaeoenvironment and Anthropogenic Activity in the Southeastern Mediterranean Since the Mid-Holocene: The Case of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Quaternary International 328-329: 226-43.

Ackermann, O., Greenbaum, N., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, A., Boaretto, E., Bruins, H., Cabanes, D., Horwitz, L. K., Neumann, F., Porat, N., Weiss, E., and Maeir, A. M.

2014            Using Palaeo-Environmental Proxies to Reconstruct Natural and Anthropogenic Controls on Sedimentation Rates, Tell es-Safi/Gath, Eastern Mediterranean. Anthropocene 8: 70-82.

Ackermann, O., Greenbaum, N., Osband, M., Almogi-Labin, A., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, A., Boaretto, E., Bruins, H. J., Cabanes, D., Horwitz, L. K., Neumann, F. H., Porat, N., Schilman, B., Weiss, E., and Maeir, A. M.

2015            Chapter 19: Soil and Sediments as an Archive of Landscape History: The Case Study of Tell es-Safi/Gath, in the Eastern Mediterranean. Pp. 281-94 in Soils and Sediments as Archives of Environmental Change. Geoarchaeology and Landscape Change in the Subtropics and Tropics, eds. B. Lucke, R. Bäumler and M. Schmidt. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten Band 42. Erlangen: Palm und Enke Verlag.

Ackermann, O., Weiss, E., Zhevelev, H., Maeir, A., Frumin, S., and Horwitz, L. K.

2015            Key Points in the Paleo-Anthropocene Period in Israel: Past Human Activity as the Designer of the Present-Day Landscape (In Hebrew with English Abstract). The Geography Network 8: 61-74.

Ackermann, O., Greenbaum, N., Bruins, H., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Cabanes, D., Horwitz, L. K., Neumann, F. H., Osband, M., Porat, N., Weiss, E., and Maeir, A. M.

2017            Ancient Environment and Human Interaction at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 244-46.

Ackermann, O., Maeir, A. M., Frumin, S., Svoray, T., Weiss, E., Zhevelev, H., and Horwitz, L. K.

2017            The Paleo-Anthropocene and the Genesis of the Current Landscape of Israel. Journal of Landscape Ecology 10(3): 109-40.

Albaz, S., Greenfield, H. J., Greenfield, T. L., and Maeir, A. M.

2017            Evidence for Administration and Leisure/Recreation at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 270-72.

Albaz, S., Greenfield, H. J., Greenfield, T. L., Brown, A., Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

Submitted    Daily Life and Cultural Appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and Gaming in a Domestic Neighborhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

Albaz, S., Shai, I., Greenfield, H. J., and Maeir, A. M.

2017            Board Games in Biblical Gath. Biblical Archaeology Review 43(5): 22, 68.

Aouizerat, T., Gutmana, I., Paz, I., Maeir, A. M., Gadot, Y., Gleman, D., Szitenberg, A., Drori, E., Pinkus, A., Schoeman, M., Kaplan, R., Ben-Gedalya, T., Coppenhagen-Glazer, S., Reich, E., Saragovi, A., Lipschits, O., Klutstein, M., and Hazan, R.

2019            Isolation and Characterization of Live Yeast Cells from Ancient Vessels as a Tool in Bio-Archeology. MBio 10:e00388-19.

Aouizerat, T., Maeir, A. M., Paz, I., Gadot, Y., Szitenberg, A., Alkalay-Oren, S., Coppenhagen-Glazer, S., Klutstein, M., and Hazan, R.

2020            Isolation and Characterization of Live Yeast Cells from Ancient Clay Vessels. Bio-Protocol 10(1): https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.3473.

Arnold, E. R., Hartman, G., Greenfield, H. J., Shai, I., Babcock, and Maeir, A. M.

2016            Isotopic Evidence for Early Trade in Animals Between Old Kingdom Egypt and Canaan. PLoS One 11(6): e0157650.

Arnold, E. R., Greenfield, H. J., Hartman, G., Greenfield, T. L., Shai, I., Carter-McGee, P. M., and Maeir, A. M.

2018            Provisioning the Early Bronze Age City of Tell es-Safi, Israel: Isotopic Analyses of Domestic Livestock Management Patterns. Open Quartenary 4(1): DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/oq.35

Asscher, Y., Cabanes, D., Hitchcock, L. A., Maeir, A. M., Weiner, S., and Boaretto, E.

2015            Radiocarbon Dating Shows an Early Appearance of Philistine Material Culture in Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistia. Radiocarbon 57(5): 825-50.

Avissar Lewis, R. S., and Maeir, A. M.

2012            Chapter 2BA: A Reanalysis of Bliss and Macalister’s Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath in 1899. Pp. 109-22 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. M. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012            Chapter 6B: A Reanalysis of Bliss and Macalister’s Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath in 1899. Pp. 109-22 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012            Chapter 15: The Iron Age IIB Pottery: A Preliminary Study. Pp. 365-82 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2015            Bliss and Macalister’s Work at Tell es-Safi/Gath: A Reappraisal in Light of the Recent Excavations. Pp. 107-11 in Villain or Visionary? Macalister and the Archaeology of Palestine, ed. S. E. Wolff. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, Vol. 12. London: Maney.

2017            New Insights into Bliss and Macalister’s Excavations at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 241-43.

Avissar, R., Uziel, J., and Maeir, A. M.

2007            Tell es-Safi/Gath During the Persian Period. Pp. 65-115 in A Time of Change: Judah and Its Neighbors in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods, ed. Y. Levin. London: T&T Clark International.

Bahat, D., and Maeir, A. M.

1989            Municipality Square (In Hebrew). Hadashot Archaeologiot 94: 47.

1993            The Archaeological Excavations (In Hebrew). Pp. 323-26, 330-32 in The Making of City Hall Complex, Jerusalem, D. Kroyanker. Jerusalem: Ariel.

Beller, J. A., Greenfield, H. J., Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

2016            The Life-History of Basalt Ground Stone Artefacts from Early Urban Contexts: A View from the EB III of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Lithic Studies 3(3).

Beller, J. A., Greenfield, H. J., Fayek, M., Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

2016            Provenance and Exchange of Basalt Ground Stone Artefacts of EB III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 9: 226-37.

2019            Raw Material Variety and Acquisition of the EB III Ground Stone Assemblage of Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel). Pp. 121-50 in Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: Ground Stone Tools, Rock-Cut Installations and Stone Vessels from the Prehistory to Late Antiquity, eds. A. Squitieri and D. Eitam. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Ben-Shlomo, D., Maeir, A. M., and Mommsen, H.

2008            Neutron Activation and Petrographic Analysis of Selected Late Bronze and Iron Age Pottery from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 956-64.

Ben-Shlomo, D., Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

2004            Late Philistine Decorated Ware (“Ashdod Ware”): Typology, Chronology and Production Centers. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 335: 1-35.

Ben-Shlomo, D., Shai, I., Zukerman, A., and Maeir, A. M.

2008            Cooking Identities: Aegean-Style and Philistine Cooking Jugs and Cultural Interaction in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. American Journal of Archaeology 112(2 April): 225-46.

Ben-Shlomo, D., Uziel, J., and Maeir, A. M.

2009            Pottery Production at Tell es-Safi/Gath: A Longue Durée Perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 2258-73.

Boaretto, E., Asscher, Y., Hitchcock, L. A., Lehmann, G., Maeir, A. M., and Weiner, S.

2019            The Chronology of the Late Bronze (LB)-Iron Age (IA) Transition in the Southern Levant: A Response to Israel Finkelstein’s Paper. Radiocarbon 61(1): 1-11.

Boas, A. J., and Maeir, A. M.

1998            The Renewed Excavations at Tell e-Safi/Gath (In Hebrew). Pp. 31-37 in The Judaean Shephelah – Man, Nature and Landscape: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies, May 19th, 1998, ed. O. Ackermann. Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University.

2009            The Crusader Castle Blanche Garde and Later Remains at Tell es-Safi in Light of Recent Discoveries. Crusades 9: 1-22.

Boas, A. J., Maeir, A. M., and Schneider, T.

1998            Tel Zafit (In Hebrew). Hadashot Archaeologiot 108: 156.

Chadwick, J. R., and Maeir, A. M.

2012            How Households Can Illuminate the Historical Record: The Judahite Houses at Gath of the Philistines (A Case Study in Household Archaeology at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel). Pp. 601-18 in Household Archaeology: New Perspectives from the Near East and Beyond, eds. B. Parker and C. Foster. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

2020            Chapter 5: The Stratigraphy and Architecture of Area F-Upper, Strata F4-F8A. In Tell es-Safi/Gath II: Excavations and Studies, eds. A. M. Maeir and J. Uziel. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Münster: Ugarit-verlag.

Chadwick, J. R., Uziel, J., Welch, E. L., and Maeir, A. M.

2017            Walled Up To Heaven! Early and Middle Bronze Age Fortifications at Tell Eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 285-91.

Creekmore, A. T., III, and Maeir, A. M.

In press       Philistine Urban Form at Tell es-Safi, Israel: A Magnetometric Perspective. Levant.

Dagan, A., Eniukhina, M., and Maeir, A. M.

2018            Excavations in Area D of the Lower City: Philistine Cultic Remains and Other Finds. Near Eastern Archaeology 81(4): 28-33.

Davis, B., Maeir, A. M., and Hitchcock, L. A.

2015            Disentangling Entangled Objects: Iron Age Inscriptions from Philistia as a Reflection of Cultural Processes. Israel Exploration Journal 65(2): 140-65.

Eliyahu-Behar, A., Elbaz, S., Shai, I., Maeir, A. M., and Greenfield, H. J.

2016            Faience Beads from Early Bronze Age Contexts at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 7: 609-13.

Eliyahu-Behar, A., Shai, I., Regev, L., Ben-Shlomo, D., Albaz, S., Maeir, A. M., and Greenfield, H. J.

2016            Early Bronze Age Pottery Covered with Lime-Plaster: Technological Observations. Tel Aviv 43: 27-42.

Eliyahu-Behar, A., Shai, I., Gur-Arieh, S., Frumin, S., Elbaz, S., Weiss, E., Manclossi, F., Rosen, S., Greenfield, T., Greenfield, H. J., and Maeir, A. M.

2017            Early Bronze Age Pebble Installations from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Evidence for Their Function and Utility. Levant 49(1): 46-63.

Eliyahu-Behar, A., Yahalom-Mack, N., Shilstein, S., Zukerman, A., Shafer-Elliott, C., Maeir, A. M., Boaretto, E., Finkelstein, I., and Weiner, S.

2012            Iron and Bronze Production in Iron Age IIA Philistia: New Evidence from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(2): 255-67.

Eshel, E., Notarius, T., Dagan, A., Eniukhina, M., Workman, V., and Maeir, A. M.

In press       Two Iron Age Alphabetic Inscriptions from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Eshel, T., Yahalom-Mack, N., Tirosh, O., Maeir, A. M., Gilboa, A., and Erel, Y.

In press       Pollution and Human Mobility in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age Using Chemical and Isotopic Analysis of Human Tooth Enamel. Journal of Archaeological Science.

Faerman, M., Boaretto, E., Uziel, J., Maeir, A. M., and Smith, P.

2011            “…In Their Lives, and in Their Death…”: A Preliminary Study of an Iron Age Burial Cave at Tell es-Safi, Israel. Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina Vereins 127(1): 29-48.

Faerman, M., Maeir, A. M., Dagan, A., and Smith, P.

2018            Women in Distress: Victims of the Iron Age Destruction at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 81(1): 37-40.

Fowler, K. D., Walker, E., Greenfield, H. J., Ross, J., and Maeir, A. M.

2019            The Identity of Potters in Early States: Determining the Age and Sex of Fingerprints on Early Bronze Age Pottery from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 26: 1470-512.

Fowler, K. D., Ross, J., Walker, E., Barritt-Clearly C., Greenfield, H. J., and Maeir, A. M.

2020            Fingerprint Evidence for the Division of Labour and Learning Pottery-Making at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. PLoS One 15(4): e0231046.

Frumin, S., Maeir, A. M., Horwitz, L. K., and Weiss, E.

2105            Studying Ancient Anthropogenic Impact on Current Floral Biodiversity in the Southern Levant as Reflected by the Philistine Migration. Scientific Reports 5(13308): 1-10.

Frumin, S., Melamed, Y., Maeir, A. M., Greenfield, H. J., and Weiss, E.

Submitted    Human Connectivity during the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant: Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Walled City of Tell es- Ṣâfī/ Gath. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Fuks, D., Ackermann, O., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Bar-Oz, G., Levi, Y., Maeir, A. M., Weiss, E., Zilberman, T., and Safrai, Z.

2017            Dust Clouds, Climate Change and Coins: Consiliences of Paleoclimate and Economic History in the Late Antique Southern Levant. Levant 49(2): 205-23.

Gadot, Y., Finkelstein, I., Iserlis, M., Maeir, A. M., Nahshoni, P., and Namdar, D.

2014            Tracking down Cult: Production, Function and Content of Chalices in Iron Age Philistia. Tel Aviv 41(1): 55-76.

Greenfield, H. J., Brown, A., Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

2016            Preliminary Analysis of the Fauna from the Early Bronze Age III Neighbourhood at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Pp. 170-92 in Bones and Identity: Archaeozoological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia, eds. N. Marom, R. Yeshurun, L. Weissbrod and G. Bar-Oz. Oxford: Oxbow.

2018            Unravelling the Meaning of Faunal Assemblages in an Early Urban Domestic Neighbourhood: Worked Bone Frequencies from the Early Bronze Age III Neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi, Israel. Pp. 109-22 in Archaeozoology of the Near East XII. Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium of the ICAZ Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, June 14-15 2015, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, eds. C. Cakirlar, R. Berthon and J. Chahoud. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing.

Greenfield, H. J., Greenfield, T. L., Arnold, E., Shai, E., Albaz, S., and Maeir, A. M.

In press       Evidence for Movement of Goods and Animals from Egypt to Canaan During the Early Bronze of the Southern Levant: A View from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Ägypten und Levante.

Greenfield, T. L., Greenfield, H. J., Brown, A., Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

In press       Spatial Variation in Faunal Distributions between Households and Insights into Early Urban Society: The Early Bronze III at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. In Proceedings of Vienna 10th ICAANE, eds. F. Höflmayer et al.

Greenfield, H. J., Greenfield, T. L., Shai, I., Albaz, S., and Maeir, A. M.

2018            Household Rituals and Sacrificial Donkeys: Why Are There So Many Domestic Donkeys Buried in an Early Bronze Age Neighborhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath? Near Eastern Archaeology 81(3): 202-11.

Greenfield, H. J., Ross, J., Greenfield, T. L., and Maeir, A. M.

In press       Sacred and the Profane: Donkey Burial and Consumption at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. In Fierce Lions, Angry Mice and Fat-Tailed Sheep: Animal Encounters in the Ancient Near East, eds. L. Recht and C. Tsouparopoulou. McDonald Institute Monographs: Conversations Series. Cambridge: McDonald Institute.

Greenfield, H., Shai, I., Greenfield, T., Arnold, E., Brown, A., Eliyahu-Behar, A., and Maeir, A. M.

2018            Earliest Evidence for Equid Bit Wear in the Ancient Near East: The “Ass” from Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. PLoS One 13(5): e0196335.

Greenfield, H. J., Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

2012            Being an “Ass”: An Early Bronze Age Burial of a Donkey from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Bioarchaeology of the Ancient Near East 6: 21-52.

2017            The Early Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 247-54.

2020            Domestic Life during the Early Bronze III: A View from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Pp. 213-33 in New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant, ed. S. Richard. College Park, PA: Eisenbrauns.

Greenfield, H. J., Wing, D., and Maeir, A. M.

2015            LiDAR Technology as an Analytical Tool at Tell es-Safi, Israel. Pp. 76-85 in Breaking Barriers: Proceedings of the 47th Annual Chacmool Conference, November 7-9, 2014, eds. R. Crook, K. Edwards and C. Hughes. Calgary: University of Calgary.

In press       Terrestrial LiDAR Survey as a Heritage Management Tool: The Example of Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 155-69 in Proceedings of the 10th ICAANE. CIPA Workshop on Preserving Syrian Heritage, Vienna, April 24-30., ed. M. A. Silver. OREA – Oriental and European Archaeology. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Gur-Arieh, S., Maeir, A. M., and Shahack-Gross, R.

2011            Soot Patterns on Cooking Vessels: A Short Note. Pp. 349-55 in On Cooking Pots, Drinking Cups, Loom Weights and Ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and Neigbouring Regions. An International Archaeological Symposium Held in Nicosia, November 6th-7th 2010, eds. V. Karageorghis and O. Kouka. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.

Gur-Arieh, S., Boaretto, E., Maeir, A. M., and Shahack-Gross, R.

2012            Formation Processes in Philistine Hearths from Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): An Experimental Approach. Journal of Field Archaeology 37(2): 121-31.

Gur-Arieh, S., Shahack-Gross, R., Maeir, A. M., Lehmann, G., Hitchcock, L. A., and Boaretto, E.

2014            The Taphonomy and Preservation of Wood and Dung Ashes Found in Archaeological Cooking Installations: Case Studies from Iron Age Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 46(1): 50-67.

Gur-Arieh, S., and Maeir, A. M.

2020            Area C: The Siege Trench and Other Features. In Tell es-Safi/Gath II: Excavations and Studies, eds. A. M. Maeir and J. Uziel. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Münster: Zaphon.

Hitchcock, L. A., and Maeir, A. M.

2013            Beyond Creolization and Hybridity: Entangled and Transcultural Identities in Philistia. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 28(1): 51-74.

2014            Yo-Ho, Yo-Ho, a Seren’s Life for Me! World Archaeology 46(3): 624–40.

2016            A Pirates’ Life for Me: The Maritime Culture of the Sea People. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 148(4): 245-64.

2016            Pulp Fiction: The Sea Peoples and the Study of ‘Mycenaean’ Archaeology in Philistia. Pp. 145-55 in RA-PI-NE-U. Studies on the Mycenaean World Offered to Robert Laffineur for His 70th Birthday, ed. J. Driessen. AEGIS (Aegean Interdisciplinary Studies) 10. Louvain: Presses Univesitaires de Louvain.

2017            Fifteen Men on a Dead Seren’s Chest: Yo Ho Ho and a Krater of Wine. Pp. 147-59 in Context and Connection: Essays on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honour of Antonio Sagona, eds. A. Batmaz, G. Bedianashvili, A. Michalewicz and A. Robinson. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 268. Leuven: Peeters.

2017            Hesperos and Phosphoros: How Research on Aegean-Eastern Interactions Can Inform Studies of the West. Pp. 253-60 in Hesperos: The Aegean Seen from the West, eds. M. Fotiadis, R. Laffineur, Y. Lolos and A. Vlachopoulos. Aegaeum 41. Leuven: Peeters.

2017            Lost in Translation: Settlement Organization in Postpalatial Crete, a View from the East. Pp. 289-333 in Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspective on an Ancient Built Environment, eds. Q. Letesson and C. Knappett. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2018            New Insights into the Philistines in Light of Excavations at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 81(1): 6-14.

2018            Pirates of the Crete-Aegean: Migration, Mobility, and Post-Palatial Realities at the End of the Bronze Age. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of Cretan Studies, Heraklion, 21–25 September 2016. Heraklion: Cretan Historical Society.

Hitchcock, L. A., Horwitz, L. K., Boaretto, E., and Maeir, A. M.

2015            One Philistine’s Trash is an Archaeologist’s Treasure: Feasting at Iron Age I, Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 78(1): 12-25.

Hitchcock, L. A., Maeir, A. M., and Dagan, A.

2016            The Entanglement of Aegean Style Ritual Actions in Philistine Culture. Pp. 519-26 in METAPHYSIS: Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age, Proceedings of the 15th International Aegean Conference, Institute for Mediterranean and Prehistoric Archaeology, Department for Aegean and Mycenaean Research and at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna, 22-25 April 2014, eds. E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur and J. Weilhartner. Aegaeum 39. Liège: Universitë de Liège.

2016            Entangling Aegean Ritual in Philistine Culture. Pp. 519-26 in Metaphysis: Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age, eds. E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur and J. Weilhartner. Aegaeum 39. Liège: Liège University Press.

Hitchcock, L. A., Maeir, A. M., and Harris-Schober, M.

2019            Tomorrow Never Dies: Post-Palatial Memories of the Aegean Late Bronze Age in the Mediterranean. Pp. 543-49 in MNHMH/MNEME: Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 17th International Aegean Conference, University of Udine, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, 17-21 April 2018, eds. E. Borgna, I. Caloi, F. Carinci and R. Laffineur. Aegaeum 43. Leuven: Peeters.

Horwitz, L. K., Lev-Tov, J. E., Chadwick, J. R., Wimmer, S. J., and Maeir, A. M.

2006            Working Bones: A Unique Iron Age IIA Bone Workshop from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 66(3-4): 169-73.

Horwitz, L. K., Gardeisen, A., Maeir, A. M., and Hitchcock, L. A.

2017            A Brief Contribution to the Iron Age Philistine Pig Debate. Pp. 93-116 in The Wide Lens in Archaeology: Honoring Brian Hesse’s Contributions to Anthropological Archaeology, eds. J. Lev-Tov, P. Wapnish and A. Gilbert. Archaeobiology 2. Atlanta: Lockwood Press.

Horwitz, L. K., Winter-Livneh, R., and Maeir, A. M.

2018            “The Archaeological Picture Went Blank”: Historical Archaeology and GIS Analysis of the Landscape of the Palestinian Village of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi. Near Eastern Archaeology 81(1): 85-91.

Horwitz, L. K., Maeir, A. M., and Eniukhina, M.

In press       A Bone Projectile Point and Its Associated Workshop from the Iron Age IIA of Tel es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology.

Katz, O., Cabanes, D., Weiner, S., Maeir, A. M., Boaretto, E., and Shahack-Gross, R.

2010            Rapid Phytolith Extraction for on-Site Analysis of Phytolith Concentrations and Assemblages: An Application at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 37(7): 1557-63.

Maeir, A., and Boas, A.

1999            Tel Zafit – 1997 (In Hebrew and English). Hadashot Archaeologiot 110: 88, 68*.

Maeir, A. M.

1988-89       Remarks on a Supposed ‘Egyptian Residency’ at Gezer. Tel Aviv 15-16: 65-67.

1989            Hyksos Miscellanea. Discussions in Egyptology 14: 61-68.

1989            A Note on a Little-Known Egyptian Statue from Jerusalem. Gottinger Miszellen 110: 35-40.

1990            Mount Zion Gleanings. Israel Exploration Journal 40: 68-70.

1990            A Possible Hebrew-Egyptian Bilingual Inscription from the ‘Ophel’, Jerusalem. Gottinger Miszellen 114: 63-69.

1992            Selected Bibliography of the Archaeology of Biblical Jerusalem. Pp. 630-32 in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Vol. 2 (In Hebrew), ed. E. Stern. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

1993            Excavations at Mamilla in Jerusalem (In Hebrew). Qadmoniot 26(1-2(101-102)): 56-61, vol. 26.

1993            Jerusalem: Mamilla (B) (In Hebrew). Hadashot Archaeologiot 99: 55-57.

1994            Survey in the Central Jordan Valley (In Hebrew). Hadashot Archaeologiot 101-102: 119-20.

1994            The Excavations at Mamila, Phase I (1989). Pp. 299-305 in Ancient Jerusalem Revealed, ed. H. Geva. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

1994            Hyksos, Horses and Hippopotami: A Note. Levant 26: 231.

1996     The “Judahite” Swords from the “Lachish” Reliefs of Sennacherib (In Hebrew with English abstract). Eretz Israel (J. Aviram Volume) 25: 210-14, 96*.

1997            The Material Culture of the Central and Northern Jordan Valley in the Middle Bronze Age II: Pottery and Settlement Pattern. Ph. D. Dissertation. Jerusalem: Hebrew University.

1997            T.1181, Area L, Hazor: A Multiple Interment Burial Cave of the MBIIA/B Period. Pp. 295-340 in Hazor V, ed. A. Ben-Tor. Jerusalem.

1998            Philistines in Sardinia? a Critical Reapraisal. Ugarit-Forschungen 30: 497-510.

2000            Hamadiyah-North: A Rural MBII Settlement in the Beth Shean Valley. ʿAtiqot 39: 31-42.

2000            Jerusalem before King David – an Archaeological Survey from Protohistoric Times to the End of the Iron Age I (Hebrew). Pp. 33-66 in The History of Jerusalem: The Biblical Period, eds S. Ahituv and A. Mazar. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi.

2000            The Political and Economic Status of MBII Hazor and MBII Trade: An Inter- and Intra-Regional View. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 132(1): 37-58.

2000            Sassanica Varia Palaestiniensia: A Sassanian Seal from T. Iṣtaba, Israel, and Other Sassanian Objects from the Southern Levant. Iranica Antiqua 35: 159-83.

2000            Tel Zafit – 1998. Hadashot Archeologiot 112: 122-22, 97*-98*.

2001            The Philistine Culture in Transformation: A Current Perspective Based on the Results of the First Seasons of Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath (In Hebrew). Pp. 111-29 in Settlement, Civilization and Culture: Proceedings of the Conference in Memory of David Alon, eds. A. Maeir and E. Baruch. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University.

2001            Safi (Tel es-); Safit (Tell). P. 445 in Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land, ed. A. Negev, S. Gibson. 2nd ed. London: Continuum.

2001            The Baby, the Bathwater or Both: A Reaction to Kletter and De-Groot’s Proposal. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 14(1): 90-92.

2002            Perspectives on the Early MB II Period in the Jordan Valley. Pp. 261-67 in The Middle Bronze Age in the Levant: Proceedings of an International Conference on MB IIA Ceramic Material, Vienna, 24th-26th of January 2001, ed. M. Bietak. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean III. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaftern.

2002            Red, White and Blue Ware: A Little-Known Group of Painted Pottery of the Middle Bronze II Period. Pp. 228-40 in Aharon Kempinski Memorial Volume: Studies in Archaeology and Related Disciplines, vol. 15, eds. E. Oren and S. Ahituv. Beer-Sheva. Beersheva: Ben Gurion University Press.

2003            Does Size Count? Urban and Cultic Perspectives on the Rural Landscape during the Middle Bronze Age II. Pp. 61-69 in The Rural Landscape of Ancient Israel, eds. A. Maeir, S. Dar and Z. Safrai. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1121. Oxford: Archaeopress.

2003            A Late Bronze Age, Syrian-Style Figurine from Tell es-Sâfi/Gath. Pp. 197-206 in Shlomo; Studies in Epigraphy, Iconography, History and Archaeology in Honor of Shlomo Moussaieff, ed. R. Deutsch. Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Archaeological Center.

2003            Notes and News: Tell es-Safi. Israel Exploration Journal 53(3): 237-46.

2003            The Relations between Egypt and the Southern Levant During the Late Iron Age: The Material Evidence from Egypt. Ägypten und Levante 12: 235-46.

2004            The Historical Background and Dating of Amos VI 2: An Archaeological Perspective from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Vetus Testamentum 54(3): 319-34.

2004            What’s between Gath of the Philistines and Biblical Jerusalem: Choice Perspectives and Implications for the Study of the History of the Land of Israel in the Iron Age IIA (In Hebrew with English abstract). Pp. 51-62, 46* in New Studies on Jerusalem, Vol. 10, eds. E. Baruch and A. Faust. Ramat-Gan: Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies.

2005            Philister-Keramik. Pp. 528-36 in Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Band 14, eds. G. Frantz-Szabo and U. Hellwag. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.

2005            Pilgerflasche (Pilgrims’ Flask). Pp. 563-64 in Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Band 10, 7/8. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.

2005            Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project. Jahrbuch des deutschen Evangelischen Instituts für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes 9/10: 185-86.

2006            A Philistine “Head Cup” (Rhyton) from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 335-45 in “I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times” (Ps 78:2b): Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, eds. A. M. Maeir and P. de Miroschedji. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

2007            Chapter 9: The Bone Beverage Strainers. Pp. 119-23 in The Middle Bronze IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report, eds. Y. Garfinkel and S. Cohen. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 62. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research.

2007            The Middle Bronze Age II Pottery. Pp. 242-389 in Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989-1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata in Area R, eds. A. Mazar and R. Mullins. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

2007            Ten Years of Excavations at Biblical Gat Plishtim (In Hebrew). Qadmoniot 40(133): 15-24.

2007            A New Interpretation of the Term ʿopalim (עפלים) in Light of Recent Archaeological Finds from Philistia. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32: 23-40.

2008            Aegean Feasting and Other Indo-European Elements in the Philistine Household. Pp. 347-52 in DAIS – the Aegean Feast: Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Aegean Conference, Melbourne 25-29 March, 2008, eds. L. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur and J. Crowley. Aegeaum 29. Liege: University of Liege.

2008            A Seated Figurine from Tell es-Safi/Gath: A Philistine Image of El? Pp. 627-35 in Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, eds. C. Cohen, V. Hurowitz, A. Hurvitz, Y. Muffs, B. Schwartz and J. Tigay. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

2008            Ẓafit, Tel. Pp. 2079-81 in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land 5: Supplementary Volume, ed. E. Stern. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

2008            Did the Captured Ark Afflict Philistines with E.D. Biblical Archaeology Review 34(3): 46-51.

2009            Fragments of Stone Reliefs from Bliss and Macalister’s Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath (In Hebrew with English Abstract). Eretz Israel (Ephraim Stern Volume) 28: 270-76, 291*.

2009            Hazael, Birhadad, and the Ḥrẓ. Pp. 273-77 in Exploring the Longue Durée: Essays in Honor of Lawrence E. Stager, ed. J. D. Schloen. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

2010            “And Brought in the Offerings and the Tithes and the Dedicated Things Faithfully” (II Chron 31:12): On the Meaning and Function of the Late Iron Age Judahite “Incised Handle Cooking Pot”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 130(1): 43-62.

2010            Stones, Bones, Texts and Relevance: Or How I Lost My Fear of Biblical Archaeology and Started Enjoying It. Pp. 295-303 in Historical Biblical Archaeology and the Future: The New Pragmatism, ed. T. Levy. London: Equinox.

2012            The Archaeology of Early Jerusalem: From the Late Proto-Historic Periods (ca. 5th Millennium BCE) to the End of the Bronze Age (ca. 1200 BCE). Pp. 171-87 in Unearthing Jerusalem: 150 Years of Archaeological Research in the Holy City, eds. K. Galor and G. Avni. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

2012            Chapter 1: The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project 1996-2010: Introduction, Overview and Synopsis of Results. Pp. 1-88 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. M. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012            Chapter 2A: History of Research – 1838 to 1996. Pp. 89-107 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. M. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012            Insights on the Philistine Culture and Related Issues: An Overview of 15 Years of Work at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 345-403 in The Ancient Near East in the 12th-10th Centuries BCE, Culture and History: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in the University of Haifa, 2-5 May 2010, eds. G. Galil, A. Gilboa, A. M. Maeir and D. Kahn. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 392. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

2012            Philistia and the Judean Shephelah After Hazael: The Power Play Between the Philistines, Judeans and Assyrians in the 8th Century BCE in Light of the Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 241-62 in Disaster and Relief Management – Katastrophen und ihre Bewältigung, ed. A. Berlejung. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 81. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2012            Prize Find: Horned Altar from Tell es-Safi Hints at Philistine Origins. Biblical Archaeology Review 38(1): 35.

2013            Gath. Pp. 443-51 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology, ed. D. M. Master. New York: Oxford.

2013            Gaza. Pp. 451-53 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology, ed. D. M. Master. New York: Oxford.

2013            Israel and Judah. Pp. 3523-27 in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. New York: Blackwell.

2013            Philistia Transforming: Fresh Evidence from Tell es-Sâfi/Gath on the Transformational Trajectory of the Philistine Culture. Pp. 191-242 in The Philistines and Other “Sea Peoples” in Text and Archaeology, eds. A. Killebrew and G. Lehmann. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 15. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.

2014            Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible. Pp. 2124-36 in The Jewish Study Bible, eds. A. Berlin and M. Z. Brettler. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2014            The Rephaim in Iron Age Philistia: Evidence of a Multi-Generational Family? Pp. 289-97 in “Vom Leben umfangen”: Ägypten, das Alte Testament und das Gespräch der Religionen. Gedenkschrift für Manfred Görg, eds. S. J. Wimmer and G. Gafus. Ägypten und Altes Testament 80. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

2015            The Exodus as a Mnemo-Narrative: An Archaeological Perspective. Pp. 409-19 in Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective – Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience, eds. T. E. Levy, T. Schneider and W. H. C. Propp. Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Heidelberg: Springer.

2015            A Feast in Papua New Guinea. Near Eastern Archaeology 78(1): 26-34.

2015            Many Voices Needed. Pp. 14-15 in 40 Futures: Experts Predict What’s Next for Bibilical Archaeology. Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society.

2015            Micro-Archaeological Perspectives on the Philistine Household throughout the Iron Age and Their Implications. Pp. 307-19 in Household Studies in Complex Societies. (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches, ed. M. Muller. Oriental Institute Series 10. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

2015            Philistine Foodways. Pp. 402-04 in Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, eds. K. B. Metheny and M. C. Beaudry. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2016            The Aramaean Involvement in the Southern Levant: Case Studies for Identifying the Archaeological Evidence. Pp. 79-87 in In Search of Aram and Israel: Politics, Culture and Identity, eds. O. Sergi, M. Oeming and I. J. de-Hulster. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 20. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck.

2016            Ba’al Zebub. P. 121 in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, eds. E. Orlin, L. S. Fried, J. W. Knust, M. L. Satlow and M. E. Pregill. New York: Routledge.

2016            Chapter 1: The Beth-Shean Valley: Geographical and Environmental Background. Pp. 1-11 in Excavations at Tel Rehov, 1997-2012. Vol. 1, eds. A. Mazar and N. Panitz-Cohen. Qedem Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology.

2016            How Are Sites Chosen? Pp. 26-27 in The 5 Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant, ed. C. Shafer-Elliott. Sheffield: Equinox.

2016            Medinet Habu. P. 587 in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, eds. E. Orlin, L. S. Fried, J. W. Knust, M. L. Satlow and M. E. Pregill. New York: Routledge.

2016            Pentapolis. Pp. 705-06 in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, eds. E. Orlin, L. S. Fried, J. W. Knust, M. L. Satlow and M. E. Pregill. New York: Routledge.

2016            Sea Peoples. Pp. 857-59 in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, eds. E. Orlin, L. S. Fried, J. W. Knust, M. L. Satlow and M. E. Pregill. New York: Routledge.

2016            What is Archaeology? Pp. 7-9 in The 5 Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant, ed. C. Shafer-Elliott. Sheffield: Equinox.

2016            Why not Dig the Whole Site? Pp. 32-33 in The 5 Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant, ed. C. Shafer-Elliott. Sheffield: Equinox.

2017            Assessing Jerusalem in the Middle Bronze Age: A 2017 Perspective. Pp. 64*-74* in New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region: Collected Papers, Volume XI, eds. Y. Gadot, Y. Zelinger, K. Cytryn-Silverman and J. Uziel. Jerusalem: Hebrew University.

2017            Can Material Evidence of Aramean Influences and Presence in Iron Age Judah and Israel Be Found? Pp. 53-67 in Wandering Arameans: Arameans outside Syria – Textual and Archaeological Perspectives, eds. A. Berlejung, Maeir. A. M. and A. Schuele. Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2017            Chapter 15. The Southern Kingdom of Judah: Surrounded by Enemies. Pp. 391-412 in The Bible in Archaeology and History, eds. J. Ebeling, J. E. Wright, M. Elliott and P. V. M. Flesher. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

2017            Khirbet Qeiyafa in Its Regional Context: A View from Philistine Gath. Pp. 61-71 in Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Shephelah. Papers Presented at a Colloquium of the Swiss Society for Ancient Near Eastern Studies Held at the University of Bern, September 6, 2014, eds. S. Schroer and S. Münger. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 282. Fribourg: Academic Press.

2017            Kingdoms of Israel and Judah: I. History and Archaeology. Pp. 286-91 in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume 15. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2017            Koldewey, Robert Johann. P. 449 in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume 15. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2017            Lapp, Paul Wilbert. Pp. 826-27 in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume 15. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2017            Philistine Gath After 20 Years: Regional Perspectives on the Iron Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 133-54 in The Shephelah during the Iron Age: Recent Archaeological Studies, eds. O. Lipschits and A. M. Maeir. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

2017            The Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath Archaeological Project: Overview. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 212-31.

2017            “There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart:” Reflections on “The Practice of Repairing Vessels in Ancient Egypt” (NEA 79.4 [2016]) by Julia Hsieh. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(3): 202-03.

2018            The Archaeology of the Iron Age I. Pp. 54-61 in Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament: Cultural, Social and Historical Contexts, eds. J. S. Greer, J. W. Hilber and J. H. Walton. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

2018            Integrating Micro- and Macro-Archaeology at a Multi-Period Site: Insights and Outcomes from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 35-50 in Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives: Digital Technology and Deep-Time Perspectives on Culture Change in the Middle East, eds. T. E. Levy and I. W. N. Jones. One World Archaeology. Cham: Springer.

2018            The Philistines Be Upon Thee, Samson (Jud. 16:20): Reassessing the Martial Nature of the Philistines – Archaeological Evidence vs. Ideological Image? Pp. 158-68 in Change, Continuity and Connectivity: North-Eastern Mediterranean at the Turn of the Bronze Age and in the Early Iron Age, eds. L. Niesiołowski-Spanò and M. Węcowski. Philippika 118. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2019            Burial and Worship in Tel Tzafit/Gath in the Early Iron Age: Evidence for the Diverse Sources of the Philistine Culture (In Hebrew). Pp. 99-112 in Worship and Burial in the Shfela and Negev Regions throughout the Ages. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Southern Conference, eds. D. Varga, Y. Abadi-Reiss, G. Lehmann and D. Vainstub. Beersheba: Israel Antiquities Authority and Ben-Gurion University.

2019            Iron Age I Philistines: Entangled Identities in a Transformative Period. Pp. 310-23 in The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present, eds. A. Yasur-Landau, E. H. Cline and E. Rowan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2019            Philistine and Israelite Identities: Some Comparative Thoughts. Die Welt des Orients 49(2): 151-60.

2020            Biblical Archaeology. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2020            Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview. In Tell es-Safi/Gath II: Excavations and Studies, eds. A. M. Maeir and J. Uziel. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Münster: Zaphon.

2020            A ‘Repertoire of Otherness’? Identities in Early Iron Age Philistia. Pp. 161-70 in Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine 5-8 June 2017): Volume 1. From the Prehistory of Upper Mesopotamia to the Bronze and Iron Age Societies of the Levant, ed. M. Iamoni. West & East, Monografie 2. Trieste: University of Trieste.

2020            Keys to the Past? Archaeological Correlates of Social and Cultural Memory from the Ancient Levant. In The Hunt for Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of Diana V. Edelman, eds. C. Shafer-Elliott, J. Joachimsen, E. Ben Zvi and P. A. Viviano. Sheffield: Equinox.

In press       Between Philistia, Phoenicia, and Beyond: A View from Tell es-Safi/Gath. In Fs for colleague, eds. U. Davidovich, et al. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Münster: Zaphon.

In press       Like Frogs Out of a Pond: Identity Formation in Early Iron Age Philistia and beyond. In From Nomadism to Monarchy – 30 Years Later, eds. O. Lipschits, O. Sergi and I. Koch. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

In press       Identity Creation and Resource Controlling Strategies: A Note on Edomite Ethnogenesis and Development. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

In press       Jerusalem and the West – Via Philistia: An Early Iron Age Perspective from Tell es-Safi/Gath. In Jerusalem and the West: Perspectives from Archaeology, Biblical Studies and History, ed. F. Hagemeyer. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

In press       The Philistines and Sea Peoples in Light of the Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath. In Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Historical Books, ed. B. J. Beitzel. Bellingham, WA: Lexham.

In press       You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby! Changing Perspectives on the Philistines. In YU Conference Proceedings, ed. J. Katz. Eugine, OR: Wipf and Stock.

In press       On Defining Israel: Or, Let’s Do the Kulturkreislehre Again! Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel.

In press       Memories, Myths and Megalithics: Reconsidering the Giants of Gath. Journal of Biblical Literature.

Maeir, A. M., Ackermann, O., and Bruins, H. J.

2006            The Ecological Consequences of a Siege: A Marginal Note on Deuteronomy 20: 19-20. Pp. 239-43 in Confronting the Past: Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of W.G. Dever, eds. S. Gitin, J. Wright and J. Dessel. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Maeir, A. M., and Bahat, D.

2004            Excavations at Kikar Safra (City Hall), Jerusalem, 1989. ʿAtiqot 47: 169-92.

Maeir, A. M., Ben-Shlomo, D., Cassuto, D., Chadwick, J. R., Davis, B., Eliyahu Behar, A., Frumin, S., Gur-Arieh, S., Hitchcock, L. A., Horwitz, L. K., Manclossi, F., Rosen, S., Verduci, J., Welch, E. L., Weiss, E., and Workman, V.

2019            Technological Insights on Philistine Culture: Perspectives from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 7(1): 76-118.

Maeir, A. M., and Berlejung, A.

2019            Preface. Pp. IX-XI in Research on Israel and Aram: Autonomy, Interdependence and Related Issues. Proceedings of the First Annual RIAB Center Conference, Leipzig, June 2016, eds. A. Berlejung and A. M. Maeir. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB), Vol. 1. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Maeir, A. M., and Boas, A. J.

1998            Archaeology in Israel: Tell e-Safi. American Journal of Archaeology 102: 785-86.

Maeir, A. M., and Chadwick, J. R.

In press       The Blanche Garde Fortress at Tell es-Safi/Gath: An Update on Recent Excavation Results. In Exploring Outremer Volume II: Studies in Crusader Archaeology in Honour of Adrian J. Boas, eds. R. G. Khamisy, R. Lewis and V. R. Shotten-Hallel. Crusades Subsidia. London: Taylor & Francis.

Maeir, A. M., Chadwick, J. R., Dagan, A., Katz, J., Shai, I., and Uziel, J.

2019            The Late Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath and the Site’s Role in Southwestern Canaan. Pp. 1-18 in The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan, eds. A. M. Maeir, I. Shai and C. McKinny. Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds 2. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Maeir, A. M., Davis, B., and Hitchcock, L. A.

2016            Philistine Names and Terms Once Again: A Recent Perspective. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage 4(4): 321-40.

Maeir, A. M., Davis, B., Horwitz, L. K., Asscher, Y., and Hitchcock, L. A.

2015            An Ivory Bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel) – Manufacture, Meaning and Memory. World Archaeology 47: 414-38.

Maeir, A. M., and Ehrlich, C.

2000            Tel Zafit – 1999. Hadashot Archeologiot 112: 121-22, 96*-97*.

2001            Excavating Philistine Gath: Have We Found Goliath’s Hometown? Biblical Archaeology Review 27(6): 22-31.

Maeir, A. M., and Eshel, E.

2014            Four short alphabetic inscriptions from Iron Age IIA Tell es-Safi/Gath and their contribution for understanding the process of the development of literacy in Iron Age Philistia. Pp. 69-88 in “See, I Will Bring a Scroll Recounting What Befell Me” (Ps 40:8): Epigraphy and Daily Life – From the Bible to the Talmud Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Hanan Eshel, eds. E. Eshel and Y. Levin. Journal of Ancient Judaism, Supplements, Band 12. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Maeir, A. M., and Dayagi-Mendels, M.

2007            An Elaborately Decorated Clay Model Shrine from the Moussaeiff Collection. Pp. 111-23 in Bilder als Quellen/Images as Sources: Studies on Ancient Near Eastern Artefacts and the Bible Inspired by the Work of Othmar Keel, eds. S. Bickel, S. Schroer, R. Schurte and C. Uehlinger. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Sonderbar I. Fribourg: Fribourg Academic Press.

Maeir, A. M., Fantalkin, A., and Zukerman, A.

2009            The Earliest Greek Import to the Iron Age Levant: New Evidence from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Ancient West and East 8: 57-80.

Maeir, A. M., and Garfinkel, Y.

1992            Bone and Metal Straw-Tip Beer-Strainers from the Ancient Near East. Levant 24: 218-23.

Maeir, A. M., Greenfield, H., Lev-Tov, J., and Horwitz, L. K.

2009            Macro- and Microscopic Aspects of Bone Tool Manufacture and Technology in the Levantine Iron Age:  A 9th Century BCE Workshop from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Pp. 41-68 in Techniques and People: Anthropological Perspectives on Technology in the Archaeology of the Proto-Historic and Early Historic Periods in the Southern Levant, eds. S. A. Rosen and V. Roux. Memoires et travaux du Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem: Archéologie et Sciences de l’Antiquité et du Moyen-Âge 9. Paris: De Boccard.

Maeir, A. M., and Gur-Arieh, S.

2011            Comparative aspects of the Aramean Siege System at Tell eṣ-Ṣāfi/Gath. Pp. 227-44 in The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin, eds. I. Finkelstein and N. Na’aman. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Maeir, A. M., and Hitchcock, L. A.

2011            Absence Makes the Hearth Grow Fonder: Searching for the Origins of the Philistine Hearth. Eretz Israel (A. Ben-Tor Volume) 30: 46*-64*.

2016            “And the Canaanite Was Then in the Land”? A Critical View on the “Canaanite Enclave” in Iron I Southern Canaan. Pp. 209-26 in Alphabets, Texts and Artefacts in the Ancient Near East: Studies Presented to Benjamin Sass, eds. I. Finkelstein, C. Robin and T. Römer. Paris: Van Dieren.

2017            The Appearance, Formation and Transformation of Philistine Culture: New Perspectives and New Finds. Pp. 149-62 in The Sea Peoples Up-To-Date: New Research on the Migration of Peoples in the 12th Century BCE, eds. P. Fischer and T. Bürge. Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie 81, Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 35. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.

2017            Rethinking the Philistines: A 2017 Perspective. Pp. 249-67 in Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Honor of Israel Finkelstein, eds. O. Lipschits, Y. Gadot and M. J. Adams. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Maeir, A. M., Hitchcock, L. A., and Horwitz, L. K.

2013            On the Constitution and Transformation of Philistine Identity. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 32(1): 1-38.

Maeir, A. M., and Horwitz, L. K.

2015            The Archaeological Evidence of the Prohibition of Eating Pig in the Land of Israel (In Hebrew). Et Miqra.

Maeir, A. M., and Lipschits, O.

2017            Introduction. Pp. vii-x in The Shephelah during the Iron Age: Recent Archaeological Studies, eds. O. Lipschits and A. M. Maeir. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Maeir, A. M., Martin, M., and Wimmer, S. J.

2005            An Incised Hieratic Inscription from Tell es-Safi, Israel. Egypt and the Levant 14: 125-34.

Maeir, A. M., and Mullins, R. A.

2012            The Tell el-Yahudiya Ware from Tel Beth-Shean. Pp. 577-89 in The Classification and Chronology of Tell el-Yahudiya Ware, eds. D. A. Aston and M. Bietak. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie 66. Untersuchungen der Zweigstelle Kairo des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 12. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Maeir, A. M., and Ponting, M.

1996            An Archaeological and Archaeometallurgical Study of a Late Byzantine/Early Arab Weapons Hoard from Mamilla, Jerusalem. Pp. 45*-52* in New Studies on Jerusalem: Proceedings of the Second Conference, ed. A. Faust. Ramat-Gan: Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies.

2000            ’The Cutting Edge’: Symbolism, Technology, and Typology of a New Kingdom Axe. Mittielungen des deutsches Archäologisches Instituts Kairo 56: 267-76.

Maeir, A. M., 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.

2007            An Iron Age IIA Phoenician-Style (?) Fluted Bowl from Tell es-Safi/Gath: A Ceramic Imitation of a Metal Prototype. Journal of the Serbian Archaeological Society 23: 219-26.

2015            The Origins of the “Late Philistine Decorated Ware”: A Note. Tel Aviv 42(1): 59-66.

2016            Reassessing the Character of the Judahite Kingdom: Archaeological Evidence for Non-Centralized, Kinship-Based Components. Pp. 323-40 in From Sha‘Ar Hagolan to Shaaraim: Essays in Honor of Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, eds. S. Ganor, I. Kreimerman, K. Streit and M. Mumcouglu. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Maeir, A. M., Shai, I., and Horwitz, L. K.

2011            “Like a Lion in Cover”: An Early Bronze Age Decorated Cylinder Seal from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Israel Exploration Journal 61(1): 12-31.

Maeir, A. M., Shai, I., Uziel, J., Gadot, Y., and Chadwick, J. R.

2012            A Late Bronze Age Biconical Jar with a Depiction of a Scorpion from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Pp. 249-64 in All the Wisdom of the East: Studies in Near Eastern Archaeology and History in Honor of Eliezer D. Oren, eds. M. Gruber, S. Ahituv, G. Lehmann and Z. Talshir. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 255. Fribourg: Fribourg Academic Press.

Maeir, A. M., and Strauss, Y.

1995            A Pilgrim Flask of Anatolian Origin from Late Byzantine/Early Ummayyad Jerusalem. Anatolian Studies 45: 237-41.

Maeir, A. M., and Uziel, J.

2007            A Tale of Two Tells: A Comparative Perspective on Tel Miqne-Ekron and Tell es-Sâfi/Gath in Light of Recent Archaeological Research. Pp. 29-42 in Up to the Gates of Ekron”: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin, eds. S. Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar and J. Aviram. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Maeir, A. M., Welch, E. L., and Eniukhina, M.

In press       A Note on Olive Oil Production in Iron Age Philistia: Pressing the Consensus. Palestine Exploration Quarterly.

Maeir, A. M., Wimmer, S. J., Zukerman, A., and Demsky, A.

2008            A Late Iron Age I/Early Iron Age IIA Old Canaanite Inscription from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath, Israel: Palaeography, Dating, and Historical-Cultural Significance. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 351: 39-71.

Maeir, A. M., and Yellin, J.

2007            Chapter 6B: Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Selected Pottery from Tel Beth Shean and the Central Jordan Valley. Pp. 554-71 in Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989-1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata in Area R, eds. A. Mazar and R. Mullins. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Maeir, A. M., Yellin, J., and Goren, Y.

1992            A Re-Evaluation of the Red and Black Bowl from Parker’s Excavations in Jerusalem. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 11(1 March): 39-53.

Maeir, A. M., and Zukerman, A.

2012            Appendix A: Methodology of Excavation, Recording, and Processing of the Finds. In Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Meiri, M., Huchon, D., Bar-Oz, G., Boaretto, E., Kolska Horwitz, L., Maeir, A. M., Sapir-Hen, L., Larson, G., Weiner, S., and Finkelstein, I.

2013            Ancient DNA and Population Turnover in Southern Levantine Pigs- Signature of the Sea Peoples Migration? Scientific Reports 3: 3035 | DOI: 10.1038/srep03035.

Namdar, D., Zukerman, A., Maeir, A. M., Katz, J. C., Cabanes, D., Trueman, C., Shahack-Gross, R., and Weiner, S.

2011            The 9th Century BCE Destruction Layer at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Integrating Macro- and Microarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(12): 3471-82.

Olsvig-Whittaker, L., Maeir, A. M., Weiss, E., Frumin, S., Ackermann, O., and Horwitz, L. K.

2015            Ecology of the Past – Late Bronze and Iron Age Landscapes, People and Climate Change in Philistia (the Southern Coastal Plain and Shephelah), Israel. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 13: 57-75.

Regev, L., Zukerman, A., Hitchcock, L., Maeir, A. M., Weiner, S., and Boaretto, E.

2010            Iron Age Hydraulic Plaster from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 37(12): 3000-09.

Richardson, S., Greenfield, H. J., Greenfield, T. L., and Maeir, A. M.

In press       Beyond Subsistence: Spatial Analysis of the Worked Bone from an Early Urban (Early Bronze Age III/Stratum E5c) Domestic Building in a Residential Neighborhood House at Tell Eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. In Proceedings of the Worked Bone Research Group Conference in Montreal, Oct. 2019.

Ross, J., Fowler, K., Greenfield, H. J., and Maeir, A. M.

2020            The Chaîne Opératoire: Past, Present and Future. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 35/1.

Ross, J., Fowler, K., Shai, I., Greenfield, H. J., and Maeir, A. M.

2018            A Scanning Method for the Identification of Pottery Forming Techniques at the Mesoscopic Scale: A Pilot Study in the Manufacture of Early Bronze Age III Holemouth Jars and Platters from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 18: 551-61.

Safrai, Z., and Maeir, A. M.

2003            ‘An Epistle Came from the West’: Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the Ties between the Jewish Communities in the Land of Israel and Babylonia During the Talmudic Period. Jewish Quarterly Review 93(3-4): 497-531.

Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

2003            The Pre-LMLK Jars: A New Class of Iron Age IIA Storage Jars. Tel Aviv 30: 108-23.

2008            The Iron Age IIA Pottery Assemblage at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 419-28 in The Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near, 29 March – 3 April 2004, Freie Universität Berlin, Volume II. East Social and Cultural Transformation. The Archaeology of Transitional Periods and Dark Ages. Excavation Reports, eds. H. Kuehne, R. Czichon and F. Kreppner. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012            Chapter 14: The Iron Age IIA Pottery Assemblage from Stratum A3. Pp. 313-63 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, A. M. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2018            Reassessing the Character of the Judahite Centralized Kingdom: An Updated Archaeological View (In Hebrew with English abstract). In the Highlands Depth 8: 29-45, 45*.

Shai, I., Ben-Shlomo, D., and Maeir, A. M.

2008            The Philistine Material Culture in Process: The Late Philistine Decorated Ware (“Ashdod Ware”) as a Case Study of Cultural Transformation. Pp. 235-44 in The Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near, 29 March – 3 April 2004, Freie Universität Berlin, Volume II. East Social and Cultural Transformation: The Archaeology of Transitional Periods and Dark Ages. Excavation Reports, eds. H. Kuehne, R. Czichon and F. Kreppner. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012            Late Iron Age Judean Cooking Pots with Impressed Handles: A New Class of Stamped Impressions from the Kingdom of Judah. Pp. 225-44 in ‘Go Out and Study the Land’ (Judges 18:2): Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel, eds. A. M. Maeir, J. Magness and L. H. Schiffman. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 148. Leiden: Brill.

Shai, I., Chadwick, J. R., Welch, E., Katz, J., Greenfield, H., and Maeir, A. M.

2016            The Early Bronze Age Fortifications at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 148(1): 42-58.

Shai, I., Greenfield, H. J., Brown, A., Albaz, S., and Maeir, A. M.

2016            The Importance of the Donkey as a Pack Animal in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant: A View from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina Vereins 132(1): 1-25.

Shai, I., Greenfield, H. J., Eliyahu-Behar, A., Regev, J., Boaretto, E., and Maeir, A. M.

2014            The Early Bronze Age Remains at Tell eṣ-Ṣāfi/Gath, Israel: An Interim Report. Tel Aviv 41(1): 20-49.

Shai, I., Greenfield, H. G., Greenfield, T., Arnold, E., Albaz, S., and Maeir, A.

2017            The Importance of the Donkey in the Early Bronze Age in Light of the Excavations at Tel Zafit (In Hebrew). Qadmoniot 154: 88-91.

Shai, I., Ilan, D., Maeir, A. M., and Uziel, J.

2011            The Iron Age Remains at Tel Nagila. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 363: 25-43.

Shai, I., Maeir, A. M., Uziel, J., and Gadot, Y.

2011            Differentiating Public Buildings from Residencies: A Case Study from Late Bronze Age II Tell es-Safi/Gath. Pp. 107-31 in Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond, eds. A. Yasur-Landau, J. R. Ebeling and L. B. Mazow. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 50. Leiden: Brill.

Shai, I., Uziel, J., Chadwick, J. R., and Maeir, A. M.

2017            The Late Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 80(4): 292-95.

Shai, I., Uziel, J., and Maeir, A. M.

2012            Chapter 10: The Architecture and Stratigraphy of Area E: Strata E1-E5. Pp. 221-33 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2020            The Late Bronze Age Remains in Area E: Final Report. The Late Bronze Age Stratigraphy and Architecture. Pp. 377-96 in Tell es-Safi/Gath II: Excavations and Studies, eds. A. M. Maeir and J. Uziel. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Münster: Zaphon.

Toffolo, M., Maeir, A. M., Chadwick, J. R., and Boaretto, E.

2012            Characterization of Contexts for Radiocarbon Dating: Results from the Early Iron Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Radiocarbon 54(3-4): 371-90.

Uziel, J., Ben-Shlomo, D., Ilan, D., Shai, I., and Maeir, A. M.

2009            Middle Bronze Age II Pottery Production in the Western Shephelah: Comparing Methods from Tel Nagila, Tell es-Safi/Gath, and Tel Burna. Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 25: 141-62.

Uziel, J., and Maeir, A. M.

2005            Scratching the Surface at Gath: Implications of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Surface Survey. Tel Aviv 32(1): 50-75.

2012            Chapter 11: The Early Bronze Age Pottery from Area E. Pp. 235-40 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012            Chapter 8: The Location, Size and Periods Settlement at Tell es-Safi/Gath: The Surface Survey Results. Pp. 173-81 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2018            Philistine Burial Customs in Light of the Finds from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 81(4): 19-21.

2018            The Survey of the Site and Its Insights. Near Eastern Archaeology 81(1): 4-5.

2020            The Excavations in Cave T1, Area T. In Tell es-Safi/Gath II: Excavations and Studies, eds. A. M. Maeir and J. Uziel. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Münster: Zaphon.

Welch, E. L., Chadwick, J. R., Shai, I., Katz, J., Greenfield, H., Dagan, A., and Maeir, A. M.

2019            “The Limits of the Ancient City”: The Fortifications of Tell es-Safi/Gath 115 Years after Bliss and Macalister. Pp. 151-66 in Exploring the Holy Land: 150 Years of the Palestine Exploration Fund, eds. D. Gurevich and A. Kidron. London: Equinox.

Wimmer, S. J., and Maeir, A. M.

2007            The Prince of Safit: A Late Bronze Age Hieratic Inscription from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath. Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 123(1): 37-48.

Workman, V., Maeir, A. M., Dagan, A., Regev, J., Boaretto, E., and Eliyahu-Behar, A.

2020            Metalworking in the Lower City of Tell es-Safi/Gath: A Preliminary Study of an Iron IIA Iron and Bronze Workshop. Tel Aviv 47(2): 207-34.

Workman, V., Maeir, A. M., and Eliyahu-Behar, A.

In press       In Search of the Invisible Furnace: An Experimental Perspective on Early Levantine Iron Production. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Yellin, J., and Maeir, A. M.

1992            The Origin of the Pictorial Krater from the ‘Mycenaean’ Tomb at Tel Dan. Archaeometry 34(1): 31-36.

2008            Four Decades of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis and Its Contribution to the Archaeology of the Ancient Land of Israel. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 56(1-2): 123-32.

Zukerman, A., Horwitz, L. K., Lev-Tov, J., Greenfield, H., and Maeir, A. M.

2012            Chapter 23: Further Insights on the Notched Scapulae from Stratum A3. Pp. 509-30 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Zukerman, A., Horwitz, L. K., Lev-Tov, J. E., and Maeir, A. M.

2007            A Bone of Contention? Iron Age IIA Notched Scapulae from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 347: 57-81.

Zukerman, A., and Maeir, A. M.

2012            Chapter 9: The Stratigraphy and Architecture of Area A (Strata A5-A1). Pp. 183-220 in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996-2005 Seasons, ed. A. Maeir. Ägypten und Altes Testament 69. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.