Studies in the Material and Spiritual Culture of the Negev and Sinai Populations, During the 6th-3rd Millennia B.C.

The studies are by-products of my work for the Department of Antiquity and the Israel Antiquities Authority since 1977, which was aimed at the protection and conservation of the region’s archaeological remains. [...] I thank Dalya Enoch, Iris Inbar, Elisheva Gordon and Tedi Mazola for drawing the artifacts and part of the plans (my own part in the illustrations includes the drawings in Tables 11 and 14, the maps, part of the site plans, and the photographs, unless otherwise stated). [...] And last, special thanks to my wife Rina for paricipating in all stages of the work in the field and office, for her devotion in proof reading the dissertation and in editing the bibliography. [...] Most of them focused on biblical issues, mainly the search for the route of the exodus and the location of Mount Sinai, or for later ancient remains of the Roman-Byzantine period. [...] C.)5 were discovered on the eastern margin of the valley and in the wadis to the east.