Tel Dover (Kh. ed-Duweir) is strategically situated at the southern tip of the Golan, on the northwestern bank of the perennial Yarmuk River, northeast of its confluence with the Jordan River. From July until September 1997, large-scale rescue excavations were conducted at Tel Dover, prior to the planned construction of a dam and water reservoir on the Yarmuk River. This volume focuses on the Late Bronze and Iron Age levels. Stratigraphy and architecture are dealt with in detail and are richly illustrated (chap. 2). Subsequent chapters present ceramic assemblages (chap. 3) and small finds (chap. 4-7) and the remains of mortuary offerings and canid burials (chap. 8). The study is supplemented by appendices on shells, human skeletal remains and petrographic analysis of Iron Age vessels.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

ABBREVIATIONS

PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS OF THE TEL DOVER EXCAVATIONS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SITE

CHAPTER 2: THE EXCAVATION: STRATIGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE OF STRATA VIII AND VII (Amir Golani)

CHAPTER 3: THE CERAMIC ASSEMBLAGES OF STRATA VIII AND VII (Samuel R. Wolff)

CHAPTER 4: THE SMALL FINDS (Samuel R. Wolff, with a contribution by Liat Naeh)

CHAPTER 5: A MITTANIAN CYLINDER SEAL (Diana L. Stein)

CHAPTER 6: STAMP SEAL-AMULETS (Othmar Keel and Stefan Münger)

CHAPTER 7: THE IRON AGE BRONZE BOWLS (Lilly Gershuny)

CHAPTER 8: PASTORAL ECONOMY, MORTUARY OFFERINGS AND CANID BURIALS: THE LATE BRONZE AND IRON AGE FAUNA (Brian Hesse and Edward F. Maher)

CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX I: MARINE SHELLS AND FRESH-WATER BIVALVES (David S. Reese)

APPENDIX II: THE HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS (Yossi Nagar)

APPENDIX III: PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED IRON AGE VESSELS (David Ben-Shlomo)

APPENDIX IV: SELECTED LOCUS AND WALL LISTS – STRATA VIII AND VII (Amir Golani)