Ramat Bet Shemesh Site 94/10: First Steps for the Understanding of Social Space Organization in Rural Hasmonean Shephelah – a View from Naḥal Yarmut

During the last decades, Ramat Bet Shemesh was extensively excavated due to a vast enlargement of the city of Bet Shemesh in the heart of the Shephelah. Surveys and hundreds of salvage excavations shed new light on the settlement history of the area (see, e.g., Dagan 2010; Dagan 2011; Khalaily 1996; Lipschits et al. 2014; Meir and Lipschits 2017; Sandhaus 2021; Sandhaus and Kreimerman 2017; Sandhaus 2018; Shalom and Lipschits 2020). This paper, warmly dedicated to our friend and colleague Gabriel Mazor, aims to get a glimpse of the Hasmonean occupation (late 2nd – first half of 1st century BC) in