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‘Atiqot 81 (2015)
ISBN 2948-040X
An Iron Age Cemetery and Other Remains at Yavne
(with a contribution by Danny Syon)
(pp. 1*–33*)
Raz Kletter and Yossi Nagar
Keywords: coastal plain, burial, ethnicity, Philistines, burial goods
Excavations at Yavne, on the plain immediately north of the ancient tell, uncovered finds from several periods: small finds from the Early and Middle Bronze Ages; a Late Bronze Age tomb; an Iron Age cemetery; and scanty remains from the Byzantine and Ottoman periods. The Iron Age cemetery comprised 28 tombs and graves. This large, dense cemetery provides significant archaeological evidence of the Philistine city of Yavne during the tenth–eighth centuries BCE.