Exploring connections: a new fieldwork collaboration at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak)

Abstract

The site of Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak) in northern Israel has long (2007), initiated by former Director of the been recognized as one of the most important Bronze Age urban centres Institute, Professor Peter Ucko, signalled in the region and has been excavated several times over the last seventy a new phase of UCL involvement in the years. The Institute of Archaeology has joined a new project of research archaeology and cultural heritage of these and excavation of the site, organized by the University of Tel Aviv. Here countries. Our present involvement at David Wengrow, the director of the UCL team, describes the 2009 season.