Editing Adullam (section)

== Modern period ==
In 1957, the establishment of the ''Adullam region'' ({{langx|he|חבל עדולם}}) began, a settlement area comprising over 100,000 dunams (25,000 acres),<ref>{{Harvnb|Encyclopaedia Judaica|1971|p=311 (s.v. Adullam Region)}}</ref> and bearing the name of the biblical city.<ref>Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 71, {{ISBN|965-220-186-3}}</ref> Near the mound, north of it, [[Aderet, Israel|Moshav Aderet]] was established in 1958.

Surveys were conducted on the site in the years 1992 and 1999. As late as 2003, the [[Archaeology of Israel|archaeological]] site of Adullam, both, Upper and Lower, had not been excavated,<ref>{{Harvnb|Chapmann III|Taylor|2003|p=105}}</ref> but by September 2015, an excavation to a depth of 0.2 m in six squares of equal size was conducted in the surface of the Upper ruin, in hopes of determining the extent of the settlement at the site during the various periods from the relative distribution of the pottery.<ref name="IAA2017"/> The gathered pottery sherds found ''in situ'' dated from the [[Early Bronze Age]] to the Ottoman period.<ref>{{Harvnb|Radashkovsky|Liraz|2017|p=2}}</ref>