Tel Yavne, Areas G5 and G7

In June 2020 – November 2021, a salvage excavation was conducted in Areas G5 and G7 on the southeastern fringes of Tel Yavne (Permit No. A-8656; map ref. 176299–379/641398–543; Fig. 1), as part of a large-scale excavation project in the east of Yavne, prior to the development of new residential neighborhoods. The excavation, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by the Israel Lands Authority, was directed by E. Haddad, L. Nadav-Ziv and J. Seligman, with the assistance of A. Nagorsky (senior area supervisor), N. Zeitoune, N. Shahar, E. Ben Porat, B. Yuzefovsky and A. Reiss (area supervision), Y. Amrani, Z. Lotan, T. Uriel and R. Abu Halaf (administration), T. Harpak (recording and processing of finds) , M. Kahan, Y. Shmidov and S. Emmanuilov (surveying and drafting, aerial photography and photogrammetry), Y. Gumenny (plans processing and photogrammetry), A. Peretz and D. Gazit (field and aerial photography), I. Jonish (aerial photography and photogrammetry), S. Krispin, A. Tamir and E. Valdman (metal detection), A. Keinan and E. Oren (safety), O. Tsuf (Roman–Early Islamic pottery), S. Terem (Ottoman and British Mandate-period pottery), Y. Gorin-Rosen and R. Lewis-Bloom (glass), L. Perry Gal (archaeozoology), M. Ratner, R. Shoef, M. Avrahami and Y. Tirosh Hacohen (conservation), Y. Nagar (physical anthropology) and Y. Asscher and Y. Sheizaf (analytical laboratory).