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List of works by Israel Finkelstein

A Few Notes on Demographic Data From Recent Generations and Ethnoarchaeology

Algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judah's military correspondence sheds light on composition of biblical texts

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

Algorithmic handwriting analysis of the Samaria inscriptions illuminates bureaucratic apparatus in biblical Israel

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

An ancient relation between units of length and volume based on a sphere

scientific article published in 2012

Ancient DNA and population turnover in southern levantine pigs--signature of the sea peoples migration?

scientific article (publication date: 4 November 2013)

Ancient standards of volume: negevite Iron Age pottery (Israel) as a case study in 3D modeling

scientific article published in December 2006

Ancient urban ecology reconstructed from archaeozoological remains of small mammals in the Near East

scientific article

Archaeological and historical conclusions

chapter published in 2000

Archaeology and the List of Returnees in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah

scholarly article by Israel Finkelstein published in March 2008

Ashdod Revisited

scientific article published in September 2001

Bible Archaeology or Archaeology of Palestine in the Iron Age? A Rejoinder

scholarly article by Israel Finkelstein published in January 1998

Chronology Rejoinders

Chronology of an ancient water reservoir and the history of human activity in the Negev Highlands, Israel

scientific article published in 2018

Climate, settlement patterns and olive horticulture in the southern Levant during the Early Bronze and Intermediate Bronze Ages (c.3600–1950 BC)

Comment on “ 14 C Dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age Chronology, Pharaohs, and Hebrew Kings”

scientific article published on October 24, 2003

Construction and use of rock-cut cisterns: a chronological OSL approach in the arid Negev Highlands, Israel

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Crisis in motion: the final days of Iron Age I Megiddo

scientific article published on 4 September 2023

Dating archaeological sites in an arid environment: A multi-method case study in the Negev Highlands, Israel

scientific article published in September 2017

Dry Climate in the Middle Bronze I and Its Impact on Settlement Patterns in the Levant and Beyond: New Pollen Evidence

scientific article published in October 2014

Eastern Mediterranean Mobility in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages: Inferences from Ancient DNA of Pigs and Cattle

scientific article

Edom in the Iron I

Environment, subsistence strategies and settlement seasonality in the Negev Highlands (Israel) during the Bronze and Iron Ages: The palynological evidence

scientific article published in 2023

Exotic foods reveal contact between South Asia and the Near East during the second millennium BCE

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Fire and collapse: Untangling the formation of destruction layers using archaeomagnetism

First Israel, Core Israel, United (Northern) Israel

Forensic document examination and algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judahite biblical period inscriptions reveal significant literacy level

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Geoarchaeological Investigation at the Intermediate Bronze Age Negev Highlands Site of Mashabe Sade

scientific article published on 2 January 2016

Has King David's Palace in Jerusalem been Found?

article by Israel Finkelstein et al published September 2007 in Tel Aviv

Human impact around settlement sites: a phytolith and mineralogical study for assessing site boundaries, phytolith preservation, and implications for spatial reconstructions using plant remains

scientific article published in 2012

Identifying Threshing Floors in the Archaeological Record: A Test Case at Iron Age Tel Megiddo, Israel

Intermediate Bronze Age subsistence practices in the Negev Highlands, Israel: Macro- and microarchaeological results from the sites of Ein Ziq and Nahal Boqer 66

scientific article published in June 2018

Iron IIA slag-tempered pottery in the Negev Highlands, Israel

Iron smelting and smithing in major urban centers in Israel during the Iron Age

Khirbet Qeiyafa: Absolute Chronology

scientific article (publication date: June 2010)

Khirbet Qeiyafa: An Unsensational Archaeological and Historical Interpretation

scholarly article by Israel Finkelstein published in May 2012

Literacy in Judah and Israel

scientific article published in June 2021

MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING AS A TOOL FOR ENHANCING THE READING OF OSTRACA

Metalworking at Hazor: A Long-Term Perspective

scholarly article by Naama Yahalom-Mack published in January 2014

Middle Bronze Age 'Fortifications': A Reflection of Social Organization and Political Formations

Multispectral images of ostraca: acquisition and analysis

scientific article published in December 2012

Multispectral imaging reveals biblical-period inscription unnoticed for half a century

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

New light on Schumacher’s Südliches Burgtor at Megiddo

Notes on the Stratigraphy and Chronology of Iron Age Ta'anach

scholarly article by Israel Finkelstein published in September 1998

OSL Age Determination of Archaeological Stone Structures Using Trapped Aeolian Sediments: A Case Study from the Negev Highlands, Israel

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

Petrographic Investigation of the Amarna Tablets

Processes of Sedentarization and Nomadization in the History of Sinai and the Negev

RADIOCARBON-DATED DESTRUCTION LAYERS: A SKELETON FOR IRON AGE CHRONOLOGY IN THE LEVANT

Recent radiocarbon results and King Solomon

article by Israel Finkelstein & Eli Piasetzky published December 2003 in Antiquity

Social Stratification in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: An Intra-Site Investigation at Megiddo

scholarly article by Lidar Sapir-Hen published in January 2016

State Formation in Israel and Judah: A Contrast in Context, a Contrast in Trajectory

scientific article published in March 1999

Strata, Scarabs and Synchronisms: A Framework for Synchronizing Strata and Artifacts

scientific article published in 2020

Stratigraphy, Pottery and Parallels: A Reply to Bienkowski

Subsistence Patterns, Carrying Capacity and Settlement Oscillations in the Negev Highlands

Subsistence economy in the Negev Highlands: the Iron Age and the Byzantine/Early Islamic period

THE SOUTHERN STEPPE OF THE LEVANT ca. 1050–750 BCE: A FRAMEWORK FOR A TERRITORIAL HISTORY

Tel Rehov and Iron Age Chronology

Tell el-Ful Revisited: The Assyrian and Hellenistic Periods (with a New Identification)

The Archaeology and History of the Negev and Neighbouring Areas in the Third Millennium BCE: A New Paradigm

The Archaeology of the United Monarchy: an Alternative View

scholarly article by Israel Finkelstein published in January 1996

The Bible Unearthed

2001 book about the archaeology of Israel and its relationship to the origins of the Hebrew Bible

The Bible unearthed : archaeology's new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts

The Date and Origin of Black-on-Red Ware: The View from Megiddo

scholarly article

The Genesis of Moab: A Proposal

The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

The Great Temple of Early Bronze I Megiddo

scientific article published in April 2014

The Holy Land in the Tabula Peutingeriana: A Historical—Geographical Approach

The Impact of Olive Orchard Abandonment and Rehabilitation on Pollen Signature: An Experimental Approach to Evaluating Fossil Pollen Data

The Iron Age Chronology Debate: Is the Gap Narrowing?

scientific article published in March 2011

The Iron Age Gates of Megiddo: New Evidence and Updated Interpretations

scholarly article

The Iron I-IIA in the Highlands and Beyond:14C Anchors, Pottery Phases and The Shoshenq I Campaign

The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit

article

The Philistines in the Bible: A Late-Monarchic Perspective

The Pottery of Khirbet En-Nahas: A Rejoinder

The Rise of Jerusalem and Judah: the Missing Link

article published in 2001

The Rise of Jerusalem and Judah: the Missing Link

The Temple and the Town at Early Bronze Age I Megiddo: Faunal Evidence for the Emergence of Complexity

scientific article published in May 2022

The West Semitic Alphabet in the Early Iron Age

scientific article published in 2023

The historical reality behind the genealogical lists in 1 Chronicles

scholarly article

The urban ecology of Iron Age Tel Megiddo: using microvertebrate remains as ancient bio-indicators

article by Lior Weissbrod et al published January 2013 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Towards an absolute chronology for the Aegean iron age: new radiocarbon dates from Lefkandi, Kalapodi and Corinth

scientific article

Two Notes on Northern Samaria: The ‘Eeinun Pottery’ and the Date of the ‘Bull Site’

Vegetation History and Human Impact on the Environs of Tel Megiddo in the Bronze and Iron Ages: A Dendroarchaeological Analysis

scientific article published on 2 January 2019

Vegetation and Climate Changes during the Bronze and Iron Ages (∼3600–600 BCE) in the Southern Levant Based on Palynological Records

scientific article published in 2015

[De]formation of the Israelite State: A Rejoinder on Methodology

scientific article published in December 2005

Zapomenuté království: archeologie a dějiny severního Izraele

book edition published in 2016