Volume I
“Preface” Avi Gopher
Part I: Jacob Kaplan’s Archaeological Legacy
1. “Introduction” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
2. “Kaplan and the Wadi Rabah Culture: The Discovery and Search for its Sources” Ram Gophna
Part II: Pottery Neolithic Sites
3. “Kaplan’s Three Seasons of Excavation at Ha-Bashan Street, Tel Aviv (1950–1951)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
4.1. “The Ritter-Kaplan Excavation at Ha-Bashan (Bodenheimer) Street, Tel Aviv (1979)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
4.2 “The Archaeozoological Finds from Ha-Bashan Street, Tel Aviv (1979)” Moshe Sade
5. “Kaplan’s Excavations at Lod (1951-1952)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
6.1 “The Yarmukian and Lodian/Jericho IX Excavations of the Pottery Neolithic Period at Tel Lod: Layer VI of Area C, Neve Yaraq” Eli Yannai
Appendix A: List of Loci, Area C
Appendix B: Area C: Count of Neolitic Sherds by Loci and Baskets
6.2 “The Flint Tool Assemblage from Strata VII-V of Area C at Tel Lod (Neve Yaraq)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
7. “Kaplan’s Excavation at Wadi Rabah (1952)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
8. “Kaplan’s Excavations at Teluliyot Batasḥi (1955)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
Appendix: Faunal Remains from Teluliyot Batashi” Moshe Sade
Volume II
9. “Looking North—Kaplan’s Excavations at Kefar Gil>Adi (1957 and 1962)” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
“Appendix A: Assemblages by Excavated Squares” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
“Appendix B: Archaeozoological Finds from Kefar Gil>Adi” Moshe Sade
10. “Renewed Excavations at >Ein Ruweihina (>En Hashomer)—Near Kaplan’s Excavation (2003)” Ofer Marder, Dmitry Yegorov, and Howard Smithline
11.1. “Hamadiya in the Central Jordan Valley: A Yarmukian Potter Neolothic Site (1964)” Yosef Gafinkel, Talia Goldman, Danny Rosenberg, Anna Eirikh-Rose, and Zinovi Matskevich
11.2. “Pottery Neolitich (Yarmukian) Faunal Remains from Hamadiya” Liora Kolska Horowitz
Appendix: Faunal Measurements (in mm)
12. “Kaplan’s Excavation at >Ein El-Jarba (1966)” Katharina Streit, Rinat Favis, and Yosef Garfinkel
Part III: Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Sites
13. “Excavations at Slaughterhouse Hill (Giv>At Beit Ha-Mitbahaim), Tel Aviv (1950, 1952) and Nordau Boulevard, Tel Aviv (1950)” Ram Gophna, Yitzhak Paz, and Jacob Kaplan (with a contribution by Eliot Braun)
“Appendix A: A Note on the Lithics of Slaughterhouse Hill” Avi Gopher
“Appendix B: The Archaeozoological Finds from Slaughterhouse Hill” Moshe Sade
14. “Jacotinsky Street (Jamassin) Excavations, Tel Aviv (1950–1951)” Jacob Kaplan, Ram Gophna, and Yitzhak Paz
“Appendix A: The Lithic Assemblage from Jacotinsky Street (Jamassin)” Avi Gopher
15. “The Early Bronze Age Remains from Ha-Bashan Street, Tel Aviv (1950–1951)” Ram Gophna and Yitzhak Paz
16. “Excavations at Rishpon 4, Tel Aviv (1978–1990)” Ram Gophna and Yitzhak Paz
“Appendix: The Lithic Assemblage of Rishpon 4” Avi Gopher
17. “Early Bronze Age Remains at Teluliyot Batashi (1955): Ram Gophna and Yitzhak Paz
18. “Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Groundstone Tool Assemblages from Kaplan’s Excavations in Tel Aviv” Danny Rosenberg
19. “Summary: Chalcolithic Sites in the Vicinity of Tel Aviv and the Settlement System in the Western Ayalon Basin” Ram Gophna and Yitzhak Paz
20. “Summary: Early Bronze Settlement in the Western Yarqon-Ayalon Basins” Yitzhak Paz and Ram Gophna
Part IV: Overview
21. “Discussion and Summary of J. Kaplan’s and H. Ritter-Kaplan’s Pottery Neolithic Excavations” Avi Gopher and Ruth Eyal
“Epilogue” Avi Gopher
Appendix to Chapter 3: Hafirot B’Rehov Ha-Bashan, Tel Aviv