Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

6/1/1992 - 11/30/1994

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$45,268.00 (approved)
$45,268.00 (awarded)


Subterranean Settlement and Society in the Negev Desert (Israel), ca. 4500-3500 B.C.

FAIN: RO-22465-92

Hebrew Union College, New York (New York, NY 10012-1105)
Thomas E. Levy (Project Director: October 1991 to June 1995)

To support excavation and study of a complex of subterranean chambers at Shiqmim, a Chalcolithic site in the Negev Desert of Israel, for the light these underground rooms may shed on early human settlement in the area.