Tel Yavne, Areas G1 and G2

During June 2020–December 2021, a salvage excavation was conducted in Area G1 and G2, in the southeastern margins of Tel Yavne (Permit No. A-8656; map ref. 176419–64/641495–588; Fig. 1), as part of a large-scale excavation project in the eastern part of Yavne, prior to construction of new neighborhood 'Yavne east'. The excavation, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by the Israel Land Authority, was directed by E. Haddad, L. Nadav-Ziv, and J. Seligman, with the assistance of H. Torgë and Y. Agmon (senior area supervisors), L. Rauchberger, G. Tal and A. Davidesko (area supervising), Y. Amrani, Z. Lotan, T. Uriel and R. Abu Halaf (administration), T. Harpak (recording and finds processing), M. Kahan, Y. Shmidov and S. Emmanuilov (surveying, drafting, aerial photography and photogrammetry), Y. Gumenny (plans processing and photogrammetry), A. Peretz and D. Gazit (field and aerial photography), I. Jonish (aerial photography and photogrammetry), S. Krispin, A. Tamir and E. Valdman (metal detection), A. Keinan and E. Oren (safety), O. Tsuf, S. Terem and D. Sandhaus (pottery), Y. Gorin-Rosen and R. Lewis-Bloom (glass), M. Ratner, R. Shoef, M. Avrahami and Y. Tirosh Hacohen (conservation), Y. Nagar (physical anthropology), L. Perry Gal and I. Ktalav (archaeozoology), Y. Asscher and Y. Sheizaf (analytical laboratory) and D. Ben-Ami, A. Shadman, Y. Tepper, D. Barkan and I. Radashkovsky from the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Central District . Workers and youth from several schools and premilitary programs participated in the excavations.