Contents List

PART I - THE SITE AND ITS EXCAVATIONS

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION (Yosef Garfinkel) 3

CHAPTER 2. FIELD OBSERVATIONSATIONS (Yosef Garfinkel, Ofer Marder, Hamoudi Khalaily, Ianir Milevski, Avraham Ronen, Moshe Davis, Mordechai Lamdan, Nimrod Getzov) 13

• Area C (Yosef Garfinkel) 13
• Area E (Ofer Marder, Hamoudi Khalaily, Ianir Milevski) 36
• Area D (Avraham Ronen, Moshe Davis, Mordechai Lamdan) 48
• The 2007–2008 Excavation Seasons (Hamoudi Khalaily, Ianir Milevski, Nimrod Getzov) 56
• Summary of the Three Excavations at Yiftahel (Yosef Garfinkel, Doron Dag, Hamoudi Khalaily, Ofer Marder, Ianir Milevski, Avraham Ronen) 60
• Appendix 2.1. Area C: List of Excavated Units (Buckets) 62
• Appendix 2.2: Area C: Locus List 69
• Appendix 2.3: Area E: Selected Baskets from Levels C1–C4 72

PART II - THE LITHIC INDUSTRY

CHAPTER 3. THE LITHIC INDUSTY OF AREA C (Yosef Garfinkel) 77

• Appendix 3.1. Technological Observations (Angela Davidson) 93–96

CHAPTER 4. THE LITHIC IN DUSTRY OF AREA E (Ofer Marder, Hamoudi Khalaily, Ianir Milevski) 155

CHAPTER 5. THE LITHIC INDUSTRY OF AREA D (Avraham Ronen) 189

PART III. - OTHER MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES

CHAPTER 6. THE GROUNDSTONE STONE INDUSTRY (Doron Dag, Ianir Milevski, Ofer Marder, Hamoudi Khalaily) 197

• Area C (Doron Dag) 197
• Area E (Ianir Milevski, Ofer Marder, Hamoudi Khalaily) 205

CHAPTER 7. BEAD PRODUCTION IN AREA C (Yosef Garfinkel) 207

• Additional Observations on the Stone Beads (Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Naomi Porat) 213 

CHAPTER 8. BAKED-CLAY OBJECTS IN AREA C (Doron Dag) 215

CHAPTER 9. THE BONE TOOLSTOOLS (Yosef Garfinkel, Liora K. Horwitz, Francesca Alhaique) 217

• Area C (Yosef Garfinkel, Liora K. Horwitz) 217
• Area E (Francesca Alhaique) 227

CHAPTER 10. PLASTER AND LIME-BURNING TECHNIQUES (Roman Malinowski) 229

CHAPTER 11. THE SOURCE OF OBSIDIAN ARTIFACTS (Joseph Yellin) 243

PART IV. ANTHROPOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL STUDIES

CHAPTER 12. THE SKELETAL REMAINS (Israel Hershkovitz, Yosef Garfinkel, Baruch Arensburg, Vered Eshed) 249

• Area C (Israel Hershkovitz, Yosef Garfinkel, Baruch Arensburg) 249
• Area E (Vered Eshed) 256 

CHAPTER 13. THE FAUNA (Francesca Alhaique, Liora K. Horwitz) 259

• Area E (Francesca Alhaique) 259
• Area D (Liora K. Horwitz) 268 

CHAPTER 14. THE MOLLUSCA (Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Joseph Heller) 279 

CHAPTER 15. THE SEEDS (Mordechai L. Kislev, Yosef Garfinkel, Daniel Zohary) 283

• Horsebean Seeds (Mordechai L. Kislev) 283
• Lentil Seeds (Yosef Garfinkel, Mordechai L. Kislev, Daniel Zohary) 284

CHAPTER 16. BOTANICAL ANALYSIS OF THE WOODREMNANTS (Nili Liphschitz) 287 

CHAPTER 17. THE MICROBOTANICAL REMAINS (Arlene Miller-Rosen) 289

PART V. CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 18. THE PPNB VILLA GE OF YIFTA IFTAHEL AS RE VEALE D IN THE THREE EXCAVATIONSATIONS (Yosef Garfinkel, Doron Dag, Hamoudi Khalaily, Ofer Marder, Ianir Milevski, Avraham Ronen) 293

BIBLIOGRAPHY 299