Tali Erickson-Gini
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 981281 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tali Erickson-Gini |
| PRENOMES | Tali |
| SOBRENOME | Erickson-Gini |
| ASSINATURA | ERICKSON-GINI T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Israel Antiquities Authority |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2902-3831 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A Roman and Early Byzantine Residential Quarterat Oboda (‘Avedat)
This report presents the results of the excavation of a Roman and Early Byzantine residential quarter at Oboda (‘Avedat), offering new evidence for the occupation history of the site and challenging long-standing assumptions regarding Nabataean settlement, trade and material culture in the Negev. The excavations revealed three principal phases: Phase 1, dating from the late first century BCE–early second century CE; Phase 2, constructed after the…
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…
Ancient date palm cultivation in the southern Levant
We analysed the spatio-temporal dynamics of Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) agrobiodiversity in the Negev desert, southern Levant, from the 3rd c. bce to the 10th c. ce . We applied linear measurements and Elliptic Fourier Descriptors to 2294 archaeological seeds from nine sites, and compared them with a modern reference collection of wild and cultivated Phoenix and previously published archaeological assemblages from Egypt and Libya. Seeds from …
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…
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…
Byzantine Avdat (Oboda) and the Surrounding Agricultural System
The important site of Avdat (Oboda) is located in Israel’s Central Negev Highlands. From the early Hellenistic period, it was a Nabataean caravan station on the Petra–Gaza Incense Road. Founded in the late first millennium BCE, the town is one of six similar settlements in the region. Since the mid-twentieth century, various excavations were conducted at Avdat, most notably by A. Negev of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Hundreds of man-made c…
Funerary Artifacts from Roman Ashkelon and the Rockefeller Collections
In 2019, an excavation carried out at the site of Er-Rasm, located ca. 2 km southeast of Tel Ashkelon, revealed evidence of a cemetery of the second to mid-fourth century CE in an area that was built over by a monastic community in the fifth century CE. The finds from the cemetery, a lead coffin decorated with vine scrolls and birds in repeating panels and associated artifacts such as gold threads, are comparable to those unearthed in the same ge…
The Secret in the Desert
In the course of a salvage excavation in the centre of the Negev highlands, near Tlalim Junction and Kibbutz Tlalim, a unique burial site dated to the middle of the first millennium BCE was discovered. The site appears to be located at the head of an ancient crossroad, and it seems that for generations it was used for communal graves and associated burial rituals carried out by travellers. Dozens of burials were found in the structures, along wit…
Minimally Destructive Radiocarbon Dating of Caprine Dung
Archaeological dung pellets are time capsules of ancient herbivore diets and gut flora, informing on past agropastoral activity, ecology, and animal health. Improving multi-proxy approaches is key to maximizing this finite archaeological resource. Through experiments with standard pretreatments used in radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating, we address a fundamental problem in maximal multi-proxy analysis: How to chronometrically date individual caprine pell…
The Avdat in Late Antiquity Project
Three seasons of archaeological fieldwork by the Avdat in Late Antiquity Project have yielded new evidence of intensive Early Islamic activity in the late antique town of Avdat in Israel's Negev Highlands. This evidence has important implications for understanding the fate of such towns in the region during the Byzantine–Islamic transition
Caravanserai middens on desert roads
Long-distance trade routes criss-crossed ancient Africa and Eurasia. Archaeological research has focused on the commodities in transit and the excavation of major centres located along these routes, with less attention paid to smaller caravanserai and evidence such as rubbish middens. The 'Incense Route' linked the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, with activity peaking during the Nabataean and Roman periods. The authors pre…
Environment and horticulture in the Byzantine Negev Desert, Israel
An Architectural Survey of the “Mufti's House” in Qālūnyā/Motza
This is a report of an architectural survey of the “Mufti's House” in Motza/Qālūnyā, Israel. The data is primarily drawn from Saidel and Erickson-Gini's 2019 survey; some information is also drawn from Mashiah's fieldwork in 2010. Historical images demonstrate that this compound was standing by 1906 and that it remained in use throughout the Mandate period. This compound was built using traditional Palestinian construction methods such as those d…
From the Guest Editors
Scholars who conduct research on British Mandate Palestine have access to a variety of resources for this research, such as documents, ethnographies, films, oral histories, and photographs (Granqvist 1931; Mills 1932; Davis 2011; Matson [G. Eric and Edith] Photograph Collection1). Noticeably missing from this list is archaeology. Currently, there is not enough published archaeological data to contribute to this field of inquiry. In academia few a…
An Archaeological Survey of the Arab Village of Bureir
This report presents the results of an archaeological survey of Bureir, Israel—a village site of the Ottoman and British Mandate periods. Serious archaeological study of the 19th and 20th centuries c.e. in the Levant is still relatively new, and the intent of this survey was to provide archaeological data to use in tandem with the large amount of historical information available for this village. The survey materials yielded information about Bur…
The Avdat in Late Antiquity Project
This article reports on the 2012 and 2016 field seasons at the Nabataean-Roman hilltop town of Avdat in the central Negev highlands of Israel. The fieldwork, being carried out as part of the Avdat in Late Antiquity Project, is concerned with a multi-roomed cave and stone-built compound along the southern slope of the town, which appears to have been inhabited by the town's monastic community during late antiquity. The various finds in the compoun…
Probing the Byzantine/Early Islamic Transition in the Negev
The study presents preliminary results of the renewed excavations at Shivta in the Negev Highlands, Israel. Several trenches were excavated in public buildings, domestic structures, open areas and middens. The goal of the excavations was to fine-tune the history of the site and document changes versus continuity in the Byzantine/Early Islamic transition. Most of the excavated contexts produced material from the Byzantine period (4th–7th centuries…
The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project
In three field seasons, between 2010 and 2012, the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) conducted a diachronic archaeological survey of the northern hinterland of Petra, Jordan. While regional reconnaissance has a long history in Jordan, it has rarely been conducted with the “intensive” methodologies today characteristic of projects elsewhere, most proximately in the Mediterranean. Such an approach is ideally suited for the terri…
Piecing Together the Religion of the Nabataeans
The legacy of one ancient Arabian people, the Nabataeans, is rich in material remains: the rock-carved monuments of Petra, their delicately crafted pottery vessels, and huge desert cisterns and aqueducts, to name only a few. Unlike their neighbors to the north in ancient Judea, the Nabataeans did not leave a written history of themselves, and what is known about them is mainly derived from non-Nabataean sources: the reports of Greeks and Romans a…
A note on the excavation of an Ottoman and British Mandate period Bedouin campground at Nahal Be'erotayim West in the Negev desert, Israel
The preliminary results of excavations conducted at Nahal Be'erotayim West, an abandoned Bedouin campground in the Negev desert, Israel, indicate that multiple tents were pitched in this location in different periods and at different times of the year. The recovered artefacts and architecture provide a means to identify gender and seasonality in the archaeological record, respectively. Radiocarbon dates from an ash layer and two hearths offer evi…
Excavating the Nabataean Incense Road
Excavations conducted along the Nabataean Incense Road, which extends from Petra to Gaza, highlight the changes and development of this historic trade route over time. Long-distance trade reached its apex following the Roman annexation of Nabataea in 106 CE, followed by a marked decline during the third century CE. Seven of these key sites were conserved between 1993 and 2000, culminating in the inscription of the Nabataean Incense Road on the UN…
The Nabataeans in Focus
A number of research projects in Petra and the surrounding region have resulted in exciting new avenues of study with regard to Nabataean religion, architecture, and economy. Reports concerning eight such projects were presented at the 46th Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum on 28–30 July 2011. The resulting published volume contains preliminary reports of a major archaeological survey north of Petra and excavations in the ear…
The World of the Nabataeans
Test Excavations at Rogem Be'erotayim in Western Negev
BENJAMIN SAIDEL, TALI ERICKSON-GINI, JACOB VARDI, STEVEN A. ROSEN, EDWARD MAHER, HASKEL GREENFIELD, בנג'מין סיידל, טלי אריקסון-גיני, יעקב ורדי, סטיב רוזן, אדוארד מהר, הסקל גרינפילד, החפירות ברוג'ם בארותיים במערב הנגב / Test Excavations at Rogem Be'erotayim in Western Negev, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ו (תשס"ו, 2006), pp. 201-229
Probing the Byzantine/Early Islamic Transition in the Negev
The study presents preliminary results of the renewed excavations at Shivta in the Negev Highlands, Israel. Several trenches were excavated in public buildings, domestic structures, open areas and middens. The goal of the excavations was to fine-tune the history of the site and document changes versus continuity in the Byzantine/Early Islamic transition. Most of the excavated contexts produced material from the Byzantine period (4th–7th centuries…
The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project
In three field seasons, between 2010 and 2012, the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) conducted a diachronic archaeological survey of the northern hinterland of Petra, Jordan. While regional reconnaissance has a long history in Jordan, it has rarely been conducted with the “intensive” methodologies today characteristic of projects elsewhere, most proximately in the Mediterranean. Such an approach is ideally suited for the terri…
A note on the excavation of an Ottoman and British Mandate period Bedouin campground at Nahal Be'erotayim West in the Negev desert, Israel
The preliminary results of excavations conducted at Nahal Be'erotayim West, an abandoned Bedouin campground in the Negev desert, Israel, indicate that multiple tents were pitched in this location in different periods and at different times of the year. The recovered artefacts and architecture provide a means to identify gender and seasonality in the archaeological record, respectively. Radiocarbon dates from an ash layer and two hearths offer evi…
Excavating the Nabataean Incense Road
Excavations conducted along the Nabataean Incense Road, which extends from Petra to Gaza, highlight the changes and development of this historic trade route over time. Long-distance trade reached its apex following the Roman annexation of Nabataea in 106 CE, followed by a marked decline during the third century CE. Seven of these key sites were conserved between 1993 and 2000, culminating in the inscription of the Nabataean Incense Road on the UN…
The Avdat in Late Antiquity Project
This article reports on the 2012 and 2016 field seasons at the Nabataean-Roman hilltop town of Avdat in the central Negev highlands of Israel. The fieldwork, being carried out as part of the Avdat in Late Antiquity Project, is concerned with a multi-roomed cave and stone-built compound along the southern slope of the town, which appears to have been inhabited by the town's monastic community during late antiquity. The various finds in the compoun…
Caravanserai middens on desert roads
Long-distance trade routes criss-crossed ancient Africa and Eurasia. Archaeological research has focused on the commodities in transit and the excavation of major centres located along these routes, with less attention paid to smaller caravanserai and evidence such as rubbish middens. The 'Incense Route' linked the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, with activity peaking during the Nabataean and Roman periods. The authors pre…
The Avdat in Late Antiquity Project
Three seasons of archaeological fieldwork by the Avdat in Late Antiquity Project have yielded new evidence of intensive Early Islamic activity in the late antique town of Avdat in Israel's Negev Highlands. This evidence has important implications for understanding the fate of such towns in the region during the Byzantine–Islamic transition
Test Excavations at Rogem Be'erotayim in Western Negev
BENJAMIN SAIDEL, TALI ERICKSON-GINI, JACOB VARDI, STEVEN A. ROSEN, EDWARD MAHER, HASKEL GREENFIELD, בנג'מין סיידל, טלי אריקסון-גיני, יעקב ורדי, סטיב רוזן, אדוארד מהר, הסקל גרינפילד, החפירות ברוג'ם בארותיים במערב הנגב / Test Excavations at Rogem Be'erotayim in Western Negev, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ו (תשס"ו, 2006), pp. 201-229
The World of the Nabataeans
Excavating the Nabataean Incense Road
Excavations conducted along the Nabataean Incense Road, which extends from Petra to Gaza, highlight the changes and development of this historic trade route over time. Long-distance trade reached its apex following the Roman annexation of Nabataea in 106 CE, followed by a marked decline during the third century CE. Seven of these key sites were conserved between 1993 and 2000, culminating in the inscription of the Nabataean Incense Road on the UN…
The Nabataeans in Focus
A number of research projects in Petra and the surrounding region have resulted in exciting new avenues of study with regard to Nabataean religion, architecture, and economy. Reports concerning eight such projects were presented at the 46th Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum on 28–30 July 2011. The resulting published volume contains preliminary reports of a major archaeological survey north of Petra and excavations in the ear…
A note on the excavation of an Ottoman and British Mandate period Bedouin campground at Nahal Be'erotayim West in the Negev desert, Israel
The preliminary results of excavations conducted at Nahal Be'erotayim West, an abandoned Bedouin campground in the Negev desert, Israel, indicate that multiple tents were pitched in this location in different periods and at different times of the year. The recovered artefacts and architecture provide a means to identify gender and seasonality in the archaeological record, respectively. Radiocarbon dates from an ash layer and two hearths offer evi…
Piecing Together the Religion of the Nabataeans
The legacy of one ancient Arabian people, the Nabataeans, is rich in material remains: the rock-carved monuments of Petra, their delicately crafted pottery vessels, and huge desert cisterns and aqueducts, to name only a few. Unlike their neighbors to the north in ancient Judea, the Nabataeans did not leave a written history of themselves, and what is known about them is mainly derived from non-Nabataean sources: the reports of Greeks and Romans a…
The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project
In three field seasons, between 2010 and 2012, the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) conducted a diachronic archaeological survey of the northern hinterland of Petra, Jordan. While regional reconnaissance has a long history in Jordan, it has rarely been conducted with the “intensive” methodologies today characteristic of projects elsewhere, most proximately in the Mediterranean. Such an approach is ideally suited for the terri…
Probing the Byzantine/Early Islamic Transition in the Negev
The study presents preliminary results of the renewed excavations at Shivta in the Negev Highlands, Israel. Several trenches were excavated in public buildings, domestic structures, open areas and middens. The goal of the excavations was to fine-tune the history of the site and document changes versus continuity in the Byzantine/Early Islamic transition. Most of the excavated contexts produced material from the Byzantine period (4th–7th centuries…
An Archaeological Survey of the Arab Village of Bureir
This report presents the results of an archaeological survey of Bureir, Israel—a village site of the Ottoman and British Mandate periods. Serious archaeological study of the 19th and 20th centuries c.e. in the Levant is still relatively new, and the intent of this survey was to provide archaeological data to use in tandem with the large amount of historical information available for this village. The survey materials yielded information about Bur…
The Avdat in Late Antiquity Project
This article reports on the 2012 and 2016 field seasons at the Nabataean-Roman hilltop town of Avdat in the central Negev highlands of Israel. The fieldwork, being carried out as part of the Avdat in Late Antiquity Project, is concerned with a multi-roomed cave and stone-built compound along the southern slope of the town, which appears to have been inhabited by the town's monastic community during late antiquity. The various finds in the compoun…
Environment and horticulture in the Byzantine Negev Desert, Israel
An Architectural Survey of the “Mufti's House” in Qālūnyā/Motza
This is a report of an architectural survey of the “Mufti's House” in Motza/Qālūnyā, Israel. The data is primarily drawn from Saidel and Erickson-Gini's 2019 survey; some information is also drawn from Mashiah's fieldwork in 2010. Historical images demonstrate that this compound was standing by 1906 and that it remained in use throughout the Mandate period. This compound was built using traditional Palestinian construction methods such as those d…
From the Guest Editors
Scholars who conduct research on British Mandate Palestine have access to a variety of resources for this research, such as documents, ethnographies, films, oral histories, and photographs (Granqvist 1931; Mills 1932; Davis 2011; Matson [G. Eric and Edith] Photograph Collection1). Noticeably missing from this list is archaeology. Currently, there is not enough published archaeological data to contribute to this field of inquiry. In academia few a…
The Avdat in Late Antiquity Project
Three seasons of archaeological fieldwork by the Avdat in Late Antiquity Project have yielded new evidence of intensive Early Islamic activity in the late antique town of Avdat in Israel's Negev Highlands. This evidence has important implications for understanding the fate of such towns in the region during the Byzantine–Islamic transition
Caravanserai middens on desert roads
Long-distance trade routes criss-crossed ancient Africa and Eurasia. Archaeological research has focused on the commodities in transit and the excavation of major centres located along these routes, with less attention paid to smaller caravanserai and evidence such as rubbish middens. The 'Incense Route' linked the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, with activity peaking during the Nabataean and Roman periods. The authors pre…
Funerary Artifacts from Roman Ashkelon and the Rockefeller Collections
In 2019, an excavation carried out at the site of Er-Rasm, located ca. 2 km southeast of Tel Ashkelon, revealed evidence of a cemetery of the second to mid-fourth century CE in an area that was built over by a monastic community in the fifth century CE. The finds from the cemetery, a lead coffin decorated with vine scrolls and birds in repeating panels and associated artifacts such as gold threads, are comparable to those unearthed in the same ge…
The Secret in the Desert
In the course of a salvage excavation in the centre of the Negev highlands, near Tlalim Junction and Kibbutz Tlalim, a unique burial site dated to the middle of the first millennium BCE was discovered. The site appears to be located at the head of an ancient crossroad, and it seems that for generations it was used for communal graves and associated burial rituals carried out by travellers. Dozens of burials were found in the structures, along wit…
Minimally Destructive Radiocarbon Dating of Caprine Dung
Archaeological dung pellets are time capsules of ancient herbivore diets and gut flora, informing on past agropastoral activity, ecology, and animal health. Improving multi-proxy approaches is key to maximizing this finite archaeological resource. Through experiments with standard pretreatments used in radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating, we address a fundamental problem in maximal multi-proxy analysis: How to chronometrically date individual caprine pell…
Byzantine Avdat (Oboda) and the Surrounding Agricultural System
The important site of Avdat (Oboda) is located in Israel’s Central Negev Highlands. From the early Hellenistic period, it was a Nabataean caravan station on the Petra–Gaza Incense Road. Founded in the late first millennium BCE, the town is one of six similar settlements in the region. Since the mid-twentieth century, various excavations were conducted at Avdat, most notably by A. Negev of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Hundreds of man-made c…
A Roman and Early Byzantine Residential Quarterat Oboda (‘Avedat)
This report presents the results of the excavation of a Roman and Early Byzantine residential quarter at Oboda (‘Avedat), offering new evidence for the occupation history of the site and challenging long-standing assumptions regarding Nabataean settlement, trade and material culture in the Negev. The excavations revealed three principal phases: Phase 1, dating from the late first century BCE–early second century CE; Phase 2, constructed after the…
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…
Ancient date palm cultivation in the southern Levant
We analysed the spatio-temporal dynamics of Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) agrobiodiversity in the Negev desert, southern Levant, from the 3rd c. bce to the 10th c. ce . We applied linear measurements and Elliptic Fourier Descriptors to 2294 archaeological seeds from nine sites, and compared them with a modern reference collection of wild and cultivated Phoenix and previously published archaeological assemblages from Egypt and Libya. Seeds from …
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…
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…
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