Yosef Garfinkel (Hebrew: יוסף גרפינקל; born 1956) is an Israeli archaeologist and academic.

Garfinkel specializes in the Protohistoric era of the Near East, the period of time when the world’s earliest village communities were established and the beginning of agriculture took place.

Garfinkel is the author of 34 books and over 180 articles on ancient architecture, farming, water sources, pottery, art, religion and dance.

This site is dated to the early 10th century BC, the period of the biblical King David.

In the 2008 season an inscription was discovered written in ink on a pottery shard in a script which is probably Early Alphabetic/Proto Phoenician.