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Cohen, “Kadesh-Barnea: A Fortress from the Time of the Judean Kingdom,” Israel Museum Publication (1983), p. xvii.

Aharoni et al., “The Ancient Desert Agriculture of the Negev V: An Israelite Agricultural Settlement at Ramat Matred,” IEJ 10 (1960), pp. 97–111.

Glueck, “The First Campaign at Tell el-Kheleifeh (Ezion-Geber),” BASOR 71 (1938), p. 14; BASOR 79 (1940), pp. 17–18.

Woolley and Lawrence, “The Wilderness of Zin,” Palestine Exploration Fund Annual III (1914–15), p. 61.

Horvat Mesora, Horvat Ritma, Horvat Nahal Raviv, and the fortress opposite Atar Haro‘a.

Examples are Mesad Hatira, Horvat Har Boqer, Horvat Ramat Boqer, Mesad Refed, Mesad Nahal Nafha, Mesad Har Sa’ad, Mesad Mishor Hamah.

Cohen, “Mesudat Nahal Aqrav,” IEJ 34 (1984), p. 204. I was assisted in this excavation by M. Herman, Y. Yisrael, N. Sneh, Y. Lender, D. Nachlieli, Iris Elder and B. Steltzer. The surveying was carried out by M. Feist, I. Varkin, E. Palepa and Nellie Steltzer. Financial aid was provided by the National Council for Research and Development of the Ministry of Science and Development.

For citations see Rudolph Cohen, “The Iron Age Fortresses in the Central Negev,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) 236 (1980), pp. 61–79. The material presented here is part of the author’s doctoral research on “The Settlements of the Central Negev,” supervised by Prof Benjamin Mazar and the late Yigael Yadin.

Beno Rothenberg, Negev, Archaeology in the Negev and the Arabah, (Ramat Gan, Israel, 1967), pp. 71–79.