Tel Yavne, Area G6

From August 2020 to November 2021, a salvage excavation was conducted in Area G6 on the southeastern margins of Tel Yavne (Permit No. A-8656; map ref. 176258–299/641371–422; Fig. 1), as part of a large-scale archaeological excavation project in eastern Yavne prior to the construction of new residential neighborhoods. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by the Israel Lands Authority, was directed by E. Haddad, L. Nadav-Ziv and J. Seligman, with the assistance of A. Nagorsky (senior area supervisor), L. Sandberg, A. Dobrinin and J. Vasiutin (area supervision), Y. Amrani, Z. Lotan, T. Uriel and R. Abu Khalaf (administration), T. Harpak (finds processing and documentation), M. Kahan, Y. Shmidov and S. Emmanuilov (surveying and 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 and A. Tamir (metal detection), A. Keinan and E. Oren (safety), D. Sandhaus (Iron Age pottery), O. Tsuf (Roman pottery), S. Terem (Ottoman and British Mandate-era pottery), Y. Gorin-Rosen and R. Lewis-Bloom (glass), M. Ratner, R. Shoef, M. Avrahami and Y. Tirosh Hacohen (conservation), Y. Nagar (physical anthropology), Y. Asscher and Y. Sheizaf (analytical laboratory), A. shadman, D. Barkan, I. Radashkovsky, G. Stern and R. Shalev from the IAA central district, workers from Nablus area and Volunteers .