In August–September 2017, November 2017–January 2018 and April–May 2019, a salvage excavation was conducted at the Tel Sheva‘ Educational Campus (Permit Nos. A-8072, A-8491; Fig. 1). The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by the Ministry of Education, was directed by M.-D. Pasternak, with the assistance of T. Abulafia, A. Levy Hevroni and T. Sapir (area supervision), Y. Alamor (administration), G. Melnick (assistant area supervision), E. Aladjem and I. Azoulay (photogrammetry, surveying, plans and consultation), D. Eisenberg-Degen (field photography), Y. Abadi-Reiss (scientific guidance), Y. Asscher (analytical laboratory), E. Boaretto, Y. Regev and G. Rosenzweig (radiocarbon dating and micro-archaeology), Z. Turgeman-Yaffe (archaeozoology) and Y. Nagar (physical anthropology). Additional assistance was provided by S. Talis, G. Seri, I. Milevsky, D. Varga, F. Sonntag, D. Yegorov, Y. Gilad, P. Fabian, O. Marder, A. Fabian, S. Weksler and laborers from Tel Sheva‘, Kuseife, Abu Qurinat and ‘Ar‘ara in the Negev. Further assistance was providedby youths from the Ma‘aseh pre-military preparatory program and the Bikurim Youth Village, under the guidance of D. Pukshenski and S. Drachman, as well as by S. Zamir and M. Traktman (volunteers).
Martin David Pasternak (Thu,) studied this question.