Uri Davidovich
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 297607 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Uri Davidovich |
| PRENOMES | Uri |
| SOBRENOME | Davidovich |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIDOVICH U |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5947-1534 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Qedesh in Galilee
Tel Qedesh, identified with Qedesh in Galilee known from several biblical sources, is the largest biblical-era mound in the Upper Galilee. Despite its importance, the site has never been excavated on a large scale, and its occupational history, as well as the extent of settlement activities in the periods of occupation, remain mostly unknown. Between 2014 and 2022, a new systematic survey of the mound and its surroundings was conducted within the…
A Decorated Middle Bronze Age Reed from Wadi Murabbaʿat
Munhata Level 1
Jean Perrot’s excavation at Munhata, conducted between 1961 and 1967, uncovered seven occupational levels, the latest of which contained the remains of a small Early Bronze Age (EBA) IA (c. 3700–3400 BCE) village. These remains have never been fully published, analyzed, and interpreted against the rich archaeological dataset of the late prehistoric Jordan Valley. Utilizing the EBA pottery assemblage and architectural remains recovered by Perrot, …
Editors’ Foreword
Dina Shalem, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Uri Davidovich, Gonen Sharon, Editors’ Foreword - דבר העורכים, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ה (2025), pp. 5-6
Cenotaph Hill
Implementing lead isotopes for tracing the source of copper-coated steatite beads from the south Levantine Chalcolithic period
Death and Depths
Exploring and using remote segments of complex karst systems represents the incorporation of one of the wildest and most demanding natural environments into the cultural fabric of Neolithic-Chalcolithic village-based communities in the Levant. The unique preservation of an early fifth-millennium bce activity phase in Har Sifsof Cave in northern Israel allows for a detailed investigation of an early case of human interaction with the deep undergro…
Cultic Activities at Mitzpe Shalem, Judean Desert
Analysis of the chipped stone assemblage from the late 4th-early 3rd cult site at Mitzpe Shalem in the Judean desert, with special focus on the lithic waste, offers insight into protohistoric cult practices. Specifically, special tools—tabular scrapers—were imported from the desert periphery, incised with symbolic markings, utilized most likely as ritual butchering knives, and then either deliberately shattered or resharpened and reused. However,…
Revisiting Late Iron Age En-Gedi
The oasis of En-Gedi, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, served during the late Iron Age as a regional hub for the Judahite activity in the Judean Desert. The main Iron Age site in En-Gedi is Tel Goren, a small mound in the oasis plain, excavated in the 1960s by Benjamin Mazar and Immanuel Dunayevsky. The exposed Iron Age remains, attributed to the lowermost occupation (Stratum V), yielded substantial material assemblages associated with a thi…
A Note on Middle Chalcolithic Burial Practices Following a Survey of Bar Yochai Crevice, Upper Galilee
Micka Ullman, מיקה אולמן, ميكا أولمان, Yinon Shivtiel, ינון שבטיאל, ويانون شبتيئيل, Uri Davidovich, אורי דוידוביץ, أوري دافيدوفيتش, A Note on Middle Chalcolithic Burial Practices Following a Survey of Bar Yochai Crevice, Upper Galilee - הערה לגבי מנהגי קבורה בתקופה הכלקוליתית התיכונה לאור סקר באתר 'סדק בר יוחאי', הגליל העליון, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ד (2024), pp. 153-160
Exploring the potential of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of perennial plants from archaeological sites
Early evidence of an archaeological dyed textile using scale-insects
Spatio-temporal trends in complex caves use in the later prehistory of the southern Levant
Regionalism, social boundaries and cultural interaction in the Levantine Early Bronze Age
Ex-territorial rituals and inter-cultural encounters in the Early Bronze Age Levant
The role of marginal areas in the dynamic relations between mobile and sedentary groups in Early Bronze Age Levant is examined through the site cluster of Mitzpe Shalem. This morphologically anomalous cluster was discovered and excavated more than 50 years ago, yet its function has not been subject to rigorous archaeological analysis. A holistic reconsideration of various aspects of the site cluster, including its geographic situation, morphology…
The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judaean Desert in the Late Iron Age
This article discusses the results of the excavations conducted in the Iron II site near the En-Gedi Spring in 1961-1962 and 2019. The site, consisting of a prominent stone platform documented as early as the 19th century and other recently discovered structural remains, is interpreted as a Judahite outpost built in a strategic location within the oasis of En-Gedi. On the basis of the ceramic assemblage, it is suggested that this site was founded…
Formation processes and spatial patterning in a late prehistoric complex cave in northern Israel informed by SLAM-based LiDAR
The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab
In recent years, a well-preserved Roman-period road network was explored in southern Moab, descending the steep topographic gradient from the Moabite plateau to the south-eastern Dead Sea region. This network comprises three paved roads—Kathrabba, Kuniyeh and Zoar Ascents—installed according to Roman principles of road construction, sharing features such as minimal width of 4 m, kerbstones and retaining walls, built steps and paved sections. All …
The Canaanite City at Tel Reḥov
The article describes the development of the city throughout the Late Bronze–Iron Age I sequence. A massive Early Bronze fortification system was revealed on the slope of the upper mound. Following the end of EB III, there was an occupation gap until LB I/IIA, when a ten hectare Canaanite city was founded and became one of the largest cities in the southern Levant, identified with Reḥob, mentioned in several Late Bronze Age sources. The unusual f…
Tectonic Activity and Site-Formation Processes at Tel Reḥov
The site of Tel Reḥov is located on one of the most active tectonic fault zones in the Near East—the Western Marginal Fault of the Dead Sea Rift—and was prone to tectonic movements, which had a significant effect on site-formation processes. Geoseismic and geoarchaeological studies conducted as part of the Tel Reḥov excavation project suggest that the site was located on an uplifted tectonic block (horst) bounded by faults on the north, west, and…
Materiality of Seclusion
The monastic practice of Lenten retreats in the desert is attested in ancient Palestine by the early fifth century. However, within the large archaeological corpus of desert monasticism, sites that can be positively identified as Lenten hermitages were previously unattested. The hermitage discovered during the recent survey of the Dead Sea Escarpment is situated in a rock shelter in a narrow natural ledge, part of the high cliff towering the west…
Qedesh in the Galilee
The Early Bronze Age (ca. 3700–2500 b.c.) was an era of wide-ranging changes in the Southern and Central Levant, commonly interpreted in the context of the advent of urban structures in this region. Key elements in regional narratives of urbanization are large fortified sites viewed as regional centers, whose local history is often perceived as a paradigmatic expression of the entire process. Here we present the first stage of research at the sit…
Canaanite Reḥob
Tel Reḥov, identified with Reḥob, was one of the largest Canaanite cities in the southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age (15th–13th centuries b.c.e.). Unlike many other Canaanite settlements, the city was founded in the 15th century after a hiatus beginning in Early Bronze Age III. In this article, four major Late Bronze Age occupation strata are described. Notable is a monumental structure dated to the 14th century b.c.e. with unusual archite…
Distancing the Dead
The Late Chalcolithic of the southern Levant (ca. 4500–3800 b.c.e.) is known for its extensive use of the subterranean sphere for mortuary practices. Numerous natural and hewn caves, constituting formal extramural cemeteries, were used as secondary burial localities for multiple individuals, refecting and reaffirming social order and/or communal identity and ideology. Recently, two large complex caves located in the northern Negev Highlands, sout…
OSL dating of pre-terraced and terraced landscape
Early Bronze Age copper production systems in the northern Arabah Valley
Archaeological investigations and OSL dating of terraces at Ramat Rahel, Israel
Dating terraces, the most prominent feature of the agricultural landscape in many parts of the world, is a problem for archaeologists. This study presents an interdisciplinary approach that combines archaeological survey and excavations with direct sediment dating of terrace fill using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). The study focuses on Ramat Rahel, a multi-period site located in the southern outskirts of modern Jerusalem, Israel, where…
The Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age Transition
Dans cet article, sont revues les différentes propositions relatives à la présence du Chalcolithique récent (Ghassoulien) et à sa datation dans les grottes difficiles d’accès des reliefs du désert de Judée ; sont également étudiées les relations possibles de ces sites avec la fi n de la culture du Ghassoulien et la transition Chalcolithique-Bronze ancien. Les vestiges matériels et les données radiométriques de deux grottes, la «Cave of the Warrio…
The formation of a Mediterranean terraced landscape
In-situ dating of ancient quarries and the source of flowstone (‘calcite-alabaster’) artifacts in the southern Levant
The earliest Near Eastern wooden spinning implements
The Early Bronze IB in the Judean Desert Caves
The Late Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) is the only period in the 6th–4th millennia chronological sequence that has been discussed in relation to the Judean Desert caves since the discovery of proto-historic remains there some 60 years ago. The notion that everything that is proto-historic in the Judean Desert is Chalcolithic was influenced by the major discoveries of the Ein Gedi Shrine and the Cave of the Treasure in Nahal Mishmar, both having becom…
The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judaean Desert in the Late Iron Age
This article discusses the results of the excavations conducted in the Iron II site near the En-Gedi Spring in 1961-1962 and 2019. The site, consisting of a prominent stone platform documented as early as the 19th century and other recently discovered structural remains, is interpreted as a Judahite outpost built in a strategic location within the oasis of En-Gedi. On the basis of the ceramic assemblage, it is suggested that this site was founded…
The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab
In recent years, a well-preserved Roman-period road network was explored in southern Moab, descending the steep topographic gradient from the Moabite plateau to the south-eastern Dead Sea region. This network comprises three paved roads—Kathrabba, Kuniyeh and Zoar Ascents—installed according to Roman principles of road construction, sharing features such as minimal width of 4 m, kerbstones and retaining walls, built steps and paved sections. All …
Dating and Interpreting Desert Structures
Enclosures, single large curvilinear structures, constitute ubiquitous relics of past human societies in marginal environments. Many enclosures suffer from severe scarcity of related artefactual and ecofactual remains, allowing only tentative assessments of their date and function. A case in point comes from the J udean D esert, S outhern L evant, where several dozen enclosures were surveyed and described as C halcolithic cult sites. Using new re…
Spatio-temporal trends in complex caves use in the later prehistory of the southern Levant
Qedesh in the Galilee
The Early Bronze Age (ca. 3700–2500 b.c.) was an era of wide-ranging changes in the Southern and Central Levant, commonly interpreted in the context of the advent of urban structures in this region. Key elements in regional narratives of urbanization are large fortified sites viewed as regional centers, whose local history is often perceived as a paradigmatic expression of the entire process. Here we present the first stage of research at the sit…
OSL dating of pre-terraced and terraced landscape
Late Quaternary environmental and human Events at En Gedi, reflected by the geology and archaeology of the Moringa Cave (Dead Sea area, Israel)
The Moringa Cave within Pleistocene sediments in the En Gedi area of the Dead Sea Fault Escarpment contains a sequence of various Pleistocene lacustrine deposits associated with higher-than-today lake levels at the Dead Sea basin. In addition it contains Chalcolithic remains and 5th century BC burials attributed to the Persian period, cemented and covered by Late Holocene travertine flowstone. These deposits represent a chain of Late Pleistocene …
Sde-Eliyahu Water-Reservoir The 1955 Excavation of a Chalcolithic Site in The Central Jordan Valley
Uri Davidovich, Yosef Garfinkel, אורי דוידוביץ, יוסף גרפינקל, מאגר המים של שדה אליהו: החפירות מ-1955 של האתר הכלקוליתי במרכז עמק הירדן / Sde-Eliyahu Water-Reservoir The 1955 Excavation of a Chalcolithic Site in the Central Jordan Valley, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ז (תשס"ח / 2007), pp. 419-451
The Early Bronze IB in the Judean Desert Caves
The Late Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) is the only period in the 6th–4th millennia chronological sequence that has been discussed in relation to the Judean Desert caves since the discovery of proto-historic remains there some 60 years ago. The notion that everything that is proto-historic in the Judean Desert is Chalcolithic was influenced by the major discoveries of the Ein Gedi Shrine and the Cave of the Treasure in Nahal Mishmar, both having becom…
Archaeological investigations and OSL dating of terraces at Ramat Rahel, Israel
Dating terraces, the most prominent feature of the agricultural landscape in many parts of the world, is a problem for archaeologists. This study presents an interdisciplinary approach that combines archaeological survey and excavations with direct sediment dating of terrace fill using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). The study focuses on Ramat Rahel, a multi-period site located in the southern outskirts of modern Jerusalem, Israel, where…
Late Prehistoric Occurrences in Har Nitai and Khirbat Wadi Hamam, Northeastern Lower Galilee
Uri Davidovich, Micka Ullman, Uzi Leibner, אורי דוידוביץ', מיקה אולמן, עוזי לייבנר, מכלולים פרהיסטוריים מאוחרים בהר ניתאי ובח'רבת ואדי חמאם, צפון מזרח הגליל התחתון / Late Prehistoric Occurrences in Har Nitai and Khirbat Wadi Hamam, Northeastern Lower Galilee, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך מ"ג (2013), pp. 186-204
In-situ dating of ancient quarries and the source of flowstone (‘calcite-alabaster’) artifacts in the southern Levant
The Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age Transition
Dans cet article, sont revues les différentes propositions relatives à la présence du Chalcolithique récent (Ghassoulien) et à sa datation dans les grottes difficiles d’accès des reliefs du désert de Judée ; sont également étudiées les relations possibles de ces sites avec la fi n de la culture du Ghassoulien et la transition Chalcolithique-Bronze ancien. Les vestiges matériels et les données radiométriques de deux grottes, la «Cave of the Warrio…
Dating and Interpreting Desert Structures
Enclosures, single large curvilinear structures, constitute ubiquitous relics of past human societies in marginal environments. Many enclosures suffer from severe scarcity of related artefactual and ecofactual remains, allowing only tentative assessments of their date and function. A case in point comes from the J udean D esert, S outhern L evant, where several dozen enclosures were surveyed and described as C halcolithic cult sites. Using new re…
Personal Ornaments at the Nahal Mishmar Cave of the Treasure
A renewed study of beads and pendants from the Cave of the Treasure in Nahal Mishmar (Judean Desert, Israel) was carried out in order to enhance our understanding of south Levantine Chalcolithic personal ornaments. The analysis of raw materials, technology, and style of these items reveal possible connections going as far as Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula to the south and west, and the Indus Valley and Afghanistan to the east. These artifacts comp…
Looking at the Overlooked
A small ground stone tool assemblage was among the finds unearthed during the 1960–1962 excavations at the Cave of the Treasure in Naḥal Mishmar, ascribed by the cave's excavator, Pesach Bar-Adon, to the Chalcolithic period. Although the ground stone components were partially presented in the final publication, a comprehensive account of the finds was never completed. Here, we offer a detailed presentation of the ground stone assemblage, includin…
The Formation of Terraced Landscapes in the Judean Highlands in Israel, and its Implications for Biblical Agricultural History
The construction of terraces for dry farming constitutes a major technological innovation in the history of agriculture, allowing for the exploitation of previously uncultivated slopes and expanding the carrying capacity of the land. The terracing of the highlands of Judea and Samaria is traditionally associated with the settlement of the »Israelites«. In this article we present the results of a terrace dating project in the highlands of Jerusale…
The formation of a Mediterranean terraced landscape
Early Bronze Age copper production systems in the northern Arabah Valley
The earliest Near Eastern wooden spinning implements
Fazael 7
Shay Bar, Haggai Cohen-Klonymus, Sonia Pinsky, Guy Bar-Oz, Roni Zuckerman, Golan Shalvi, Uri Davidovich, חגי כהן-קלונימוס, סוניה פינסקי, גיא בר-עוז, רוני צוקרמן, גולן שלוי, אורי דוידוביץ', שי בר, פצאל 7: מכלול אדריכלי גדול מהכלקולית המאוחר בבקעת הירדן, חפירות 2016-2009 / Fazael 7: A Large Chalcolithic Architectural Complex in the Jordan Valley, the 2009-2016 Excavations, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כ…
On Chalcolithic maceheads and spinning implements
We are grateful to Ben-Yosefet al. (above) for their thorough critical evaluation of our recent paper. We identified a group of modified wooden shafts originating in two large complex caves with Late Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) burials in the Negev Desert (Israel) as the earliest Levantine wooden spinning implements (Langgutet al. 2016). Their detailed assessment culminated in the alternative hypothesis that the wooden objects functioned as sticks …
Distancing the Dead
The Late Chalcolithic of the southern Levant (ca. 4500–3800 b.c.e.) is known for its extensive use of the subterranean sphere for mortuary practices. Numerous natural and hewn caves, constituting formal extramural cemeteries, were used as secondary burial localities for multiple individuals, refecting and reaffirming social order and/or communal identity and ideology. Recently, two large complex caves located in the northern Negev Highlands, sout…
OSL dating of pre-terraced and terraced landscape
Canaanite Reḥob
Tel Reḥov, identified with Reḥob, was one of the largest Canaanite cities in the southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age (15th–13th centuries b.c.e.). Unlike many other Canaanite settlements, the city was founded in the 15th century after a hiatus beginning in Early Bronze Age III. In this article, four major Late Bronze Age occupation strata are described. Notable is a monumental structure dated to the 14th century b.c.e. with unusual archite…
Qedesh in the Galilee
The Early Bronze Age (ca. 3700–2500 b.c.) was an era of wide-ranging changes in the Southern and Central Levant, commonly interpreted in the context of the advent of urban structures in this region. Key elements in regional narratives of urbanization are large fortified sites viewed as regional centers, whose local history is often perceived as a paradigmatic expression of the entire process. Here we present the first stage of research at the sit…
Formation processes and spatial patterning in a late prehistoric complex cave in northern Israel informed by SLAM-based LiDAR
The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab
In recent years, a well-preserved Roman-period road network was explored in southern Moab, descending the steep topographic gradient from the Moabite plateau to the south-eastern Dead Sea region. This network comprises three paved roads—Kathrabba, Kuniyeh and Zoar Ascents—installed according to Roman principles of road construction, sharing features such as minimal width of 4 m, kerbstones and retaining walls, built steps and paved sections. All …
The Canaanite City at Tel Reḥov
The article describes the development of the city throughout the Late Bronze–Iron Age I sequence. A massive Early Bronze fortification system was revealed on the slope of the upper mound. Following the end of EB III, there was an occupation gap until LB I/IIA, when a ten hectare Canaanite city was founded and became one of the largest cities in the southern Levant, identified with Reḥob, mentioned in several Late Bronze Age sources. The unusual f…
Tectonic Activity and Site-Formation Processes at Tel Reḥov
The site of Tel Reḥov is located on one of the most active tectonic fault zones in the Near East—the Western Marginal Fault of the Dead Sea Rift—and was prone to tectonic movements, which had a significant effect on site-formation processes. Geoseismic and geoarchaeological studies conducted as part of the Tel Reḥov excavation project suggest that the site was located on an uplifted tectonic block (horst) bounded by faults on the north, west, and…
Materiality of Seclusion
The monastic practice of Lenten retreats in the desert is attested in ancient Palestine by the early fifth century. However, within the large archaeological corpus of desert monasticism, sites that can be positively identified as Lenten hermitages were previously unattested. The hermitage discovered during the recent survey of the Dead Sea Escarpment is situated in a rock shelter in a narrow natural ledge, part of the high cliff towering the west…
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