to the results of the excavations and prolongs the process of gaining information on a site. For example, the initial publication of the Ashkelon excavations did not come until after twenty-five years; Kathleen Kenyon’s final report from Jericho waited some thirty years; and the Dead Sea Scroll fragments from Cave 4 took over forty years. Formation Processes Chart adapted from Michael Schiffer’s Behavioral Archeology: Studies in Archaeology (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan