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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aren Maeir is an American-born Israeli archaeologist and professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. He is director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project.
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- Rapid phytolith extraction for analysis of phytolith concentrations and assemblages during an excavation: an application at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2010) (130)
- The taphonomy and preservation of wood and dung ashes found in archaeological cooking installations: case studies from Iron Age Israel (2014) (86)
- "I will speak the riddles of ancient times" : archaeological and historical studies in honor of Amihai Mazar on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (2006) (84)
- ON THE CONSTITUTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF PHILISTINE IDENTITY (2013) (76)
- Iron and bronze production in Iron Age IIA Philistia: new evidence from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2012) (71)
- Cooking Identities: Aegean-Style Cooking Jugs and Cultural Interaction in Iron Age Philistia and Neighboring Regions (2008) (63)
- Late Philistine Decorated Ware ("Ashdod Ware"): Typology, Chronology, and Production Centers (2004) (63)
- Ancient DNA and Population Turnover in Southern Levantine Pigs- Signature of the Sea Peoples Migration? (2013) (52)
- The 9th century BCE destruction layer at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: integrating macro- and microarchaeology (2011) (48)
- Scratching the Surface at Gath: Implications of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Surface Survey (2005) (44)
- THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND DATING OF AMOS VI 2: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE FROM TELL ES-SÂFÌ/GATH (2004) (40)
- Iron Age hydraulic plaster from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2010) (36)
- Pre-lmlk Jars: A New Class of Iron Age IIA Storage Jars (2003) (34)
- Characterization of Contexts for Radiocarbon Dating: Results from the Early Iron Age at Tell Es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2012) (34)
- Isotopic Evidence for Early Trade in Animals between Old Kingdom Egypt and Canaan (2016) (30)
- A Late Iron Age I/Early Iron Age II Old Canaanite Inscription from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath, Israel: Palaeography, Dating, and Historical-Cultural Significance (2008) (30)
- Formation processes in Philistine hearths from Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): An experimental approach (2012) (30)
- The Early Bronze Age Remains at Tell eṣ-Ṣāfi/Gath: An Interim Report (2014) (29)
- "Like a Lion in Cover": A Cylinder Seal from Early Bronze Age III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. (2011) (27)
- Palaeoenvironment and anthropogenic activity in the southeastern Mediterranean since the mid-Holocene: The case of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2014) (24)
- Pottery production at Tell es-Safi/Gath: a Longue Durée perspective (2009) (24)
- Yo-ho, yo-ho, a seren’s life for me! (2014) (24)
- Absence makes the hearth grow fonder: Searching for the origins of the Philistine hearth (2011) (24)
- The Rural Landscape of Ancient Israel (2003) (24)
- Isolation and Characterization of Live Yeast Cells from Ancient Vessels as a Tool in Bio-Archaeology (2019) (21)
- Radiocarbon Dating Shows an Early Appearance of Philistine Material Culture in Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistia (2015) (21)
- Studying Ancient Anthropogenic Impacts on Current Floral Biodiversity in the Southern Levant as reflected by the Philistine Migration (2015) (20)
- THE EARLIEST GREEK IMPORT IN THE IRON AGE LEVANT: NEW EVIDENCE FROM TELL (2009) (20)
- Dinner at Dan: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sacred Feasts at Iron Age II Tel Dan and Their Significance Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 66 Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xxii + 191. Hardcover. €98,00. ISBN 9789004260610. (2013) (20)
- A unique human‐made trench at Tell es‐Sâfi/Gath, Israel: Anthropogenic impact and landscape response (2005) (19)
- Neutron activation and petrographic analysis of selected Late Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2008) (19)
- Dust clouds, climate change and coins: consiliences of palaeoclimate and economy in the Late Antique southern Levant (2017) (19)
- Being an "ass": An Early Bronze Age burial of a donkey from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2013) (19)
- Sassanica Varia Palaestiniensia : A Sassanian Seal from T. Istaba, Israel, and other Sassanian objects from the southern Levant (2000) (18)
- Unique human-made catenary changes and their effect on soil and vegetation in the semi-arid Mediterranean zone: a case study on Sarcopoterium spinosum distribution near Tell eṡ-Ṡâfi/Gath, Israel☆ (2004) (18)
- The Political and Economic Status of MB II Hazor and MB II Trade: An Inter- and Intra-Regional View (2000) (18)
- Excavating philistine Gath: Have we found Goliath's hometown? (2001) (18)
- Tracking Down Cult: Production, Function and Content of Chalices in Iron Age Philistia (2014) (18)
- ONE PHILISTINE'S TRASH IS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST'S TREASURE: Feasting at Iron Age I, Tell es-Safi/Gath (2015) (17)
- The Appearance, Formation and Transformation of Philistine Culture: New Perspectives and New Finds (2017) (16)
- A Bone of Contention? Iron Age IIA Notched Scapulae from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath, Israel (2007) (14)
- The Relations between Egypt and the Southern Levant during the Late Iron Age: The Material Evidence from Egypt (2002) (14)
- Disentangling Entangled Objects: Iron Age Inscriptions from Philistia as a Reflection of Cultural Processes (2015) (14)
- Using palaeo-environmental proxies to reconstruct natural and anthropogenic controls on sedimentation rates, Tell es-Safi/Gath, eastern Mediterranean (2014) (14)
- אתא אגרתא ממערבא ("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 (2003) (13)
- "Walled up to Heaven": The Evolution of Middle Bronze Age Fortification Strategies in the Levant. Aaron A. Burke. (2009) (12)
- The Early Bronze Age Fortifications At Tell Es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2016) (12)
- Early Bronze Age Pottery Covered with Lime-Plaster: Technological Observations (2016) (12)
- An ivory bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): manufacture, meaning and memory (2015) (12)
- Differentiating Between Public And Residential Buildings: A Case Study From Late Bronze Age II Tell Eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath (2011) (11)
- Bone and Metal Straw-tip Beer-strainers from the Ancient Near East (1992) (10)
- Provisioning the Early Bronze Age City of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Isotopic Analyses of Domestic Livestock Management Patterns (2018) (10)
- In the Midst of the Jordan: The Jordan Valley During the Middle Bronze Age (Circa 2000-1500 Bce) Archaeological and Historical Correlates (2011) (10)
- 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 (2018) (10)
- 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 (2019) (10)
- Landscape Archaeology in a Dry-Stream Valley near Tell es-Sâfì/Gath (Israel): Agricultural Terraces and the Origin of Fill Deposits (2005) (10)
- Fingerprint evidence for the division of labour and learning pottery-making at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel (2020) (10)
- Excavations in Area D of the Lower City: Philistine Cultic Remains and Other Finds (2018) (10)
- The Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath Archaeological Project: Overview (2017) (10)
- The prince of safit? A late bronze age hieratic inscription from Tell eṣ-Ṣāfi/Gath (2007) (9)
- Technological Insights on Philistine Culture: Perspectives from Tell es-Safi/Gath (2019) (9)
- An Iron IIA Iron and Bronze Workshop in the Lower City of Tell es-Safi/Gath (2020) (9)
- Philistine Names and Terms Once Again: A Recent Perspective (2016) (9)
- A Pirate's Life for me: The Maritime Culture of the Sea Peoples (2016) (8)
- Preliminary Analysis of the Fauna from the Early Bronze Age III Neighbourhood at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2016) (8)
- Working Bones: A Unique Iron Age IIA Bone Workshop from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2006) (8)
- THE ORIGIN OF THE PICTORIAL KRATER FROM THE ‘MYCENAEAN’ TOMB AT TEL DAN (1992) (8)
- Faience beads from Early Bronze Age contexts at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2016) (8)
- The Chronology of the Late Bronze (LB)-Iron Age (IA) Transition in the Southern Levant: A Response to Finkelstein’s Critique (2018) (8)
- Pirates of the Crete-Aegean: Migration, Mobility, and Post-Palatial Realities at the End of the Bronze Age (2018) (8)
- In search of the invisible hearth: An experimental perspective on early Levantine iron production (2021) (8)
- Early Bronze Age pebble installations from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: evidence for their function and utilization (2017) (8)
- An Incised Hieratic Inscription from Tell es-Sâfi, Israel (2004) (8)
- The Origins of Late Philistine Decorated Ware: A Note (2015) (7)
- The Paleo-Anthropocene and the Genesis of the Current Landscape of Israel (2017) (7)
- The Iron Age Remains at Tel Nagila (2011) (7)
- A Note on Olive Oil Production in Iron Age Philistia: Pressing the consensus (2020) (7)
- Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tel Gezer, Israel: Finds from Raymond-Charles Weill's excavations in 1914 and 1921 (2004) (7)
- Provenance and exchange of basalt grinding stones of EB III Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2016) (6)
- Pollution and human mobility in the southern Levant during the Iron Age using chemical and isotopic analysis of human tooth enamel (2020) (6)
- The life-history of basalt ground stone tools from early urban domestic contexts: A chronicle from the EBA III of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (2016) (6)
- Book Review of The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster, by Ann Brysbaert (2010) (6)
- Earliest evidence for equid bit wear in the ancient Near East: The "ass" from Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel (2018) (5)
- Walled Up To Heaven! Early and Middle Bronze Age Fortifications at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2017) (5)
- Unravelling the meaning of faunal assemblages in an early urban domestic neighbourhood: (2019) (5)
- A New Interpretation of the Term opalim (see pdf for image) in the Light of Recent Archaeological Finds from Philistia (2007) (5)
- The Early Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2017) (5)
- Agricultural subsistence, land use and long-distance mobility within the Early Bronze Age southern Levant: Archaeobotanical evidence from the urban site of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath (2021) (4)
- 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 (2020) (4)
- Correction: Earliest evidence for equid bit wear in the ancient Near East: The "ass" from Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel (2018) (4)
- Exodus as a Mnemo-Narrative: An Archaeological Perspective (2015) (4)
- Household Rituals and Sacrificial Donkeys: Why Are There So Many Domestic Donkeys Buried in an Early Bronze Age Neighborhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath? (2018) (4)
- Soil and sediments as an archive of landscape history: The case study of Tell es-Safi/Gath, in the East Mediterranean (2015) (4)
- "And Brought in the Offerings and the Tithes and the Dedicated Things Faithfully" (2 Chron. 31:12): On the Meaning and Function of the Late Iron Age Judahite "Incised Handle Cooking Pots" (2010) (4)
- Israelite Religions: An Archaeological and Biblical Survey (2009) (4)
- A RE‐EVALUATION of the RED and BLACK BOWL FROM PARKER'S EXCAVATIONS IN JERUSALEM (1992) (4)
- A FEAST IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA (2015) (3)
- Reconstructing biblical military campaigns using geomagnetic field data (2022) (3)
- Nadia Abu el‐Haj.Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self‐Fashioning in Israeli Society. xi + 352 pp., illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. $20. (2004) (3)
- Four Short Alphabetic Inscriptions from Late Iron Age IIa Tell es ˙ -S ˙ afi/Gath and their Implications for the Development of Literacy in Iron Age Philistia and Environs (2014) (3)
- Remarks on a Supposed "Egyptian Residency" at Gezer (1988) (3)
- Hesperos and Phosphoros: How Research on Aegean-Eastern Interactions Can Inform Studies of the West (2017) (3)
- The Philistines be upon thee, Samson (Jud. 16:20): (2018) (3)
- Women in Distress: Victims of the Iron Age Destruction at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2018) (2)
- Can Material Evidence of Aramean Influences and Presence in Iron Age Judah and Israel be Found (2018) (2)
- “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 (2017) (2)
- Memories, Myths, and Megalithics: Reconsidering the Giants of Gath (2021) (2)
- Philistine urban form at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: a magnetometric perspective (2021) (2)
- Isolation and Characterization of Live Yeast Cells from Ancient Clay Vessels. (2020) (2)
- Philistine and Israelite Identities: Some Comparative Thoughts (2019) (2)
- Evidence for Administration and Leisure/Recreation at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2017) (2)
- Integrating Micro- and Macro-Archaeology at a Multi-period Site: Insights and Outcomes from Tell es-Safi/Gath (2018) (2)
- 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 (2019) (2)
- Late Iron Age Judean Cooking Pots with Impressed Handles: A New Class of Stamped Impressions from the Kingdom of Judah (2011) (2)
- Rethinking the Philistines: A 2017 Perspective (2017) (2)
- Hezekiah and the Assyrian Spies: Reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian Intelligence Services and Its Significance (2008) (1)
- Raw material variety and acquisition of the EB III ground stone assemblage of Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel) (2019) (1)
- A Possible Bilingual Hebrew-Egyptian. Inscription from the « Ophel » Jerusalem (1990) (1)
- “The Archaeological Picture Went Blank”: Historical Archaeology and GIS analysis of the Landscape of the Palestinian Village of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi (2018) (1)
- New Insights into the Philistines in Light of Excavations at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2018) (1)
- Two Iron Age Alphabetic Inscriptions from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel (2022) (1)
- Isolation and characterization of live yeast cells from ancient vessels as a tool in bio-archeology (2019) (1)
- Ancient Environment and Human Interaction at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2017) (1)
- The Frankish Castle of Blanche Garde and the Medieval and Modern Village of Tell es-Safi in the Light of Recent Discoveries (2009) (1)
- Lost in Translation: Settlement Organization in Postpalatial Crete, a View from the East (2017) (1)
- ‘Go Out and Study the Land’ (Judges 18:2) (2011) (1)
- Hyksos, Horses and Hippopotami: a Note (1994) (1)
- Identity Creation and Resource Controlling Strategies: Thoughts on Edomite Ethnogenesis and Development (2021) (1)
- נקודות מפתח בפעולת הפלאו-אנתרופוקן (Paleo-Anthropocene) בישראל- פעילות אנושית בעבר כמעצבת המרחב של הנוף הנוכחי (Key Points in the Paleo-Anthropocene Period in Israel: Past Human Activity as the Designer of the Present-Day Landscape) (2016) (1)
- Is biblical archaeology passé (2007) (1)
- philistines in sardinia? a critical reappraisal (1998) (1)
- Pulp Fiction: The Sea Peoples and the Study of ‘Mycenaean’ Archaeology in Philistia (2016) (1)
- A Pilgrim Flask of Anatolian Origin from Late Byzantine/Early Ummayyad Jerusalem (1995) (1)
- Hamadiya-North : A rural MB II settlement in the Bet She an valley (2000) (1)
- Judahite Gath in the Eighth Century B.C.E.: Finds in Area F from the Earthquake to the Assyrians (2018) (1)
- The Late Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2017) (1)
- Evaluating manufacture marks on ground stone objects as a new proxy for the spread of metal technology in the southern Levant (2021) (0)
- Marquet-Krause, Judith (2019) (0)
- Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (2019) (0)
- Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean: Proceedings of the International Conference at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 25th to 29th October 2008 (Book Review) (2013) (0)
- Biblical Archaeology (2020) (0)
- The Late Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath and the site’s role in Southwestern Canaan (2019) (0)
- Appendix A: List of Sites in the Jordan Valley with Middle Bronze Age Remains (2010) (0)
- Chapter 2: Regional Introduction (2010) (0)
- Of Pirates, Pigs and Philistines: A novel perspective on the Late Bronze/Iron Age Transition in the Southern Levant (2017) (0)
- JOSEPHUS AND EARLY HALAKHAH: THE EXCLUSION OF IMPURE PERSONS FROM HOLY PRECINCTS* (2011) (0)
- A Bone Projectile Point and Its Possibly Associated Workshop from the Iron Age IIA of Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath (2021) (0)
- Foreword (2019) (0)
- The Never-Ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting, by Kaori O'Connor. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 256 pp., 21 figures. Paperback. $19.95. (2018) (0)
- Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (review) (2004) (0)
- Four decades of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis and its contribution to the archaeology of the ancient land of Israel (2007) (0)
- CONTENTS 129 ORIT SHAMIR and STEVEN A. ROSEN: Early Bronze Age Textiles from the Ramon I Rock Shelter in the Central Negev (2016) (0)
- Chapter 4: Aspects of Material Culture, Trade, and Chronology (2010) (0)
- An Examination of Economic Specialization in the Early Bronze Age City of Tell es-Safi Using Isotopic Analysis of Ovicaprines (2016) (0)
- Philistine Burial Customs in Light of the Finds at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2018) (0)
- Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and gaming in a domestic neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel (2022) (0)
- New Insights into Bliss and Macalister's Excavations at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (2017) (0)
- Natural and Cultural Preservation - Complementary Endeavors through Soil Archive Research (2016) (0)
- Book Review of Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies, by Aharon Sasson (2012) (0)
- Continuous Evolvement of the “Constant” Diet of the Southern Levant of 3rd to 1st Millennia BCE: Macro-Botanical Proxies from Tell es-Safi/Gath (2022) (0)
- Magical Mystery Tour The Role of Islands in Connecting Ancient West and East (2021) (0)
- Iron Age I Philistines (2018) (0)
- The Paleo-Anthropocene in the East Mediterranean (2015) (0)
- New Perspectives on the Philistines in light of recent excavations at Tell es-Safi – biblical Gath of the Philistines (2016) (0)
- You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!: Changing Perspectives on the Philistines (2022) (0)
- Domus et Urbs: Levantine Middle Bronze Age Jar-Burials as a Family Reaction to Reurbanization (2021) (0)
- Index of Modern Authors (2011) (0)
- Sourcing Herod the Great's calcite-alabaster bathtubs by a multi-analytic approach (2022) (0)
- Israelite Religions: An Archaeological and Biblical Survey (review) (2009) (0)
- E.A. Knauf and Philippe Guillaume: A History of Biblical Israel: The Fate of the Tribes and Kingdoms from Merenptah to Bar Kochba. (Worlds of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean.) Sheffield: Equinox, 2016. ISBN 978 1 78179 142 4. (2017) (0)
- The cutting edge : symbolism, technology and typology of a New Kingdom Egyptian axe (2000) (0)
- A response to ‘On delays in the publication of excavation reports’ by P.J. Parr (PEQ 152.3, 181–83) (2021) (0)
- Publisher Correction: Sourcing Herod the Great’s calcite-alabaster bathtubs by a multi-analytic approach (2022) (0)
- The Survey of the Site and Its Insights (2018) (0)
- Study of Bead Materials and Production (2018) (0)
- Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Book Review) (2013) (0)
- All in All, It’s Just Another Stone in the Wall: From Safi to Sicily, 12th-Century Monumental Architecture in the Mediterranean (2021) (0)
- The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria (2016) (0)
- Israel and Judah (2012) (0)
- Did Captured Ark Afflict Philistines with E.D. (2008) (0)
- In Praise of Indiana Jones (2008) (0)
- TOMORROW NEVER DIES: (2019) (0)
- Book Review of Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961–1967. Vol. 6, Sites on the Edge of the Ophel, by Kay Prag (2021) (0)
- Household Rituals and Merchant Caravanners: The Phenomenon of Early Bronze Age Donkey Burials from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel (2022) (0)
- Book Review of Complex Communities: The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan (2015) (0)
- Preface (1985) (0)
- Thoughts on the Collapse: The Perspective of a Philistine (2022) (0)
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