Publications

14/06/2022

A. Doctoral Dissertation

  • Davidovich U. 2014. The Judean Desert during the Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages (Sixth-First Millennia BC): Desert and Sown Relations in light of Activity Patterns in a Defined Desert Environment. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Advisor: Prof. Amihai Mazar. Approved 23/2/2015.

B. Books

  • Davidovich U., Frumkin A., Langford B., Lisker S., Porat R., Ullman M. (edited by Frumkin A.). 2015. Holey Land Atlas: Judean Desert Caves. 454 pp. The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).

C. Books Edited

  • Davidovich U., Matskevitz S., Yahalom-Mack N. (eds.) forthcoming. Material, Method, and Meaning: Papers in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology in honor of Ilan Sharon. Zaphon, Münster (24 papers, final manuscript; scheduled to be published in early 2022).

D. Chapters in Edited Books

  • Davidovich U., Farhi Y., Kol-Ya’acov S., Har-Peled M., Weinblatt-Krauz D., ‘Alon Y. 2006. Salvage excavations at Ramot Forest and Ramat Bet-Hakerem: New data regarding Jerusalem’s periphery during the First and Second Temple periods. In Baruch E., Greenhut Z., Faust A. (eds.), New Studies on Jerusalem, Volume 11, pp. 35-111. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U. 2009. Does Iron Age Qeiyafa have a "lower city"? Preliminary note on the survey of the site surroundings. In Garfinkel Y., Ganor S., Khirbet Qeiyafa, Volume 1, Excavation Report 2007-2008, pp. 38-43. Israel Exploration Society and the Institute of archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
  • Porat R., Eshel H., Davidovich U., Frumkin A. 2009. The Caves of the Coin south of Nahal Kidron. In Eshel H., Porat R., Refuge Caves of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, Second Volume, pp. 53-67. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
  • Porat R., Eshel H., Davidovich U., Frumkin A. 2009. The finds from the Caves of the Figs. In Eshel H., Porat R., Refuge Caves of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, Second Volume, pp. 153-165. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
  • Zissu B., Langford B., Porat R., Davidovich U., Frumkin A. 2009. Finds from the Bar-Kokhba period in ‘Abud Cave. In Eshel H., Porat R., Refuge Caves of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, Second Volume, pp. 478-509. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., Porat N., Gadot Y., Avni Y., Lipschits O. 2011. A new method for terrace dating: A case study from Ramat Rahel. In Baruch E., Levy-Reifer A., Faust A. (eds.), New Studies on Jerusalem, Volume 17, pp. 473-492. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan (in Hebrew) (a concise version of #37).
  • Zissu B., Klein E., Davidovich U., Porat R., Langford B., Frumkin A. 2011. A pagan cult site (?) from the Late Roman period in the Te'omim Cave, western Jerusalem Hills. In Baruch E., Levy-Reifer A., Faust A. (eds.), New Studies on Jerusalem, Volume 17, pp. 311-341. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan (in Hebrew).
  • Porat R., Davidovich U., Frumkin A. 2012. Environmental setting of the Christmas Cave, Judean Desert, Israel. In Gunneweg J., Greenblatt C. (eds.), Outdoor Qumran and the Dead Sea: Its Impact on Indoor Bio- and Material Cultures at Qumran and the Judaean Desert Manuscripts (Proceedings of the Joint Hebrew University and COST Action D-42 Cultural Heritage Workshop held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in May 25-26, 2010). Electronic Book. http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msjan/qumranproceedings2010.html
  • Davidovich U., Porat R., Boaretto E., Liphschitz N., Mazar A., Frumkin A. 2013. Nahal Asa'el Cave: A unique 6000-year-old wooden installation and the Late Chalcolithic presence in hardly-accessible caves in the Judean Desert, Israel. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Speleology, Volume I, pp. 123-128. Brno.
  • Arubas B., Leibner U., Davidovich U. 2014. The fortified enclosure on top of Har Nitai. In Avi’am M. (ed.), “From Watch Tower to Fortified City": Forts and Fortresses in Northern Israel from the Canaanites to the IDF (Land of Galilee 3), pp. 131-141. Ostracon, Kinneret Academic College, Tzemach (in Hebrew) (a concise version of #45).
  • Gadot Y., Davidovich U., Avni G., Avni Y., Avraham A., Kisilevitz S., Ein-Mor D., Porat N. 2015. When were agricultural terraces built in the Jerusalem Highlands? The case of Nahal Refa’im. In Stiebel G.D., Peleg-Barkat O., Ben-Ami D., Gadot Y. (eds.), New studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Region, Volume 9, pp. 118-142. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., Porat R., Bar-Nathan R., Jackson-Tal R.E., Farhi Y., Marom N., Stiebel G.D. 2016. The road from the Judean Highlands to Masada and the excavations of Badar and Zefira Fortlets. In Patrich J., Peleg-Barkat O., Ben-Yosef E. (eds.), Arise, Walk Through the Land: Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Land of Israel in Memory of Yizhar Hirschfeld on the Tenth Anniversary of his Demise, pp. 103-128. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
  • Ben David C., Davidovich U., Porat R. 2016. Naqb Sfai (Ascent of Luhith?): A Roman-period road from the Lisan Peninsula to the Moabite plateau. In Patrich J., Peleg-Barkat O., Ben-Yosef E. (eds.), Arise, Walk Through the Land: Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Land of Israel in Memory of Yizhar Hirschfeld on the Tenth Anniversary of his Demise, pp. 129-148. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U. 2016. Chapter 42: agricultural installations. In Lipschits O., Gadot Y., Freud L. (eds.), Ramat Rahel III – Final Publication of Yohanan Aharoni’s Excavations (1954, 1959-1962), Volume II (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 35), pp. 643-653. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake.
  • Davidovich U., Leibner U., Arubas B. 2018. The Mount Nitai Fortification. In Leibner U., Khirbet Wadi Hamam, a Roman-period Village and Synagogue in the Lower Galilee (Qedem Reports 13), pp. 255-285. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.
  • Sabar R., Leibner U., Davidovich U., Langford B. 2018. The Mount Nitai cave survey. In Leibner U., Khirbet Wadi Hamam, a Roman-period Village and Synagogue in the Lower Galilee (Qedem Reports 13), pp. 286-303. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.
  • Davidovich U., Suma`kai-Fink A., Mazar A. 2020. Chapter 15B: Area D West, Strata D-11 to D-6: Late Bronze to Iron IA. In Mazar A., Paniz-Cohen N., Tel Rehov, A Bronze and Iron Age City in the Beth-Shean Valley, Vol. III, The Lower Mound: Areas D, E, F and G (Qedem 61), pp. 7-56. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
  • Davidovich U., Porat R. 2020. Chapter 14: Survey and excavations of subterranean features between Areas D6 and C1. In Lipschits O., Oeming M., Gadot Y. (eds.), Ramat Rahel IV – The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv-Heidelberg Expedition (2005-2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 39), pp. 354-374. Eisenbrauns, Tel Aviv.
  • Zissu B., Klein E., Davidovich U., Porat R., Langford B., Frumkin A. 2017. Votive offerings from the Late Roman period in the Te’omim Cave, Western Jerusalem Hills. In Tal O., Weiss Z. (eds.), Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Manifestations in Text and Material Culture (Contextualizing the Scared 6), pp. 111-130. Turnhout, Brepols.
  • Davidovich U., Porat R. 2019. Hermitages along the Dead Sea Escarpment: Archaeological, geographical and historical exploration. In Peleg-Barkat O., Ashkenazi J., Leibner U., Aviam M., Talgam R. (eds.), Between Sea and Desert: On Kings, Nomads, Cities and Monks, Essays in Honor of Joseph Patrich (Land of Galilee 5), pp. 211*-231*. Ostracon and Kinneret Academic College, Tzemach (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U. 2019. Nahal Hever. In Peilstöcker M., Wolfram S. (eds.), Leben am Toten Meer: Archäologie aus dem Heiligen Land (Das Buch zur Ausstellung), pp. 173-177. SMAC, Chemnitz (in German).
  • Ullman M., Davidovich U. 2019. Qina and Ashalim Caves: burial of selected individuals in the depth of complex caves in the Northern Negev during the Late Chalcolithic. In Varga D., Abadi-Reiss Y., Lehmann G., Vainstub D. (eds.), Worship and Burial in the Shephela and Negev Regions Through the Ages (The 15th Annual Joint Conference of the Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Southern Regional Office of the Israel Antiquities Authority), pp. 27-47. Beer Sheva (in Hebrew) (concise Hebrew version of #58).
  • Klein E., Ganor A., Porat R., Ullman M., Sukenik N., Davidovich U. 2020. New excavations in the Nahal Ze'elim Large Cave Complex, Judean Desert. In Abadi-Reiss Y., Varga D., Lehmann G. (eds.), Desert Archaeology (The 16th Annual Joint Conference of the Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Southern Regional Office of the Israel Antiquities Authority), pp. 33-56. Beer Sheva (in Hebrew). 
  • Davidovich U. 2020. Chapter 15: Area UG7, the Southern Columbarium. In Lipschits O., Oeming M., Gadot Y. (eds.), Ramat Rahel IV – The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv-Heidelberg Expedition (2005-2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 39), pp. 375-405. Eisenbrauns, Tel Aviv.
  • Davidovich U., Porat N. 2020. Chapter 16: Area T, survey and excavations on the western slope. In Lipschits O., Oeming M., Gadot Y. (eds.), Ramat Rahel IV – The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv-Heidelberg Expedition (2005-2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 39), pp. 406-430. Eisenbrauns, Tel Aviv.
  • Sukenik N., Ulanowska A., Goshen N., Porat R., Klein E., Ganor A., Ullman M., Davidovich U. 2020. A new south Levantine Chalcolithic tool and its possible relations to textile manufacture. In Bustamante-Álvarez M., Sánchez López E.H., Jiménez Ávila J. (eds.), PURPUREAE VESTES VII. Redefining Ancient Textile Handcraft: Structures, Tools and Production processes, Proceedings of the VIIth International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Granada, Spain 2-4 October 2019), pp. 499-511. Artes Graficas Rejas, Granada.
  • Davidovich U. 2022. Pounding amid the cliffs: Stationary facilities and cliff caves in the Judean Desert. In Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways, Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Research, 12th–15th September 2019, Copenhagen. Archaeopress, Oxford.
  • Davidovich U. in press. The En Gedi Shrine and the Cave of the Treasure: Disentangling the entangled. In Ben-Yosef E. and Jones I.M. (eds.), “And in length of days understanding” (Job 12:12), Thomas E. Levy Festschrift. Springer.

E. Articles in Refereed Journals

  • Davidovich U., Garfinkel Y. 2007. Sde-Eliyahu Water-Reservoir: The 1955 excavation of a Chalcolithic site in the Central Jordan Valley. Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of Israel Prehistoric Society 37: 419-451.
  • Lisker S., Porat R., Davidovich U., Eshel H., Lauritzen S.-E., Frumkin A. 2007. Late Quaternary environmental and human events at En Gedi, reflected by the geology and archaeology of the Moringa Cave (Dead Sea area, Israel). Quaternary Research 68: 203-212.
  • Porat R., Davidovich U. 2008. A newly-discovered cistern near the ‘First-Century Building’ near the top of the ‘En-Gedi Ascent. Israel Exploration Journal 58: 73-78.
  • Porat R., Eshel H., Davidovich U., Lisker S., Raz E., Frumkin A. 2010. Bar Kokhba refuge caves in the area between Ein Gedi and Qumran, in light of the renewed research project in the Judean Desert. Dead Sea and Arava Research 2: 1-20 (E-Journal, in Hebrew). http://www.adssc.org/jurnal/%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F-2010
  • Farhi Y., Davidovich U., Gadot Y., Lipschits O. 2010. The Ramat Rahel hoard of Tyrian Shekels. Israel Numismatic Journal 17: 59-76.
  • Davidovich U. 2012. The Early Bronze IB in the Judean Desert caves. Tel Aviv 39: 3-19.
  • Davidovich U., Porat N., Gadot Y., Avni Y., Lipschits O. 2012. Archaeological investigations and OSL dating of terraces at Ramat Rahel, Israel. Journal of Field Archaeology 37: 192-208.
  • Davidovich U. 2013. The Chalcolithic-Early Bronze transition: A view from the Judean Desert caves. Paléorient 39/1: 125-138.
  • Davidovich U., Ullman M., Leibner U. 2013. Late prehistoric occurrences in Har Nitai and Khirbat Wadi Hamam, northeastern Lower Galilee. Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 43: 186-204.
  • Davidovich U., Goldsmith Y., Porat R., Porat N 2014. Dating and interpreting desert structures: The enclosures of the Judean Desert, Southern Levant, re-evaluated. Archaeometry 56: 878-897.
  • Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E, Porat N, Davidovich, U. 2014. Personal ornaments at the Nahal Mishmar Cave of the Treasure. Near Eastern Archaeology 77: 267-273.
  • Frumkin A., Bar-Matthews M., Davidovich U., Langford B., Porat R., Ullman M., Zissu B. 2014. In-situ dating of ancient quarries and the source of flowstone (‘calcite-alabaster’) artifacts in the Southern Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science 41: 749-758.
  • Rosenberg D., Davidovich U. 2015. Looking at the overlooked: The possible significance of the ground stone assemblage from the Cave of the Treasure, Judaean Desert, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 373: 151-165.
  • Gadot Y., Davidovich U., Avni G., Avni Y., Porat N. 2015. The formation of terraced landscapes in the Judean Highlands, Israel. Antiquity, Project Gallery 346. Electronic Article. http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/gadot346 (reviewed by editor only).
  • Leibner U., Davidovich U., Arubas B. 2015. The structure, date and function of the Har Nitai Fortification. Eretz Israel 31 (Ehud Netzer Volume): 236-246 (in Hebrew).
  • Ellenblum R., Marco S., Kool R., Davidovich U., Porat R., Agnon A. 2015. Archaeological record of earthquake ruptures in Tell Ateret, the Dead Sea Fault. Tectonics 34: 2105-2117. DOI: 10.1002/2014tc003815
  • Yahalom-Mack N., Langgut D., Dvir O., Tirosh O., Eliyahu-Behar A., Erel Y., Langford B., Frumkin A., Ullman M., Davidovich U. 2015. The earliest lead object in the Levant. PLoS ONE 10 (12): e0142948. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142948
  • Langgut D., Yahalom-Mack N., Lev-Yadun S., Kremer E., Ullman M., Davidovich U. 2016. The earliest Near Eastern wooden spinning implements. Antiquity 90: 973-990. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.99
  • Gadot Y., Davidovich U, Avni G., Avni Y., Piasetzky M., Faershtein G., Golan D., Porat N. 2016. The formation of a Mediterranean terraced landscape: Har Eitan, Judean Highlands, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6: 397-417. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.02.028
  • Ben-Yosef E., Gidding A., Tauxe L., Davidovich U., Najjar M., Levy T.E 2016. Early Bronze Age copper production systems in the northern Arabah Valley: New insights from archaeomagnetic study of slag deposits in Jordan and Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 72: 71-84. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.05.010
  • Porat N., Davidovich U., Avni Y., Avni G., Gadot Y. 2018. Using OSL measurements to decipher soil history in archaeological terraces, Judean Highlands, Israel. Land Degradation & Development 29: 643-650. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2729
  • Zissu B., Langford B., Raviv D., Davidovich U., Porat R., Frumkin A. 2014. Coins from the Elqana Cave in Western Samaria. Israel Numismatic Journal 18 (Studies in Memory of Dan Barag): 146-154.
  • Gadot Y., Davidovich U., Avni Y., Avni G., Porat N. 2016. The formation of terraced landscapes in the Judean Highlands in Israel, and its implications for biblical agricultural history. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 5/4: 437-455. DOI: 10.1628/219222717x14991542936068
  • Mascher M, Schünemann V.J., Davidovich U., Himmelbach A., Hübner S., Fahima T., Korol A., David M., Marom N., Riehl S., Schreiber M., Vohr S.H., Green R.E., Dawson I.K., Russell J., Kilian B., Muehlbauer G.J., Waugh R., Krause J., Weiss E., Stein N. 2016. Genomic analysis of 6,000-year-old cultivated grain illuminates the domestication history of barley. Nature Genetics 48: 1089-1093. DOI: 10.1038/ng.3611
  • Langgut D., Yahalom-Mack N., Lev-Yadun S., Kremer E., Ullman M., Davidovich U. 2017. On Chalcolithic maceheads and spinning implements. Antiquity 91: 777-782. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2017.72
  • Bar S., Cohen-Klonymus H., Pinski S., Bar-Oz G., Zuckerman R., Shalvi G., Davidovich U. 2017. Fazael 7: A large Chalcolithic architectural complex in the Jordan Valley, the 2009-2016 excavations. Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 47: 208-247. www.jstor.org/stable/26572673
  • Wachtel I., Sabar R., Davidovich U. 2017. Tell Gush Halav during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Strata – Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 35: 115-134.
  • Davidovich U., Ullman M., Langford B., Frumkin A., Langgut D., Yahalom-Mack N., Abramov J., Marom N. 2018. Distancing the dead: Late Chalcolithic burials in large maze caves in the Negev Desert, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 379: 113-152. DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.379.0113
  • Frumkin A., Aharon S., Davidovich U., Langford B., Negev Y., Ullman M., Vaks A., Yaʻaran S., Zissu B. 2018. Old and recent processes in a warm and humid desert hypogene cave: ‘A’rak Naʻasane, Israel. International Journal of Speleology 47(3): 307-321. DOI: 10.5038/1827-806X.47.3.2178
  • Wachtel I., Sabar R., Davidovich U. 2018. Tell Gush Halav during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Eretz Israel 33 (Lawrence E. Stager Volume): 129-140 (in Hebrew) (Hebrew version of #57).
  • Gadot Y., Elgart-Sharon Y., Ben-Melech N., Davidovich U., Avni G., Avni Y., Porat N 2018. OSL dating of pre-terraced and terraced landscape: Land transformation in Jerusalem’s rural hinterland. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 21: 575-583. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.08.036
  • Mazar A., Davidovich U. 2019. Canaanite Reḥob: Tel Reḥov in the Late Bronze Age. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 381: 163-191. DOI: 10.1086/703205
  • Jackson-Tal R.E., Raviv D., Langford B., Davidovich U., Frumkin A., Porat R., Zissu B. 2020. Glass use as a reflection of abandonment processes: The 'Abud refuge cave, Roman Judea (133/134 C.E.). Journal of Glass Studies 62: 69-82.
  • Wachtel I., Davidovich U. 2021. Qedesh in the Galilee: The emergence of an Early Bronze Age Levantine megasite. Journal of Field Archaeology 46: 260-274. DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2021.1901025
  • Lazagabaster I.L., Ullman M., Porat R., Halevi R., Porat N., Davidovich U., Marom N. 2021. Changes in the large carnivore community structure of the Judean Desert in connection to Holocene human settlement dynamics. Scientific Reports 11: 3458. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82996-6
  • Lazagabaster I.A., Rovelli V., Fabre P.-H., Porat R., Ullman M., Davidovich U., Lavi T., Ganor A., Klein E., Weiss K., Nuriel P., Meiri M., Nimrod Marom. 2021. Rare crested rat subfossils unveil Afro-Eurasian ecological corridors synchronous with early human dispersals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (31): e2105719118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105719118
  • Lazagabaster I.L., Égüez N., Ullman M., Porat R., Wachtel I., Davidovich U., Marom N. 2021. Cave paleozoology in the Judean Desert: Assembling records of Holocene wild mammal communities. Journal of Quaternary Science. DOI:10.1002/jqs.3405
  • Davidovich U., Ben-David C., Porat R. 2022. The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab: A Geographic and Historical Enquiry. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 154 (2): 141-159. DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2050093
  • Davidovich U., Zilberman E. 2022. Environment, Archaeoseismology and site formation processes at Tel Reḥov. Near Eastern Archaeology.
  • Tchekhanovets Y., Porat R., Jojua T., Davidovich U. 2022. Materiality of seclusion: A decorated monastic hermitage in the Dead Sea Escarpment. Material Religion.
  • Mazar A., Davidovich U., Panitz-Cohen N., Rotem Y., Sumakaʾi Fink A. 2022. The Canaanite City at Tel Reḥov from the Early Bronze Age to the End of the Iron Age I. Near Eastern Archaeology.
  • Davidovich U., Ben-David C., Porat R. 2022. The Roman-period road network in southern Moab: A geographic and historical enquiry. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 154(2): 141-159. DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2050093
  • Tchekhanovets Y., Porat R., Jojua T., Davidovich U. 2022. Materiality of seclusion: A decorated monastic hermitage in the Dead Sea Escarpment. Material Religion. DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2022.2083413
  • Zissu B., Klein E., Davidovich U., Porat R., Langford B., Shtober-Zissu N., Amir A., Ullman M., Frumkin A. 2022. The Te’omim Cave, Jerusalem Hills: A preliminary archaeological report. Speleology and Spelestology 1(4): 47-63.
  • Ullman M., Laugomer B., Shicht I., Langford B., Ya’aran S., Wachtel I., Frumkin A., Davidovich U. 2023. Formation processes and spatial patterning in a late prehistoric complex cave in northern Israel informed by SLAM-based LiDAR. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 47 (103745). DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103745
  • Mashiach A., Davidovich U. 2023. The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judean Desert in the Late Iron Age. Tel Aviv 50(1): 21-43. DOI: 10.1080/03344355.2023.2190273
  • Atkins S., Davidovich U. 2023. Exterritorial rituals and intercultural encounters in the Early Bronze Age Levant: A reconsideration of the Mitzpe Shalem site cluster. Levant 55(1):  78-100.  DOI:10.1080/00758914.2023.2191464

Other Publications

  • Porat R., Frumkin A., Davidovich U., Shai I., Eshel H. 2007. The Moringa Cave at the En-Gedi oasis. Qadmoniot 133: 27-31 (in Hebrew).
  • Porat R., Eshel H., Davidovich U., Frumkin A. 2009. The refuge caves from the Bar Kokhba Revolt in the Judean Desert – new discoveries. Ariel 186: 6-29 (in Hebrew).
  • Bar-Adon D., Davidovich U., Porat R. 2009. “Master of the Desert” – a voyage in the Judean Desert in the footsteps of Pesach Bar-Adon. Ariel 186: 30-44 (in Hebrew).
  • Zissu B., Eshel H., Stiebel G.D., Porat R., Langford B., Davidovich U., Frumkin A. 2009. Finds from the Bar-Kokhba period in the Te'omim Cave in the western Jerusalem hills. Qadmoniot 138: 118-121 (in Hebrew).
  • Arubas B., Leibner U., Davidovich U. 2015. The fortified enclosure atop Mt. Nitai. Qadmoniot 149: 40-45 (in Hebrew).
  • Sabar R., Leibner U., Davidovich U., Langford B. 2015. Survey of the caves in the cliffs of Mt. Nitai. Qadmoniot 149: 46-50 (in Hebrew).
  • Klein E., Davidovich U., Porat R., Ganor A., Ullman M. 2017. In the Cave of the Skulls – again. Biblical Archaeology Review, July-August 2017: 18-19, 57.
  • Klein E., Davidovich U., Ganor A., Sukenik N. 2019. Nahal Hever (final report). Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel 131.
  • Ben-Yosef E., Beeri R., Davidovich U. 2021. Exploitation of copper deposits in the Aravah and ancient activity waves in the Negev Highlands: Bronze and Iron Age sites in the Yeruham Regions. In Kenigsberg C., Eshed Y. (eds.), Israel Geological Society Annual Conference, Yeruham 2021, Field Trips Guide, pp. 45-73.
  • Wachtel I., Davidovich U. 2021. Upper Galilee, Survey (final report). Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel 133.
  • Langford B., Davidovich U., Ullman M., Frumkin A. 2021. The Caves of Nahal Hever. Niqrot Zurim, Journal of the Israel Cave Research Center 21: 111-137.
  • Davidovich U., Wachtel I. 2022. Tel Qedesh, 2018-2019. Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel 134.

F. Participation in Scientific Conferences, Lectures, and Other Activity

Lectures in Scientific Conferences

  • Davidovich U., Farhi Y., Kol-Ya’acov S., Har-Peled M., Weinblatt-Krauz D., ‘Alon Y., “Salvage excavations at Ramot Forest and Ramat Bet-Hakerem: new data regarding Jerusalem’s periphery during the First and Second Temple periods”, New Studies on Jerusalem, 11th Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 2006 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “The Judean Desert in the Late Chalcolithic period: a re-assessment”, 36th Annual Archaeological Congress in Israel, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 2010 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “The Chalcolithic-Early Bronze transition: a view from the Judean Desert caves”, The Transition from Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze in the Southern Levant: Continuity and/or Discontinuity? International Workshop, The French Research Center in Jerusalem, 2010.
  • Davidovich U., “The south-eastern border of the kingdom of Judea in the Judean Desert”, New Studies on Ancient Israel and its Neighbors, Young Scholars Conference, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2011 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., Porat N., Gadot Y., Avni Y., Lipschits O., “A new method for terrace dating: a case study from Ramat Rahel”, New Studies on Jerusalem, 17th Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 2011 (in Hebrew).
  • Porat N., Davidovich U., Gadot Y., Lipschits O., Avni Y., “OSL dating of archaeological terraces at Ramat Rahel”, Israel Geological Society Annual Meeting, 2011 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “Between Judea, Edom and Nabataea: the southern Judean Desert in the first millennium BC”, ARAM 34th International Conference: The Edomites and the Nabataeans, The Oriental Institute, Oxford, UK, 2012.
  • Davidovich U., “Unraveling the mystery of Mount Nitai Fortification, the stronghold of Khirbet Hamam”, American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2012.
  • Davidovich U., Frumkin A., “The proto-history of natural caves in the western Central Highlands, Southern Levant”, American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2012.
  • Arubas B., Leibner U., Davidovich U., "The fortified enclosure on top of Har Nitai.", From Watch Tower to Fortified City: Forts and Fortresses in Northern Israel from the Canaanites to the IDF, Kinneret Academic College, Tzemach, 2012 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “The Late Chalcolithic copper hoard from Nahal Mishmar (Judean Desert, Israel) in a regional perspective”, Mining for Copper: Environment, Culture and Copper in Antiquity (Timna International Conference), Timna Valley, 2013.
  • Davidovich U., Porat R., Boaretto E., Liphschitz N., Mazar A., Frumkin A., “Nahal Asa'el Cave: a unique 6000-year-old wooden installation and the Late Chalcolithic presence in hardly-accessible caves in the Judean Desert, Israel”, 16th International Congress of Speleology, Brno, Czech Republic, 2013.
  • Davidovich U., Marom N., Porat R., Boaretto E., Weiss E., “Yoram Cave (Masada) and the Late Chalcolithic activity in cliff caves of the Judean Desert”, Israel Prehistoric Society Annual Conference, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2013 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., Marom N., Porat R., Boaretto E., Weiss E., “Yoram Cave (Masada): human-environment interaction in the Late Chalcolithic Judean Desert, Israel”, 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Basel, Switzerland, 2014.
  • Ullman M., Davidovich U. Langford B., Frumkin A., Langgut D., Yahalom-Mack N., Abramov J., Marom N., "Qina and Ashalim Caves: burial of selected individuals in maze caves in the Northern Negev during the Late Chalcolithic", Israel Prehistoric Society Annual Conference, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 2015 (in Hebrew).
  • Porat N., Gadot Y., Davidovich U., Avni Y., Avni G., Golan D., “Using OSL to decipher past soil history in archaeological terraces, Judean Highlands, Israel”, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2015.
  • David M., Davidovich U., Marom N., Weiss E., ”I gave a flower to Nurith”: buttercups, flowers, and preservation of botanic remains in the Chalcolithic Yoram Cave”, 41st Annual Archaeological Congress in Israel, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 2015 (in Hebrew).
  • Gadot Y., Porat N., Davidovich U., “OSL and archaeological dating of terrace walls: the emergence of terrace farming in the Judean Highlands of Israel“, European Archaeological Association (EAA) Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2015.
  • Gadot Y., Davidovich U., Avni G., Avni Y., Avraham A., Kisilevitz S., Ein-Mor D., Porat N., “When were agricultural terraces built in the Jerusalem Highlands? The case of Nahal Refa’im”, New studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Region, 9th conference, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2015 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., Ben-David C., Porat R., “The Roman-period road network in southern Moab and the Bar Kokhba Revolt: new discoveries and hypotheses”, The Bar Kokhba Revolt Revisited: Old and New Studies, International Conference, University of Haifa, Haifa, 2016.
  • Davidovich U., “Desert and sown relations in the Southern Levant: comparing local deserts and the wide arid belt”, 42st Annual Archaeological Congress in Israel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2016 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “Highland agriculture without terraces: reviewing Bronze and Iron Ages agricultural landscapes in the Jerusalem hinterland and their implications for terracing motivation”, Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2016), Uppsala, Sweden, 2016.
  • Davidovich U., “Desert and sown relations in the Southern Levant: comparing local deserts and the wide arid belt”, Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2016), Uppsala, Sweden, 2016.
  • Davidovich U., “The emergence of highland polities: Qedesh and the Upper Galilee during the Early Bronze Age”, American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting, Boston, 2017.
  • Davidovich U., "The Hebrew University Expedition to Tel Qedesh: background, research agenda and methodology", New Studies on the Galilee and its Environs, 19th Conference, Tel Hai, 2017 (in Hebrew).
  • Ullman M., Davidovich U., Wachtel I., Frumkin A., Lavi R., Marder O., Hershkovitz I., May H., Boaretto E., "Har Sifsof Cave and the material culture of the Galilee in the early fifth millennium BCE", Israel Prehistoric Society Annual Conference, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2017 (in Hebrew).
  • Porat N., Alinson R., Avni Y., Davidovich U., Ben Dor E., Gadot Y., "Time scale for degradation and erosion of archaeological terraces in the Judea Mountains, Israel", European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2017.
  • Davidovich U., Porat R., “New excavations in the Large Cave Complex of Naḥal Ze’elim: a refuge complex of the Bar-Kokhba Revolt”, The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: “Clear a Path in the Wilderness”, International Conference, Jerusalem, 2018.
  • Davidovich U., Porat R., "Desert roads", Motion, Movement and Mobility, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2018 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., Ben-Yosef E., “Transitions during the Early Bronze Age in the Levant: A View from the Arabah and the Negev”, Transitions during the Early Bronze Age in the Levant: Methodological Problems and Interpretative Perspectives, International Conference, Albright Institute, Jerusalem, 2018.
  • Wachtel I., Zidon R., Davidovich U., “Using MaxEnt modeling to analyze pastoral nomadic activity patterns: southern Judean Desert as a case-study", Digital Archaeology: New Studies and Advanced Technologies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2019 (in Hebrew).
  • Ullman M., Davidovich U. 2019, "Qina and Ashalim Caves: burial of selected individuals in the depth of complex caves in the Northern Negev during the Late Chalcolithic", Worship and Burial in the Shephela and Negev Regions Through the Ages (The 15th Annual Joint Conference of the Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Southern Regional Office of the Israel Antiquities Authority), Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 2019 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “Pounding amid the cliffs: stationary cupmarks in Judean Desert cliff caves, Israel”, Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways, The 3rd Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Research (AGTSR), Copenhagen, 2019.
  • Davidovich U., Wachtel I., “Modeling pastoral nomadism: a regional archaeological study of Bedouin exploitation patterns in the Judean Desert”, American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2019.
  • Klein E., Ganor A., Porat R., Ullman M., Sukenik N., Davidovich U., "New excavations in the Nahal Ze'elim Large Cave Complex, Judean Desert", Desert Archaeology (The 16th Annual Joint Conference of the Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Southern Regional Office of the Israel Antiquities Authority), Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 2020 (in Hebrew). 
  • Davidovich U., "Activity patterns and task-specific sites: Desert perspectives on EBA regionalism", 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Bolonga, Italy, 2021 (remote conference).
  • Harlavan Y., Davidovich U., Porat N., "Tracing the source of Ghassulian beads from Nahal Ze'elim", Israel Geological Society Annual Meeting, 2021 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., Wachtel I., Zidon R., "Patterning pastoral nomadism: MaxEnt modeling of Bedouin sites in the Judean Desert", 3rd International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 3), Nicosia, Cyprus, 2022.
  • Wachtel I., Zidon R., Grinberger Y., Davidovich U., "Meta-population theory for settlement pattern analysis: Movement, colonization, and depopulation in 16th-20th centuries Galilee", 3rd International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 3), Nicosia, Cyprus, 2022.
  • Davidovich U., “Leopard traps and human-leopard interactions in the Judean Desert”, Human-Carnivoran Interactions: past, present and future, International Symposium, University of Haifa, 2022.
  • Davidovich U., “Dividing between the Desert and the Sown: Tangible borders and imagined frontiers in the Judean Desert, Israel”, Walls, Borders and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and Contemporary World, International Conference, The Hebrew University and the Wall Project, Jerusalem, 2022.

Selected Invited Lectures

  • Davidovich U., “Research expeditions in the desert escarpments: Pesach Bar-Adon in the Judean Desert, 1962-1982”, The 6th Conference of "Melakh Ha'aretz" (Pesach Bar-Adon Birth Centenary), Ein Gedi, 2008 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “The En Gedi oasis during the Chalcolithic period – the shrine in spatial context”, Conference in Honor of Prof. Amihai Mazar on Occasion of his Retirement, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2010 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U.,“The Cave of the Treasure in light of the renewed research in the Judean Desert”, 4th Meeting of the Forum for the Research of the Chalcolithic Period: Celebrating 50 Years to the Discovery of the Nahal Mishmar Hoard, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2011 (in Hebrew).
  • Porat R., Davidovich U., “Badar and Zfira Fortlets and the road system from the Judean Highlands to Masada”, 70 Years to the Masada Seminar, Ein Gedi Field School 2nd Annual Conference, 2012 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “In the beginning: the Chalcolithic cave complex in the southern cliff of Masada”, Conference Celebrating 50 Years to Yadin’s Excavations at Masada, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2013 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., “Identifying a landscape of prehistoric refuge: the Judean Desert (Southern Levant) during the Late Chalcolithic period”, Research Seminar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK, 2015.
  • Davidovich U., "Radiometric dating and material culture of the Judean Desert caves: back to the 'end of the Ghassulian culture' hypothesis?", 9th Meeting of the Forum for the Research of the Chalcolithic Period: The Periodization of the Ghassulian and other Contemporary Chalcolithic Entities of the Second Half of the 5th-Beginning of the 4th Millennia BC, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, 2016.
  • Davidovich U., Porat R., Klein E., Ganor A., "Antiquities looting, written documents and new excavations in the Large Cave Complex of Nahal Ze'elim", Meeting in Memory of Yizhar Hirschfeld on the Tenth Anniversary of his Demise, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2016 (in Hebrew).
  • Ullman M., Davidovich U., "The Ghassulian Chalcolithic in the Central Highlands of the Southern Levant in light of the research of complex karst caves", 10th Meeting of the Forum for the Research of the Chalcolithic Period, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2017 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., "Late Prehistoric Judean Desert Caves - new discoveries and hypotheses", Invited Seminar, Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute, 2017.
  • Davidovich U., "Judean Desert in later prehistory: new results and interpretations", Invited Seminar, Department of Archaeology, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 2017 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., "A 6000(+56) year old hoard: The Chalcolithic bead hoard from the Cave of Skulls in Nahal Ze'elim", Meeting in Honor of Ossi and Baruch Brandl on Occasion of their Retirement, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2017 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., "Tel Qedesh and the earliest urbanization cycle in the southern Levant", The Galilee in Biblical Times, 10th Rosh Pina Conference, Rosh Pina, 2019 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., Porat R., Tchekhanovets Y., "Archaeology of hermits: the contribution of the Dead Sea Escarpment to the study of Judean Desert monasticism", Meeting in Honor of Joseph Patrich on Occasion of his Retirement, Jerusalem, 2019 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., "Har Sifsof Cave and the beginning of ritual burial in deep complex caves in the Levant", Mabat el Ha'Avar, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, 2019 (in Hebrew).   
  • Davidovich U., "Regional surveys in the Judean Desert – the prehistoric perspective", Israel Antiquities Authority Prehistoric Department Seminar, Jerusalem, 2020 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U., "Judean Desert nomadism: past and present", Invited Seminar, Department of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2020 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U.,Porat N., Harlavan Y., “Technologies Intertwined – Copper and Enstatite”, 13th Meeting of the Forum for the Research of the Chalcolithic Period: Ghassulian Metallurgy in Context, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2021 (in Hebrew).
  • Davidovich U. "The end of the Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant – a view from the Judean Desert", Invited Seminar, University of Heidelberg, 2022.
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