Ayelet Gilboa

Biographic Data

ID3584984
NAMEAyelet Gilboa
GIVEN NAMESAyelet
FAMILY NAMEGilboa
SIGNATUREGILBOA A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Haifa
ORCID0000-0002-5601-2962
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS505
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • The Colors of Power

    Golan Shalvi, Ayelet GilboaARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2026

  • The Assyrian–Egyptian–Babylonian transition in the southern Levant as seen from Megiddo

    Open AccessGolan Shalvi, Stefanos Gimatzidi et al.ARTICLELevant2026

    In the southern Levant, the stormy 7th century BCE saw the transition from Neo-Assyrian to Egyptian to Babylonian imperial control. Historical sources illuminating this process are scarce, as are high- precision archaeological data. Tel Megiddo, the site of the Assyrian provincial capital Magiddû, is one of the archaeological exceptions as it preserves a late Iron Age stratigraphic sequence. Recently published data and interpretations by the Megi…

  • Dynamics of Ivory Consumption and Exchange in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Southern Levant

    Open AccessHarel Shochat, Ayelet GilboaARTICLETel Aviv2026References: 7

  • One Thousand Years of Mediterranean Silver Trade to the Levant

    Open AccessTzilla Eshel, Yigal Erel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Research2025

    Silver exchanged by weight for its intrinsic value was the most important measure of value and means of payment in the southern Levant, starting from the Middle Bronze Age II–III through the Iron Age (~1700/1650‒600 BC). Since silver is not available locally in the Levant, its ongoing use as currency in the region triggered long-distance trade initiatives, and its availability or lack thereof had a direct impact on the economy. The continued use …

  • A thousand years of Nubian supply of sub-Saharan ivory to the Southern Levant, ca. 1600–600 BCE

    Open AccessHarel Shochat, C A Makarewicz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2025Cited by: 1References: 7

    Finely crafted ivory objects were highly valued prestige commodities in the Levant and more generally throughout the ancient Near East, wielded as symbols of authority, rulership, and participation in trans-regional trade networks. Our research aims to trace the networks and agents involved in the trade of ivory to the Southern Levant over a period of a thousand years (1600 BCE–600 BCE) by identifying its biological and geographical sources. This…

  • Dor, the Carmel Coast and the Earliest Phoenician Maritime Ventures

    Ayelet GilboaARTICLEDie Welt des Orients2024

  • Hoofprints in the sand

    Open AccessSierra Harding, Vermeersch et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2023

  • Geoarchaeology at the marine waterfront of a coastal urban center

    Open AccessRuth Shahack-Gro, Isaac Ogloblin Ramírez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023Cited by: 1References: 10

  • Between Israel and Phoenicia

    Open AccessGolan Shalvi, Ayelet GilboaARTICLETel Aviv2023Cited by: 3References: 6

    The history of Tel Shiqmona, on Israel’s Carmel coast, in the Iron Age has remained almost totally obscure since its excavation some 50 years ago. Recent analysis has revealed the site’s singularity—the only one around the Mediterranean that can be demonstrated to have produced the luxurious purple dye for half a millennium. This article is the first discussion of a central episode (three strata) in the site’s history. We argue that during the La…

  • The long 7th century BCE at Tel Shiqmona (Israel)

    Golan Shalvi, Ayelet GilboaARTICLELevant2022

    The 7th century in the southern Levant is characterized by Assyrian rule and subsequent Egyptian domination. Despite the relatively violent nature of this century, and abundant historical documentation, occupations both in the southern Levant and Lebanon are dated with low resolution. This deficiency was mainly created by a lack of destruction layers within this century, resulting in a dearth of chronological anchors for ceramic developments. At …

  • Fast Forward

    Ayelet GilboaARTICLEHebrew Bible and Ancient Israel2022

    In this paper I look at Solomon and Hiram's joint maritime ventures as narrated in the Bible from a long-term archaeological perspective. I show that the second half of the tenth century BCE indeed constitutes a watershed in the recovery of Levantine sea-borne trade after the late Bronze Age collapse, which may be understood as providing support for the Biblical texts. I argue, however, that there is no compelling reason to attribute this phenome…

  • The Southern Levantine Roots of the Phoenician Mercantile Phenomenon

    Ayelet GilboaARTICLEBulletin of the American Society…2022

    I propose here a new way to look at the process through which, following the Bronze Age collapse and culminating in the second half of the 9th century b.c.e., polities in south Lebanon became the most important Levantine commercial hubs in the Mediterranean and the main patrons of the so-called Phoenician expansion. My approach differs from others dealing with the Phoenician question in that its definitions are not projected from a yet-to-happen …

  • How is forgery of ancient silver identified? A reply to Elsayed-Ali (2021)

    Open AccessTzilla Eshel, Ayelet Gilboa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2022References: 5

  • The earliest silver currency hoards in the Southern Levant

    Open AccessTzilla Eshel, Ayelet Gilboa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2022Cited by: 5References: 13

  • From Iberia to Laurion

    Open AccessTzilla Eshel, Yigal Erel et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2022Cited by: 7References: 91

  • Regional mineralogical and technological characterization of Cypriot Iron Age pottery

    Paula Waiman-Barak, Anna Georgiadou et al.ARTICLELevant2021

    Excavations at Tel Dor, a Phoenician site on the northern coast of Israel, produced one of the most varied and best-stratified assemblages of Cypriot Iron Age ceramics ever found outside Cyprus. A long-term investigation of the nature of socio-economic liaisons between Dor and Cyprus, inter alia, by identifying through ceramic typology and petrography the specific Cypriot production centres that sent their products to Dor is currently in progress…

  • Nomads of the Mediterranean: Trade and Contact in the Bronze and Iron Ages

    Ayelet Gilboa, Assaf Yasur-LandauBOOKNomads of the Mediterranean:…2020

  • Pigments on Late Bronze Age painted Canaanite pottery at Tel Esur

    Open AccessGolan Shalvi, S Shoval et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2020References: 15

  • Debasement of silver throughout the Late Bronze – Iron Age transition in the Southern Levant

    Open AccessTzilla Eshel, Ayelet Gilboa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Cited by: 14References: 11

  • Post-charring diagenetic alteration of archaeological lentils by bacterial degradation

    Open AccessGideon Hartman, Alex Brittingham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Cited by: 5References: 9

  • Pollution and human mobility in the southern Levant during the Iron Age using chemical and isotopic analysis of human tooth enamel

    Open AccessTzilla Eshel, Naama Yahalom-Mack et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Cited by: 5References: 6

  • The Kelenderis pottery workshop(s)

    Gunnar Lehmann, Yiftah Shalev et al.ARTICLELevant2019

    During the Persian (or Achaemenid) period, simply band-painted bowls, plates, jugs, table amphorae and hydriae are documented in the Levant — in particular in the coastal regions — as one of the most common groups of decorated ceramics. Vessels of this style — mostly drinking vessels — were recorded in significant quantities at most coastal sites in southern Turkey, Syria, Israel, Cyprus, and occasionally also in Egypt. The band-painted decoratio…

  • The Pottery of Tel Esur, a Rural Canaanite Late Bronze Age Site on the Via Maris

    Golan Shalvi, Shmuel Bar et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2019

    Tel Esur is identifiable with D-f-tj (Djefty), mentioned by Thutmose III in his description of his march to Megiddo through the ʿAruna Pass. Recent excavations provide the first unequivocal indication that the site was inhabited during the Late Bronze Age as a farm/hamlet, perhaps also a waystation. The main architectural feature is a large partially-excavated structure, whose contents—mainly pottery—were well preserved by a destruction level. We…

  • The Iron Age Maritime Interface at the South Bay of Tel Dor

    Open AccessEhud Arkin Shalev, Ayelet Gilboa et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2019Cited by: 3References: 2

    The aim of the Tel Dor joint Sea and Land Project is to reassess and expand understanding of the maritime interface of Iron Age Dor. During 2016 and 2017 five features excavated under water provided new data about the development and chronology of this interface. The results support a revised dating and interpretation of previously excavated structures and the identification of several new stone‐built coastal fortification and maritime features, …

  • Elusive destructions

    Harel Shochat, Ayelet GilboaARTICLELevant2018

    Hazor, a key Iron Age II site in the southern Levant, was excavated by Yigael Yadin in the 1950s and subsequently by Amnon Ben-Tor. The Iron Age II stratigraphic sequence established proved very influential and nearly canonical; it was interpreted as representing periodic building-and-destruction cycles. The three superimposed ‘cities’ thus reconstructed were inter-alia understood to reflect alternating Israelite/Aramean domination in this confli…