Harel Shochat

Biographic Data

ID947839
NAMEHarel Shochat
GIVEN NAMESHarel
FAMILY NAMEShochat
SIGNATURESHOCHAT H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Haifa
ORCID0009-0006-1213-3398
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Iron Age Trade in Bronze Age Scarabs at el-Ahwat, Israel

    Open AccessShirly Ben-Dor Evian, Shay Bar et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2026

    A newly discovered scarab from the 2024 excavation season at el-Ahwat features a well-known depiction of an Egyptian king on a chariot – a hallmark of Ramesside royal iconography. Similar scarabs from the Southern Levant are known from Late Bronze Age funerary contexts, but the el-Ahwat scarab was found in a secure Iron Age IB context, at a site that was not settled during the previous Late Bronze period. Therefore, this scarab, together with a p…

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

    Open AccessHarel Shochat, Ayelet GilboaARTICLETel Aviv2026References: 7

  • Researching Chalcolithic Ivories from the Southern Levant

    Harel Shochat, L K Horwitz et al.ARTICLEAtiqot2025

    The Late Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant, mainly the Ghassulian culture (mid-fifth–mid-fourth millennia BCE), heralded a new and unique trajectory in craft specialization, with ivory objects, including figurines, tools and vessels, among the outstanding ones. Hippopotamus and elephant ivory, probably of varied geographic provenience, were the raw materials employed. This paper presents two recently excavated ivory caches from the Late …

  • “Jerusalem Ivories”

    Reli Avisar, Yiftah Shalev et al.ARTICLEAtiqot2025

    This preliminary report presents an assemblage of ivory items found in the precincts of the City of David National Park in Jerusalem. Such prestigious ivory items have only been found in prominent cities, such as Late Bronze Age Megiddo and Iron Age Samaria, where they originated in buildings recognized as part of palatial complexes. These items are the first of their kind to be found in Jerusalem, revealing the wealth of Jerusalem’s elite on the…

  • 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…

  • A 7th century BCE Hacksilber hoard from Mras ed-Din

    Open AccessTzilla Eshel, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2025References: 38

    A silver hoard from Mras ed-Din in the region of Samaria is published here for the first time. Dating to the seventh century BCE, the hoard comprises six large silver cut-ingots-also known as Hacksilber. The current study includes metrological, chemical and isotopic analysis. In addition, for the first time, functional analysis has been applied to hoarded cut-silver items. Results show that the cut-ingots conform to a series of shekel-based weigh…

  • Iron Age ship cargoes from the harbour of Dor (Israel)

    Open AccessAssaf Yasur-Landau, Marko Runjajić et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025References: 23

    Connectivity and trade dominate discussions of the Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Ages, where artefacts travelled increasing distances by land and sea. Much of the evidence for the means through which such networks operated is necessarily indirect, but shipwrecks offer direct insights into the movement of goods. Here, the authors explore three Iron Age cargoes recently excavated at Tel Dor on the Carmel Coast, the first from this period found in t…

  • The Neolithic Occupations of Neve David, Mount Carmel, Israel

    Harel Shochat, R Yeshurun et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Israel Prehistoric…2019

    Harel Shochat, הראל שוחט, Reuven Yeshurun, ראובן ישורון, David E. Friesem, דוד פריזם, Daniel Kaufman, דניאל קאופמן, Naomi Porat, נעמי פורת, Arlene M. Rosen, ארלין רוזן, Dani Nadel, דני נדל, The Neolithic Occupations of Neve David, Mount Carmel, Israel - השרידים הניאוליתיים באתר נוה דוד, הכרמל, ישראל, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך מ"ט (2019), pp. 152-189

  • 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…