In October–December 2019, a trial excavation was conducted in the eastern part of Kafr Bara (Permit No. A-8596; map ref. 198009/671131; Fig. 1), prior to the expansion of the village. The excavation, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by the Ministry of Construction and Housing , was directed by A.S. Tendler and E.C.M. van den Brink, with the assistance of N. Shachar and S. Krispin (area supervising), Y. Amrani and E. Bachar (administration), Y. Shmidov, V. Essman, I. Jonish and R. Mishayev (surveying, drafting, photogrammetry and field and aerial photography), A. Peretz (field photography), A. Dagot-Ziv (map and GPS), E.J. Stern and P. Gendelman (pottery), M. Shuiskaya (pottery drawing), D. Gazit (studio photography), L. Brailovsky-Rokser, Y. Milevski and M. Shemer (flint), T. Winter (glass, see appendix), Y. Nagar (physical anthropology), A. Frumkin, M. Ullman and U. Davidovich (cave research), D. Langgut (archaeobotany) and N. Inbar (GPR survey).
Tamar Winter (Tue,) studied this question.