Doron Ben-Ami
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1140063 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Doron Ben-Ami |
| NOMBRES | Doron |
| APELLIDO | Ben-Ami |
| FIRMA | BEN-AMI D |
| AFILIACIONES | Israel Antiquities Authority |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7004-1284 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Knowing Nature in the City
Cities increasingly know nature through citizen‐generated data—municipal complaint hotlines, contributory biodiversity platforms and other reporting systems. These data are not neutral records of urban nature but social products, shaped by who reports, through what channels and why. Drawing on our research in two Israeli cities, we re‐frame municipal reporting systems as knowledge infrastructures that determine which encounters between urban resi…
Fortresses and frontiers
This paper evaluates the ‘En Ḥaẓeva and Tell el-Kheleifeh Iron Age fortresses within a broader chronological and historical context. Occupying strategic locations that dominated the two outlets of the Arabah Valley, the construction of the fortresses was likely driven by the wealth generated from the Arabian trade network. Their monumental scale suggests that a royal power with strong political influence over the Arabah Valley down to its souther…
Have We Ever Been Natural? Rethinking Nature Conservation in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene challenges the premise of separate natural and human spheres that underlies the human/nature dualism in conservation. Using a conceptual analysis of proposed Anthropocene starting points (golden spikes), we argue that this distinction arises from historical conceptions that produced what we term an “exhibitionary order of nature”—the 18th-19th century practices of collecting, cataloging, and displaying nature that established bas…
ʿEn Ḥaẓeva in the Arabah Valley
This paper presents the results of typological and petrographic analyses of the ceramic assemblages from ʿEn Ḥaẓeva Strata VIII and VII. The typological analysis concludes that the strata date to the late Iron Age I and early Iron Age IIA, respectively. The petrographic analysis reveals that a substantial percentage of the ceramic assemblage originated in the copper districts of the Arabah Valley. Considered together the analyses indicate that du…
The Last Gate Has Closed
Human Response to Paleo-Hydrological Fluctuations at ‘En Ḥaẓeva, Israel
The present study investigates human behaviour in response to paleo-hydrological fluctuations at the archaeological site of ‘En Ḥaẓeva, located in the arid Arabah Valley, Israel. Such hydrological changes were determined through various indicators, including the taxonomic and isotopic composition of mollusk shells, as well as sedimentological and geological observations. A survey of the vicinity indicates that the site is located along a marginal…
A Rich Person’s Problem? Socio-Ecological Analysis of Human-Wild Boar Conflict Distribution in an Urban Setting
Our study presents a comprehensive method for measuring the distribution of urban wildlife and human-wildlife conflicts based on citizen reports. We investigate the ecological and social factors affecting the distribution of synurbic wild boars ( Sus scrofa ) and related human-wildlife conflicts within Haifa, northern Israel. Using Maximum Entropy (Maxent) species distribution modeling, we analyzed 2,921 citizen reports of wild boar sightings col…
Day and Night
Like many known elite Roman houses, the Late Roman mansion discovered in the Givʿati Parking Lot excavations in Jerusalem and dated ca. 312–363 CE was primarily illuminated by sunlight. The mansion had two spacious courtyards, one of them with a peristyle, toward which the openings of most of the rooms on the first floor faced. However, those rooms and spaces located away from the ‘natural light’ sources, as well as those that had no windows, nee…
Standing at the crossroads — ‘En Ḥaẓeva in the Early Iron Age IIA
This paper presents, for the first time, an analysis of the early Iron Age IIA occupation at ‘En Ḥaẓeva. A series of radiocarbon measurements from short-lived samples obtained from the site’s earlier occupation levels (Strata VIII–VII) were all dated to the 10th century BCE. It is noteworthy, that Stratum VII occupies the second half of the 10th century BCE exclusively, with its final phase around 900 BCE. Fixing the site’s absolute chronology ha…
A Faience Head of a Bearded Male From Tel Abel Beth Maacah
A faience head depicting a bearded male was unearthed in a ninth‐century BC context at Tel Abel Beth Maacah, located on the modern Israel‐Lebanese border. During the Iron Age, the site was at the interface between the kingdoms of Israel and Aram‐Damascus and the Phoenician city‐states of Tyre and Sidon. The article discusses the object’s iconography, style, composition and manufacturing technology in comparison to other faience heads, as well as …
The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor
This article contests the interpretation of the two volute capitals discovered at Hazor in the late 1950s put forward by Kleiman (online 2021; print 2022), who viewed these monumental artworks in their secondary depositional location as silent testimony for a political shift experienced by the city in the Iron Age IIB. Unearthed in secondary use in Stratum VII and originally belonging in an earlier, 9th-century bce, context of Stratum VIII, a re-…
Middle Bronze Age Jerusalem
The following paper presents the results of radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of Middle Bronze Age (MB) contexts in Jerusalem. The dates, sampled with microarchaeology methods from three different locations along the eastern slopes of the city’s ancient core, reveal that Jerusalem was initially settled in the early phases of the period, with public architecture first appearing in the beginning of the 19th century BC and continued to develop until the 17…
Jerusalem Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Givati Parking Lot) Volume II
This volume is the second in a series of final reports presenting the results of the excavations conducted in the Givati Parking Lot, located on the eastern slope of the Tyropoeon Valley in Jerusalem. The site covers an area of c. 0.5 hectares, making it one of the largest excavations in the City of David. This second volume is comprised of three parts, and presents the remains of the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. The exposure of Byzantine…
Jerusalem Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Givati Parking Lot) Volume II: The Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods
A bazaar assemblage
The Social and Economic Complexity of Ancient Jerusalem as Seen Through Choices in Lighting Oils
This paper presents and discusses the results of residue analysis conducted on 78 ceramic lamps found in archaeological excavations in ancient Jerusalem, in an attempt to identify the types of oils used and the reasons for their preferential choice. The oil lamps chosen for the study were taken from a variety of contexts, which represent the different periods during which Jerusalem was settled and the different sectors of the city. The results of…
A New Fragment of Proto-Aeolic Capital from Jerusalem
The article deals with a fragment of a proto-aeolic capital recently found in the Givati Parking Lot excavations in the northwestern sector of the City of David, Jerusalem
Notes on the Iron IIA Settlement in Jerusalem in Light of Excavations in the Northwest of the City of David
The article deals with the Iron IIA remains unearthed in the Givati Parking Lot in the northwestern side of the City of David. This excavation contributes threefold to the understanding of the Iron IIA in Jerusalem: (1) It provides important information for the reconstruction of the ancient topography along the western side of the City of David ridge; (2) the finds from the earliest Iron Age strata illuminate the typological characteristics of th…
Hazor at the Beginning of the Iron Age
The Lower City of Jerusalem on the Eve of Its Destruction, 70 c.e
This article deals with an architectural complex dating to the Early Roman period recently unearthed in Jerusalem. The complex, which consists of a large edifice and a purification annex, featured solid dates that mark both its phase of foundation as well as its demise. Accordingly, its construction is dated to the first century c.e.; the scores of coins found buried in the destruction layer inside the building date its end to the time of the Fir…
Monolithic Pillars in Canaan
Monolithic pillars seem to be part of the landscape of Early Bronze Age Palestine and Transjordan. The MBIIC date assigned to the Gezer monoliths thus contradicts the much consistent chronology assigned to the 'monoliths phenomenon' in Canaan. This paper re-evaluates the fragmentary remains unearthed by the Hebrew Union College expedition in pockets of debris left undisturbed by Macalister next to and below the monoliths. Accordingly, the initial…
A Greek Abecedary Fragment from the City of David
This paper deals with a Greek alphabetic inscription uncovered in Jerusalem. It was found in the course of excavations carried out in the Tyropoean Valley, in the western spur of the City of David. Its stratigraphic context testifies to its dating in the Late Second Temple period. It joins other abecedaries found in various archaeological contexts and ranging in chronology from the beginning of alphabetic script to the Early Muslim period. Most s…
Early Iron Age Cult Places—New Evidence from Tel Hazor
This article discusses the early Iron Age cult place recently unearthed in the upper city of Tel Hazor. When analyzed in conjunction with the cult place uncovered at the site by Yadin, a new understanding of the cult patterns of the inhabitants of 11th-century-BCE Hazor emerges. Furthermore, the analysis of these two cult places clarifies the nature of another important but disputed Iron Age I cult site attributed to the early Israelites—the Bull…
Early Iron Age Cult Places—New Evidence from Tel Hazor
This article discusses the early Iron Age cult place recently unearthed in the upper city of Tel Hazor. When analyzed in conjunction with the cult place uncovered at the site by Yadin, a new understanding of the cult patterns of the inhabitants of 11th-century-BCE Hazor emerges. Furthermore, the analysis of these two cult places clarifies the nature of another important but disputed Iron Age I cult site attributed to the early Israelites—the Bull…
The Casemate Fort at Tel Harashim in Upper Galilee
This article examines the early Iron II remains at Tel Harashim. Focusing primarily on the remnants of the fort constructed at the summit, the article maintains that the need for such a structure must be understood as a reflection of the cultural and political developments affecting northern Israel at that time. The results of the excavation at Tel Harashim, as well as of the other sites discussed here, contribute to a better understanding of the…
The Social and Economic Complexity of Ancient Jerusalem as Seen Through Choices in Lighting Oils
This paper presents and discusses the results of residue analysis conducted on 78 ceramic lamps found in archaeological excavations in ancient Jerusalem, in an attempt to identify the types of oils used and the reasons for their preferential choice. The oil lamps chosen for the study were taken from a variety of contexts, which represent the different periods during which Jerusalem was settled and the different sectors of the city. The results of…
A New Fragment of Proto-Aeolic Capital from Jerusalem
The article deals with a fragment of a proto-aeolic capital recently found in the Givati Parking Lot excavations in the northwestern sector of the City of David, Jerusalem
Notes on the Iron IIA Settlement in Jerusalem in Light of Excavations in the Northwest of the City of David
The article deals with the Iron IIA remains unearthed in the Givati Parking Lot in the northwestern side of the City of David. This excavation contributes threefold to the understanding of the Iron IIA in Jerusalem: (1) It provides important information for the reconstruction of the ancient topography along the western side of the City of David ridge; (2) the finds from the earliest Iron Age strata illuminate the typological characteristics of th…
The Casemate Fort at Tel Harashim in Upper Galilee
This article examines the early Iron II remains at Tel Harashim. Focusing primarily on the remnants of the fort constructed at the summit, the article maintains that the need for such a structure must be understood as a reflection of the cultural and political developments affecting northern Israel at that time. The results of the excavation at Tel Harashim, as well as of the other sites discussed here, contribute to a better understanding of the…
The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor
This article contests the interpretation of the two volute capitals discovered at Hazor in the late 1950s put forward by Kleiman (online 2021; print 2022), who viewed these monumental artworks in their secondary depositional location as silent testimony for a political shift experienced by the city in the Iron Age IIB. Unearthed in secondary use in Stratum VII and originally belonging in an earlier, 9th-century bce, context of Stratum VIII, a re-…
Middle Bronze Age Jerusalem
The following paper presents the results of radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of Middle Bronze Age (MB) contexts in Jerusalem. The dates, sampled with microarchaeology methods from three different locations along the eastern slopes of the city’s ancient core, reveal that Jerusalem was initially settled in the early phases of the period, with public architecture first appearing in the beginning of the 19th century BC and continued to develop until the 17…
A bazaar assemblage
Early Iron Age Cult Places—New Evidence from Tel Hazor
This article discusses the early Iron Age cult place recently unearthed in the upper city of Tel Hazor. When analyzed in conjunction with the cult place uncovered at the site by Yadin, a new understanding of the cult patterns of the inhabitants of 11th-century-BCE Hazor emerges. Furthermore, the analysis of these two cult places clarifies the nature of another important but disputed Iron Age I cult site attributed to the early Israelites—the Bull…
The Casemate Fort at Tel Harashim in Upper Galilee
This article examines the early Iron II remains at Tel Harashim. Focusing primarily on the remnants of the fort constructed at the summit, the article maintains that the need for such a structure must be understood as a reflection of the cultural and political developments affecting northern Israel at that time. The results of the excavation at Tel Harashim, as well as of the other sites discussed here, contribute to a better understanding of the…
The Casemate Fort at Tel Harashim in Upper Galilee
This article examines the early Iron II remains at Tel Harashim. Focusing primarily on the remnants of the fort constructed at the summit, the article maintains that the need for such a structure must be understood as a reflection of the cultural and political developments affecting northern Israel at that time. The results of the excavation at Tel Harashim, as well as of the other sites discussed here, contribute to a better understanding of the…
Early Iron Age Cult Places—New Evidence from Tel Hazor
This article discusses the early Iron Age cult place recently unearthed in the upper city of Tel Hazor. When analyzed in conjunction with the cult place uncovered at the site by Yadin, a new understanding of the cult patterns of the inhabitants of 11th-century-BCE Hazor emerges. Furthermore, the analysis of these two cult places clarifies the nature of another important but disputed Iron Age I cult site attributed to the early Israelites—the Bull…
Early Iron Age Cult Places—New Evidence from Tel Hazor
This article discusses the early Iron Age cult place recently unearthed in the upper city of Tel Hazor. When analyzed in conjunction with the cult place uncovered at the site by Yadin, a new understanding of the cult patterns of the inhabitants of 11th-century-BCE Hazor emerges. Furthermore, the analysis of these two cult places clarifies the nature of another important but disputed Iron Age I cult site attributed to the early Israelites—the Bull…
Monolithic Pillars in Canaan
Monolithic pillars seem to be part of the landscape of Early Bronze Age Palestine and Transjordan. The MBIIC date assigned to the Gezer monoliths thus contradicts the much consistent chronology assigned to the 'monoliths phenomenon' in Canaan. This paper re-evaluates the fragmentary remains unearthed by the Hebrew Union College expedition in pockets of debris left undisturbed by Macalister next to and below the monoliths. Accordingly, the initial…
A Greek Abecedary Fragment from the City of David
This paper deals with a Greek alphabetic inscription uncovered in Jerusalem. It was found in the course of excavations carried out in the Tyropoean Valley, in the western spur of the City of David. Its stratigraphic context testifies to its dating in the Late Second Temple period. It joins other abecedaries found in various archaeological contexts and ranging in chronology from the beginning of alphabetic script to the Early Muslim period. Most s…
The Lower City of Jerusalem on the Eve of Its Destruction, 70 c.e
This article deals with an architectural complex dating to the Early Roman period recently unearthed in Jerusalem. The complex, which consists of a large edifice and a purification annex, featured solid dates that mark both its phase of foundation as well as its demise. Accordingly, its construction is dated to the first century c.e.; the scores of coins found buried in the destruction layer inside the building date its end to the time of the Fir…
Hazor at the Beginning of the Iron Age
Notes on the Iron IIA Settlement in Jerusalem in Light of Excavations in the Northwest of the City of David
The article deals with the Iron IIA remains unearthed in the Givati Parking Lot in the northwestern side of the City of David. This excavation contributes threefold to the understanding of the Iron IIA in Jerusalem: (1) It provides important information for the reconstruction of the ancient topography along the western side of the City of David ridge; (2) the finds from the earliest Iron Age strata illuminate the typological characteristics of th…
A New Fragment of Proto-Aeolic Capital from Jerusalem
The article deals with a fragment of a proto-aeolic capital recently found in the Givati Parking Lot excavations in the northwestern sector of the City of David, Jerusalem
The Social and Economic Complexity of Ancient Jerusalem as Seen Through Choices in Lighting Oils
This paper presents and discusses the results of residue analysis conducted on 78 ceramic lamps found in archaeological excavations in ancient Jerusalem, in an attempt to identify the types of oils used and the reasons for their preferential choice. The oil lamps chosen for the study were taken from a variety of contexts, which represent the different periods during which Jerusalem was settled and the different sectors of the city. The results of…
A bazaar assemblage
Jerusalem Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Givati Parking Lot) Volume II
This volume is the second in a series of final reports presenting the results of the excavations conducted in the Givati Parking Lot, located on the eastern slope of the Tyropoeon Valley in Jerusalem. The site covers an area of c. 0.5 hectares, making it one of the largest excavations in the City of David. This second volume is comprised of three parts, and presents the remains of the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. The exposure of Byzantine…
Jerusalem Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Givati Parking Lot) Volume II: The Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods
Middle Bronze Age Jerusalem
The following paper presents the results of radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of Middle Bronze Age (MB) contexts in Jerusalem. The dates, sampled with microarchaeology methods from three different locations along the eastern slopes of the city’s ancient core, reveal that Jerusalem was initially settled in the early phases of the period, with public architecture first appearing in the beginning of the 19th century BC and continued to develop until the 17…
The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor
This article contests the interpretation of the two volute capitals discovered at Hazor in the late 1950s put forward by Kleiman (online 2021; print 2022), who viewed these monumental artworks in their secondary depositional location as silent testimony for a political shift experienced by the city in the Iron Age IIB. Unearthed in secondary use in Stratum VII and originally belonging in an earlier, 9th-century bce, context of Stratum VIII, a re-…
Standing at the crossroads — ‘En Ḥaẓeva in the Early Iron Age IIA
This paper presents, for the first time, an analysis of the early Iron Age IIA occupation at ‘En Ḥaẓeva. A series of radiocarbon measurements from short-lived samples obtained from the site’s earlier occupation levels (Strata VIII–VII) were all dated to the 10th century BCE. It is noteworthy, that Stratum VII occupies the second half of the 10th century BCE exclusively, with its final phase around 900 BCE. Fixing the site’s absolute chronology ha…
A Faience Head of a Bearded Male From Tel Abel Beth Maacah
A faience head depicting a bearded male was unearthed in a ninth‐century BC context at Tel Abel Beth Maacah, located on the modern Israel‐Lebanese border. During the Iron Age, the site was at the interface between the kingdoms of Israel and Aram‐Damascus and the Phoenician city‐states of Tyre and Sidon. The article discusses the object’s iconography, style, composition and manufacturing technology in comparison to other faience heads, as well as …
A Rich Person’s Problem? Socio-Ecological Analysis of Human-Wild Boar Conflict Distribution in an Urban Setting
Our study presents a comprehensive method for measuring the distribution of urban wildlife and human-wildlife conflicts based on citizen reports. We investigate the ecological and social factors affecting the distribution of synurbic wild boars ( Sus scrofa ) and related human-wildlife conflicts within Haifa, northern Israel. Using Maximum Entropy (Maxent) species distribution modeling, we analyzed 2,921 citizen reports of wild boar sightings col…
Day and Night
Like many known elite Roman houses, the Late Roman mansion discovered in the Givʿati Parking Lot excavations in Jerusalem and dated ca. 312–363 CE was primarily illuminated by sunlight. The mansion had two spacious courtyards, one of them with a peristyle, toward which the openings of most of the rooms on the first floor faced. However, those rooms and spaces located away from the ‘natural light’ sources, as well as those that had no windows, nee…
Knowing Nature in the City
Cities increasingly know nature through citizen‐generated data—municipal complaint hotlines, contributory biodiversity platforms and other reporting systems. These data are not neutral records of urban nature but social products, shaped by who reports, through what channels and why. Drawing on our research in two Israeli cities, we re‐frame municipal reporting systems as knowledge infrastructures that determine which encounters between urban resi…
Fortresses and frontiers
This paper evaluates the ‘En Ḥaẓeva and Tell el-Kheleifeh Iron Age fortresses within a broader chronological and historical context. Occupying strategic locations that dominated the two outlets of the Arabah Valley, the construction of the fortresses was likely driven by the wealth generated from the Arabian trade network. Their monumental scale suggests that a royal power with strong political influence over the Arabah Valley down to its souther…
Have We Ever Been Natural? Rethinking Nature Conservation in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene challenges the premise of separate natural and human spheres that underlies the human/nature dualism in conservation. Using a conceptual analysis of proposed Anthropocene starting points (golden spikes), we argue that this distinction arises from historical conceptions that produced what we term an “exhibitionary order of nature”—the 18th-19th century practices of collecting, cataloging, and displaying nature that established bas…
ʿEn Ḥaẓeva in the Arabah Valley
This paper presents the results of typological and petrographic analyses of the ceramic assemblages from ʿEn Ḥaẓeva Strata VIII and VII. The typological analysis concludes that the strata date to the late Iron Age I and early Iron Age IIA, respectively. The petrographic analysis reveals that a substantial percentage of the ceramic assemblage originated in the copper districts of the Arabah Valley. Considered together the analyses indicate that du…
The Last Gate Has Closed
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