Jacob Kaplan’s Excavations of Protohistoric Sites, 1950s-1980s

Avi Gopher is Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University.Ram Gophna is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University.Ruth Eyal is a research assistant at Tel Aviv University. Yitzhak Paz is a senior researcher at the Israel Antiquities Authority.

• Volume I“Preface” Avi GopherPart I: Jacob Kaplan’s Archaeological Legacy1. “Introduction” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal2. “Kaplan and the Wadi Rabah Culture: The Discovery and Search for its Sources” Ram GophnaPart II: Pottery Neolithic Sites3. “Kaplan’s Three Seasons of Excavation at Ha-Bashan Street, Tel Aviv (1950–1951)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal4.1. “The Ritter-Kaplan Excavation at Ha-Bashan (Bodenheimer) Street, Tel Aviv (1979)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal4.2 “The Archaeozoological Finds from Ha-Bashan Street, Tel Aviv (1979)” Moshe Sade5. “Kaplan’s Excavations at Lod (1951-1952)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal6.1 “The Yarmukian and Lodian/Jericho IX Excavations of the Pottery Neolithic Period at Tel Lod: Layer VI of Area C, Neve Yaraq” Eli YannaiAppendix A: List of Loci, Area CAppendix B: Area C: Count of Neolitic Sherds by Loci and Baskets6.2 “The Flint Tool Assemblage from Strata VII-V of Area C at Tel Lod (Neve Yaraq)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal7. “Kaplan’s Excavation at Wadi Rabah (1952)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal8. “Kaplan’s Excavations at Teluliyot Batasḥi (1955)” Avi Gopher and Ruth EyalAppendix: Faunal Remains from Teluliyot Batashi” Moshe SadeVolume II9. “Looking North—Kaplan’s Excavations at Kefar Gil>Adi (1957 and 1962)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal“Appendix A: Assemblages by Excavated Squares” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal“Appendix B: Archaeozoological Finds from Kefar Gil>Adi” Moshe Sade10. “Renewed Excavations at >Ein Ruweihina (>En Hashomer)—Near Kaplan’s Excavation (2003)” Ofer Marder, Dmitry Yegorov, and Howard Smithline11.1. “Hamadiya in the Central Jordan Valley: A Yarmukian Potter Neolothic Site (1964)” Yosef Gafinkel, Talia Goldman, Danny Rosenberg, Anna Eirikh-Rose, and Zinovi Matskevich11.2. “Pottery Neolitich (Yarmukian) Faunal Remains from Hamadiya” Liora Kolska HorowitzAppendix: Faunal Measurements (in mm)12. “Kaplan’s Excavation at >Ein El-Jarba (1966)” Katharina Streit, Rinat Favis, and Yosef GarfinkelPart III: Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Sites13. “Excavations at Slaughterhouse Hill (Giv>At Beit Ha-Mitbahaim), Tel Aviv (1950, 1952) and Nordau Boulevard, Tel Aviv (1950)” Ram Gophna, Yitzhak Paz, and Jacob Kaplan (with a contribution by Eliot Braun)“Appendix A: A Note on the Lithics of Slaughterhouse Hill” Avi Gopher“Appendix B: The Archaeozoological Finds from Slaughterhouse Hill” Moshe Sade14. “Jacotinsky Street (Jamassin) Excavations, Tel Aviv (1950–1951)” Jacob Kaplan, Ram Gophna, and Yitzhak Paz“Appendix A: The Lithic Assemblage from Jacotinsky Street (Jamassin)” Avi Gopher15. “The Early Bronze Age Remains from Ha-Bashan Street, Tel Aviv (1950–1951)” Ram Gophna and Yitzhak Paz16. “Excavations at Rishpon 4, Tel Aviv (1978–1990)” Ram Gophna and Yitzhak Paz“Appendix: The Lithic Assemblage of Rishpon 4” Avi Gopher17. “Early Bronze Age Remains at Teluliyot Batashi (1955): Ram Gophna and Yitzhak Paz18. “Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Groundstone Tool Assemblages from Kaplan’s Excavations in Tel Aviv” Danny Rosenberg19. “Summary: Chalcolithic Sites in the Vicinity of Tel Aviv and the Settlement System in the Western Ayalon Basin” Ram Gophna and Yitzhak Paz20. “Summary: Early Bronze Settlement in the Western Yarqon-Ayalon Basins” Yitzhak Paz and Ram GophnaPart IV: Overview21. “Discussion and Summary of J. Kaplan’s and H. Ritter-Kaplan’s Pottery Neolithic Excavations” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal“Epilogue” Avi GopherAppendix to Chapter 3: Hafirot B’Rehov Ha-Bashan, Tel Aviv