ABSTRACT
There are important archaeological sites in Israel which may not be known to a wider public. One of these may very well be Tell Qeimum (see Figure 75), identified with biblical Yokne˛am (also spelled as Jokneam and Yoqne(am). The tell is a 10-acre site located in the Jezreel Valley about ten miles southwest of Nazareth. The site is included in this study primarily for two reasons: first, it was inhabited almost continuously for nearly 4,500 years, from the Early Bronze Age I (c.3000 BCE) through the Mamluk Period (1500 CE). Second,
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hamlets were related to larger settlements such as Yokne˛am. Known as the Yokne˛am Regional Project, the director of this project, Amnon Ben-Tor, is also the major excavator of the tell.
