Footnote 4 – How Ancient Man First Utilized the Rivers in the Desert

Since 1987, this project has been sponsored by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the Israel Antiquities Authority (formerly called the Israel Department of Antiquities), and supported by grants from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society and the C. Paul Johnson Charitable Foundation. The excavation is affiliated with the American Schools of Oriental Research.