Hamadia

{{Short description|Kibbutz in northern Israel}} {{Infobox Israel village | name = Hamadia | hebname = חמדיה | image = Hamadia 042a.jpg | imgsize = 250px | caption = | founded = 1939<br />1942 (refoundation) | founded_by =Hermonimniks | council = Valley of Springs | country = {{ISR}} | district = north | affiliation = Kibbutz Movement | popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}} | population = {{Israel populations|Hamadya}} | population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}} | pushpin_map=Israel jezreel#Israel |pushpin_mapsize=250|pushpin_label_position=left |coordinates = {{coord|32|31|13|N|35|31|11|E|display=inline,title}} | website = }}

'''Hamadia''' ({{langx|he|חמדיה}}) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley, just north of Beit She'an in northern Israel. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Hamadya}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}

==Name== The kibbutz took its name from al-Hamidiyya, a depopulated Arab village north of the kibbutz named for the sultan of Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II.

==History== The kibbutz was founded in 1939 as part of the Tower and stockade movement. It was re-established in 1942 by the "Hermonim" pioneers, a garin of native-born Israelis who were part of a youth group. thumb|Hamadia. 1946 thumb|Hamadia. 1949

==Archaeology: Hamadiya Neolithic site== The Neolithic site at Kibbutz Hamadiya, known from archaeological literature as '''Hamadiya''', is situated on a terrace of ancient Lake Beisan, 200 metres below sea level,<ref name="Avi-Yonah1978">{{cite book |author= Michael Avi-Yonah |title= Encyclopedia of archaeological excavations in the Holy Land, p. 468 |volume= 2 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=O6ptAAAAMAAJ |year= 1978 |publisher= Prentice-Hall |isbn=978-0-13-275123-0 |access-date=3 May 2011 }}</ref> {{convert|10|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of the prehistorical site of Munhata.<ref name="Hours1994"/> Hamadiya is suggested to date between c. 5800 and 5400 BCE.<ref name="Hours1994"/> Detailed reports have yet to be published.<ref>[http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/paleo_0153-9345_1993_num_19_1_4587 Garfinkel, Y., The Yarmukian Culture in Israel, Paléorient, Volume 19, 19-1, pp. 115-134, 1993]</ref>

Hamadiya is a single-layer archaeological site of about {{convert|100|m2|ha|abbr=on}}, first reported and excavated by Nehemia Zori in 1958, then again by Jacob Kaplan in 1964.<ref name="Jerusalem2005">{{cite book |author= British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem |title= Levant |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EKEsAQAAIAAJ |access-date=3 May 2011 |year= 2005}}</ref> Ovens, pits and fireplaces were found with Yarmukian pottery and an assemblage of many axes, picks, scrapers, "saw" elements{{dubious|It does not seem to be the proper English term.|date=August 2015}} and sickles. Large saw elements indicate possible earlier Neolithic occupation which was suggested to date at least to the early Chalcolithic{{dubious|Seems to be over 1000 years off-target! Chalc. starts 4500 BCE, here it's around 5800 BCE. MOM period 7 also PNA, not Chalc. So, "Pottery Neolithic A"?|date=December 2019}} (MOM period 7). A flint sickle workshop was located close to the site with over 300 sickle blades found.<ref name="Hours1994">{{cite book |author= Francis Hours |author-link= Francis Hours |title= Atlas des sites du Proche Orient (14000-5700 BP)|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KlZtAAAAMAAJ |year= 1994 |publisher= Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen |isbn= 978-2-903264-53-6 |access-date= 3 May 2011 }}</ref>

==Notable people== [[File:GalNevo-0220.jpg|thumb|180px|Gal Nevo]] *Nadav Argaman, head of Shin Bet *Gal Nevo, Olympic swimmer

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Kibbutzim Category:Kibbutz Movement Category:Populated places established in 1939 Category:Populated places established in 1942 Category:Neolithic settlements Category:Neolithic Category:Prehistoric sites in Israel Category:1939 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Category:1942 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Category:Populated places in Northern District (Israel)