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Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Israel
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
50
Citations
8678
World Ranking
2807
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Israel Finkelstein is a scholar primarily affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research is situated within the Arts and Humanities, with a strong focus on Archeology. Their work spans several related subfields including Paleontology, Religious Studies, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of archaeological and historical themes. These include Archaeology and Historical Studies, Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies, Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Ancient Egypt and Archaeology, Ancient Near East History, Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History, and technical topics such as Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction.

Recent publications by Israel Finkelstein include:

  • Exotic foods reveal contact between South Asia and the Near East during the second millennium BCE, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant, 2020, Cell
  • Archaeomagnetism in the Levant and Mesopotamia Reveals the Largest Changes in the Geomagnetic Field, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Synchronizing Geomagnetic Field Intensity Records in the Levant Between the 23rd and 15th Centuries BCE: Chronological and Methodological Implications, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Radiocarbon-Dating the Late Bronze Age: Cultural and Historical Considerations on Megiddo and Beyond, 2020, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Eli Piasetzky, Matthew J. Adams, Mario A. S. Martin, Thomas Römer, and Barak Sober.

Israel Finkelstein's work has been published in several venues multiple times. Notable among these are Near Eastern Archaeology, PLoS ONE, the Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research, Tel Aviv, and Palestine Exploration Quarterly.

Best Publications

  • The Bible unearthed : archaeology's new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts

    Israel Finkelstein;Neil Asher Silberman

  • Climate and the Late Bronze Collapse: New Evidence from the Southern Levant

    Dafna Langgut;Israel Finkelstein;Thomas Litt

  • The Archaeology of the United Monarchy: an Alternative View

    Israel Finkelstein

  • Subsistence practices in an arid environment: a geoarchaeological investigation in an Iron Age site, the Negev Highlands, Israel

    Ruth Shahack-Gross;Ruth Shahack-Gross;Israel Finkelstein

  • The archaeology of the Israelite settlement

    Israel Finkelstein

  • Vegetation and Climate Changes during the Bronze and Iron Ages (~3600–600 BCE) in the Southern Levant Based on Palynological Records

    Dafna Langgut;Israel Finkelstein;Thomas Litt;Frank Harald Neumann

  • Absolute Chronology of Megiddo, Israel, in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages: High-Resolution Radiocarbon Dating

    Michael B Toffolo;Eran Arie;Mario A S Martin;Elisabetta Boaretto

  • The Population of Palestine in Iron Age II

    Magen Broshi;Israel Finkelstein

  • Highlands of Many Cultures: The Southern Samaria Survey: The Sites

    William G. Dever;Israel Finkelstein;Zvi Lederman;Shlomo Bunimovitz

  • Radiocarbon dating the Iron Age in the Levant: a Bayesian model for six ceramic phases and six transitions

    Israel Finkelstein;Eli Piasetzky

  • The location of Alashiya: New evidence from petrographic investigation of Alashiyan tablets from el-Amarna and Ugarit

    Yuval Goren;Shlomo Bunimovitz;Israel Finkelstein;Nadav Na'aman

  • Ethnicity and origin of the Iron I settlers in the Highlands of Canaan : Can the real Israel stand up ?

    Israel Finkelstein

  • Large geomagnetic field anomalies revealed in Bronze to Iron Age archeomagnetic data from Tel Megiddo and Tel Hazor, Israel

    Ron Shaar;Ron Shaar;Lisa Tauxe;Hagai Ron;Yael Ebert

  • Iron and bronze production in Iron Age IIA Philistia: new evidence from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

    Adi Eliyahu-Behar;Adi Eliyahu-Behar;Naama Yahalom-Mack;Naama Yahalom-Mack;Sana Shilstein;Sana Shilstein;Alexander Zukerman

  • Dead Sea pollen record and history of human activity in the Judean Highlands (Israel) from the Intermediate Bronze into the Iron Ages (∼2500–500 BCE)

    Dafna Langgut;Frank Harald Neumann;Frank Harald Neumann;Mordechai Stein;Allon Wagner

  • HAS KING DAVID'S PALACE IN JERUSALEM BEEN FOUND?

    Israel Finkelstein;Lily Singer-Avitz;Ze'ev Herzog;David Ussishkin

  • RADIOCARBON-DATED DESTRUCTION LAYERS: A SKELETON FOR IRON AGE CHRONOLOGY IN THE LEVANT

    Israel Finkelstein;Eli Piasetzky

  • The Date of the Settlement of the Philistines in Canaan

    Israel Finkelstein

  • Inscribed in clay : provenance study of the Amarna tablets and other ancient Near Eastern texts

    Yuval Goren;Israel Finkelstein;Nadav Na'aman

  • The Sheshonq I Campaign and the 8th-Century BCE Earthquake-more on the Archaeology and History of the South in the Iron I-IIa

    Alexander Fantalkin;Israel Finkelstein

  • Bible Archaeology or Archaeology of Palestine in the Iron Age? A Rejoinder

    Israel Finkelstein

  • Cinnamaldehyde in early iron age phoenician flasks raises the possibility of levantine trade with South East Asia

    Dvory Namdar;Dvory Namdar;Ayelet Gilboa;Ronny Neumann;Israel Finkelstein

  • Jerusalem in the Persian (and Early Hellenistic) Period and the Wall of Nehemiah

    Israel Finkelstein

  • From nomadism to monarchy: archaeological and historical aspects of Early Israel

    Israel Finkelstein;Yiśraʾel Finḳelshṭayn

  • Temple and Dynasty: Hezekiah, the Remaking of Judah and the Rise of the Pan-Israelite Ideology

    Israel Finkelstein;Neil Asher Silberman

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Fuchs
Markus Fuchs University of Giessen
Elisabetta Boaretto
Elisabetta Boaretto Weizmann Institute of Science
Amotz Agnon
Amotz Agnon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Naomi Porat
Naomi Porat Physical Research Laboratory
Lisa Tauxe
Lisa Tauxe University of California, San Diego
Yves Gallet
Yves Gallet Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Yigal Erel
Yigal Erel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hagai Ron
Hagai Ron Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mordechai Stein
Mordechai Stein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nadin Rohland
Nadin Rohland Harvard University

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