William Flinders Petrie, Beth-Pelet I (Tell Fara), Publication No. 48 (London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1930). For a synopsis of his career, see Joseph A. Callaway, “Sir Flinders Petrie, Father of Palestinian Archaeology,” BAR 06:06. In 1929 James L. Starkey and G. Lankester Harding also excavated this site (“Beth-Pelet Cemetery,” in Beth-Pelet 2 ed. E. MacDonald, Starkey and Harding, Publication No. 52 [London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1932]).