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BOOKS

Bechar S., (in press). Political Changes and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan. Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press, Winona Lake.

Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S. Bechar S. and Sandhaus D. (eds.), 2017. Hazor VII - The 1990-2012 Excavations - The Bronze Age. Jerusalem.

Ben-Tor A., Bechar S., Cimadevilla M. and Sandhaus D. (eds.), (forthcoming). Hazor VIII - The 1990-2018 Excavations – Area M. Jerusalem.

 

JOURNALS (chronologically ordered)

Bechar S., Ben-Tor A., Wachtel I., Ben-Tor D., Boaretto E., and Stockhammer P. 2021. The Destruction of Late Bronze Age Hazor. Agypten und Levante 31: 45–73.

Bechar S., Yasur-Landau A. and Marom N. Storage Vessels as Indicators of Crises Management (accepted to Tel Aviv, November 2021).

Lev R., Bechar S., Covello-Paran K., and Boaretto E. 2021. Absolute Chronology of the Black Wheel Made Ware in the Southern Levant and its Synchronization with the Northern Levant. Levant.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2021.1960003

Lev R., Bechar S., and Boaretto E. (in press). Hazor EB III City Abandonment and Iba People Return: Radiocarbon Chronology and Its Implications. Radiocarbon, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2021.76.

Bechar S. (in press). Gitin, Seymour, ed. The Ancient Pottery of Israel and Its Neighbors from the Middle Bronze Age through the Late Bronze Age. 3 vols. Jerusalem: Old City Press Ltd., 2019. 473 pp., + 173 plates with 1,669 images. Hardcover. $120.00 (invited review by Bulleting of the American Schools of Oriental Research).

Bechar S. 2020. Abuse, Reuse, Recycle: The Uses of Basalt Orthostats at Hazor in the Bronze and Iron Ages Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 40 (1). http://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12208

Agrant-Tamir L., Waldman S., Martin M., Gokhman D., Eshel T., Cheronet O., Rohland N., Mallick S., Adamski N., Broomandkhoshbacht N., Lawson A. M., Mah M., Michel M., Oppenheimer J., Stewardson K., Tzur S., Bechar S., Faerman M., Yahalom-Mack N., Monge J. M., Erel Y., Yakir B., Pinhasi R., Carmi S., Finkelstein I., Carmel L. and Reich D. A. 2020. The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant. Cell 181: 1146–1157.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.024

Marom N., Bechar S., Panitz-Cohen N., Mullins R. A. and Yahalom-Mack N., 2020.
Faunal Remains from Tel Abel Beth Maacha and Social Change in the Late Second Millennium BCE Hula Valley. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102394

Sha’ar R., Bechar S., Finkelstein I., Gallet Y., Martin M., Ebert Y., Keinan J., and Gonen L. 2020. Synchronizing Geomagnetic Field Intensity Records in the Levant between the 23rd and 15th Centuries BCE: Chronological and Methodological Implications. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21, e2020GC009251.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009251

Susnow M., Bechar S. and Yasur-Landau A., 2020. Hazor Rulership and Ritual Manipulation. PEF 152(2): 121–146.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2020.1720334

Zuckerman S., Bechar S., Ben-Shlomo D., Mommsen H., and Mountjoy P. A. 2020. Neutron Activation Analysis of Mycenaean Pottery from North Israel: Reconstruction of Aegean-Levantine Trade Patterns. Agypten und Levante 30: 569–633.

Bechar S. 2018. The Bronze and Iron Age Cultic Standing Stones at Tel Hazor. Eretz-Israel 33: 51-63 (Hebrew).

Bechar S. 2018. Take a Stone and Set It Up as a Massebah: The Tradition of Standing Stones at Hazor. ZDPV 134(1): 28-45.

Bechar S. and Berger U. 2018. Tel Mashav: The Eyes of Tel Hazor. West & East III: 9-23.

Bechar S. 2015. A Renewed Analysis of the Black Wheel-Made Ware of the Intermediate Bronze Age. Tel-Aviv 42: 27-58.

Yahalom-Mack N., Gadot Y., Behar-Eliyahu A., Bechar S., Shilstein S. and Finkelstein I., 2014. Metalworking at Hazor: A Long-Term Perspective. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 33(1): 19-45.


REVIEWER

Bulleting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR)
Journal for Semitics

 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (reviewed)

Bechar S. 2020. It’s in the Style: Black Wheel-made Ware and Their Social Meaning. In: Richard S., ed. New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV in the Levant. University Park, PA, 365–375.

Bechar S. In press. Changes in the Architectural Fabric of Hazor’s Lower City from the Middle Bronze to the Late Bronze. In: Dever W. and Long J., eds. Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Early Bronze Age: Essays in Honor of Suzanne Richard. Sheffield.

Bechar S. and Zuckerman S. z”l, 2016. Hazor. In: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (eds: Orlin E., Fried S. S., Satlow M., and Knust J.) New York and London.

 

EXCAVATION REPORTS

Bechar S. 2017. The Intermediate Bronze Age. In: Hazor VII - The 1990-2012 Excavations - The Bronze Age (eds: Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S. Bechar S. and Sandhaus D.). Jerusalem, 14-19.

Bechar S. 2017. The Intermediate Bronze Age Pottery. In: Hazor VII - The 1990-2012 Excavations - The Bronze Age (eds: Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S. Bechar S. and Sandhaus D.). Jerusalem, 161-198.

Bechar S. 2017. The Middle and Late Bronze Age Pottery. In: Hazor VII - The 1990-2012 Excavations - The Bronze Age (eds: Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S. Bechar S. and Sandhaus D.). Jerusalem, 199-467

Ben-Tor A. and Bechar S. 2017. Introduction. In: Hazor VII - The 1990-2012 Excavations - The Bronze Age (eds: Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S. Bechar S. and Sandhaus D.). Jerusalem, 1-3.

Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S., Bechar S. and Weinblat-Kraus D. 2017. The Middle Bronze Age. In: Hazor VII - The 1990-2012 Excavations - The Bronze Age (eds: Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S. Bechar S. and Sandhaus D.). Jerusalem, 20-65

Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S., Bechar S. Bonfil R., Weinblat-Kraus D. and Sandhaus D. 2017. The Late Bronze Age. In: Hazor VII - The 1990-2012 Excavations - The Bronze Age (eds: Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S. Bechar S. and Sandhaus D.). Jerusalem, 66-141.

Zuckerman S. and Bechar S. 2017. The Early Bronze Age In: Hazor VII - The 1990-2012 Excavations - The Bronze Age (eds: Ben-Tor A., Zuckerman S. Bechar S. and Sandhaus D.). Jerusalem, 7-13.

Bechar S. 2012. Worked Bone, Ivory and Horn Objects. In: Hazor VI - The 1990-2009 Excavations - The Iron Age (eds: Ben-Tor A, Ben-Ami D. and Sandhaus D.). Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 496-505.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW

Bechar S., Marom N., Martini S., and Makarewicz C. A Stable Isotope Investigation of Livestock Mobility at Hazor and the Permeability of Iron Age Geopolitical Borders in the Levant (submitted to PlosOne).

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PREPERATION

Bechar S., Lernau O. and Marom N. Fish and Sheep: A Faunal Perspective on Social Transformations and Collapse in Bronze Age Hazor.

Bechar S. and Soldi S. In and Out of Syria: Ceramic Comparison of Hazor and Zincirli in the Middle Bronze Age.

Stockhammer P. W., Rageot M. and Bechar S. Functions and Meanings of the Aegean-type Pottery from Hazor: A Contextual Approach.

 

EXCAVATION REPORTS IN PREPERATION

Bechar S. The Middle Bronze Age. In: Hazor VIII - The 1990-2018 Excavations in Area M (eds: Ben-Tor A., Bechar S., Sandhaus D. and Cimadevilla M.). Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

Bechar S. The Late Bronze Age. In: Hazor VIII - The 1990-2018 Excavations in Area M (eds: Ben-Tor A., Bechar S., Sandhaus D. and Cimadevilla M.). Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

Bechar S. The Middle and Late Bronze Age Pottery. In: Hazor VIII - The 1990-2018 Excavations in Area M (eds: Ben-Tor A., Bechar S., Sandhaus D. and Cimadevilla M.). Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

Cimedavilla M., Bechar S., and Sandhaus D. The Iron Age. In: Hazor VIII - The 1990-2018 Excavations in Area M (eds: Ben-Tor A., Bechar S., Sandhaus D. and Cimadevilla M.). Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

Bechar S. The Typology of the Middle and Late Bronze Age Pottery from Area S. In: The Rise and Decline of a Canaanite Kingdom: A View from the Lower City – An Account of the 2008-2010 Excavation Seasons of Area S (eds.: Wachtel, Bechar and Zuckerman). Qedem. Jerusalem.

Bechar S. Results of a Methodological Experiment of High Resolution Sampling from Domestic Contexts. In: The Rise and Decline of a Canaanite Kingdom: A View from the Lower City – An Account of the 2008-2010 Excavation Seasons of Area S (eds.: Wachtel, Bechar and Zuckerman). Qedem. Jerusalem.

Bechar S. and Wachtel I. Summery and Conclusions - The Rise and Decline of a Canaanite Kingdom: A View from the Lower City. In: The Rise and Decline of a Canaanite Kingdom: A View from the Lower City – An Account of the 2008-2010 Excavation Seasons of Area S (eds.: Wachtel, Bechar and Zuckerman). Qedem. Jerusalem.

Ben-Tor A., Bechar S., Sandhaus D. and Cimadevilla M. (eds.)., Hazor VIII – The 1990–2018 Excavation Seasons in Area M. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

Wachtel I., Bechar S. and Zuckerman S. (eds.)., The Rise and Decline of a Canaanite Kingdom: A View from the Lower City – An Account of the 2008-2010 Excavation Seasons of Area S. Qedem, Jerusalem.