Judea Samaria and the Golan – the archaeological survey of 1968
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The archaeological survey of Judea and Samaria and the Golan in 1968 or as it was called the "Emergency Survey" is the first comprehensive archaeological survey that was conducted in these areas.[1]
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After The Six Day War, for the first time Israeli archaeologists had an opportunity to research these areas. They had information only about the ancient site located at the Golan region from Gottlieb Schumacher's book written at the end of the 19th century. In Judea and Samaria, with few exceptions, no sites were examined or identifications were incomplete.[1]
The survey in the area began several months after the end of the Six Day War, due to the feeling that these areas would be returned to Jordan, Egypt and Syria as soon as possible. The archaeologist Avraham Biran who led the survey wrote: It was "a sort of lightning strike that discovered sites about which nothing was known."[1] Israel Antiquities Authority, the IDF, the Israel Police with many volunteers joined to help carry out the survey. Completion surveys were carried out in the Golan, the Samaria Mountains, North Sinai and the Jewish sites in the south of Mount Hebron.
To carry out the survey, the areas were divided into five sections with a responsible archaeologist per area.
Land of Judah – Moshe Kochavi.
The Judean Desert and the Jericho Valley – Pessah Bar-Adon
Land of Benjamin and Mount Ephraim – Zechariah Kalai
Land of Ephraim and Manasseh – Ram Gophna and Yosef Porat
The Golan – Claire Epstein and Shmarya Guttman