Tsomet Shoket, on the banks of Nahal Hevron (Wadi el-Khulil) in the Be’er Sheva Valley was excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The excavations yielded settlement remains from the Late Chalcolithic period, including buildings, pits, and four subterranean complexes.

Relevant publications:
Alexandrovsky, D. and Rosenberg, D. in press. The ground stone tools assemblage from the Chalcolithic site of Tsomet Shoket. In Be’eri, R. (ed.) The Chalcolithic site of Tsomet Shoket. IAA Reports. Jerusalem.

Alexandrovsky, D., Be’eri, R. and Rosenberg, D. 2021. Above and below, the Late Chalcolithic ground stone tools assemblage of Tsomet Shoket. In: Pedersen, P, Jörgensen-Lindahl, A., Sørenen, M and Richter, T. (eds.) Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways. Access Archaeology series, Archaeopress Publishing Limited, Oxford, pp. 139–156. Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research.

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