Endnote 16 – Why Did the Early Israelites Dig All Those Pits?

These tests were run in conjunction with the Department of Stored Products, Ministry of Agriculture, Bet Dagan, Israel. For a detailed account of each test and its results, see Currid and Avi Navon, “Iron Age Pits and the Lahav (Tell Halif) Grain Storage Project,” forthcoming in BASOR. See also, Currid and Navon, “The Tell Halif (Lahav) Grain Storage Project,” ASOR Newsletter 37:2 (1986), p. 7.