The survey was carried out across four hills along the edge of the city and 52 sites were documented (Fig. 1; Table 1). The survey area borders on Tel Yoqne‘am, Tel Qira, Horbat Hanut Qira and Horbat Hermesh. Two sites within the current survey area had previously been surveyed (Y. Olami. 1981. Map of Dalia [31], Sites 44, 57). Yoqne‘am is located in the northern part of Ramot Menashe, near the joint between the Carmel ridge and the Izra’el Valley. Numerous springs flow forth from the ravines in the region and since the beginning of history, major trade routes have passed through it.
 
Table 1. The sites in the survey.
Site No.
Map reference
Finds
1
209262/727252
Concentration of flint items
2
209140/727299
Concentration of stones
3
209066/727359
Concentration of stones
4
209202/727222
Concentration of flint items
5
209486/727137
Stones and flint items
6
209332/727042
Wall
7
209355/726984
Stones and flint items
8
209374/727008
Stone heap (Site 57 in the Map of Dalia)
9
209401/726988
Stone heap (Site 57 in the Map of Dalia)
10
209392/726930
Stone heap (Site 57 in the Map of Dalia)
11
209418/726851
Stone heap (Site 57 in the Map of Dalia)
12
209245/726984
Quarry
13
209243/727030
Small rock-hewn winepress
14
209250/727030
Rock-hewn installation
15
209288/727018
Concentration of stones

16
209227/727036
Two Ta‘ankh-type winepresses, a hewn roll-stone and a row of cupmarks (Site 44 in the Map of Dalia)
17
209197/727039
Stone heap
18
209195/727087
Concentration of flint items
19
209227/727113
Hewn cave
20
209230/727107
Ancient game board—depressions hewn in the bedrock
21
209233/727106
Hewn shaft
22
209252/727076
Wall
23
209287/727071
Stone heap
24
209217/727130
Quarry and concentration of flint items
25
209026/727309
Round building (diam. 5 m) and a concentration of flint items nearby
26
209220/727118
Hewn cave
27
209600/727404
Curved wall
28
209395/727458
Concentration of flint items
29
209263/727511
Stone heap
30
209374/727519
Concentration of flint items
31
209600/727480
Wall and quarry
32
209578/727541
Wall
33
209574/727550
Stone heap
34
209627/727686
Stone heap
35
209907/727577
Stone heap
36
209911/727536
Stone heap
37
209890/727538
Stone heap
38
209863/727482
Stone heap
39
209842/727429
Stone heap
40
209827/727391
Concentration of flint items
41
209818/727383
Stone heap
42
209746/727405
Stone heap (length 15 m)
43
210037/728210
Quarry
44
210054/728213
Quarry
45
210295/728170
Quarry
46
210527/728301
Quarry
47
210770/728324
Quarry
48
210762/728365
Quarry and hewn cupmark
49
210551/728475
Quarry
50
209977/728220
Quarry
51
210488/728975
Hewn cave and quarry
52
210485/728987
Quarry
 
The Southern Part of the Survey Area. Twenty-six sites were documented on the southwestern hill of the survey area (1–26; Fig. 2). The following antiquities were documented on top of the hill and along the northwestern slope: the tops of walls (Fig. 3), an enclosure surrounded by a wide wall (width c. 2 m), a cave opening, an ancient game board including two rows of rock hewn depressions, a round building and several stone heaps. Potsherds mostly dating to the Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic periods were collected, as well as a single sherd from the Persian period. Walls delineating cultivation plots and farming terrace walls are visible on the hillsides. Large concentrations of flint debitage and flint artifacts were documented on the northern, western and eastern slopes of the hill. The flint items dated to different periods and noteworthy among them are a hand axe of the Lower Paleolithic period and an adze from the end of the Neolithic or the Chalcolithic periods. The flint artifacts included tools, such as broad flakes, some of which are retouched and date from the Middle Bronze Age until the Iron Age. On the western slope of the hill stone quarries were documented, as well as a round stone whose quarrying was incomplete. In addition, cupmarks and winepresses, including two Ta‘anakh type winepresses dating to the Middle Bronze Age (Fig. 4) were documented.
 
The Center of the Survey Area. Sixteen sites on a hill in the middle of the survey area were documented. Eight of the sites (27–34) are southwest of Horbat Hanut Qira, among them farming terrace walls, the tops of walls that are apparently ancient and built differently than the terrace walls, quarrying marks and concentrations of flint items. Potsherds that mostly dated to the Roman and Byzantine periods were collected on the surface. Eight sites (35–42) were documented south of Horbat Hanut Qira and these were mainly stone heaps, some of which are elongated, possibly because they were piled on top of lines of walls. Flint items and potsherds from the Roman and Byzantine periods were collected.
 
The Northern Part of the Survey Area. Eight sites (43–50) were documented on a hill and its slopes north of Tel Qiri, and building stone quarries were noted in all of them. Large parts of the surveyed area are covered with vegetation that made it difficult to locate ancient remains and it is likely there are other rock-cuttings in the vicinity that were not discerned. Two sites (51, 52) were documented at the top of a hill in the northernmost part of the area, south of Tel Yoqne‘am, including ashlars’ quarries (dimensions of stones 0.40 × 0.45 m) and a blocked cave opening.
 
Numerous concentrations of flint items, which point to knapping and quarrying sites of flint and stone, were documented on a hill in the south of the survey area. These sites date to the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, as well as to the Bronze and Iron Ages. Two Ta‘anakh-type winepresses that date to the Middle Bronze Age were documented in the survey; they were common to the Izra’el Valley and its surrounding regions. Presumably, these winepresses were connected to farmsteads that produced wine, marketed their product, and operated on behalf of a central authority. The location of the winepresses identified in the survey expands the range of distribution of these installations into the region near Tel Yoqne‘am, on the northwestern fringes of the Izra’el Valley. The ceramic artifacts gathered in the survey dated to the Persian, Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. The documented walls, installations, rock-cuttings and stone heaps are indicative of extensive agricultural activity in the region.