El Wad Cave and Terrace have been excavated for many years, beginning with its first excavation by Dorothy E. Garrod from Cambridge?? University. Garrod also excavated Tabun Cave, the most famous and important of prehistoric caves in Israel, on which much of the dating in Prehistory is based.
El Wad is currently excavated by the University of Haifa's Prehistoric Archaeology Department, a joint research with Danny Kaufman and Mina Weinstein-Evron. The site is Natufian, and has signs of architecture, the first known art artifact in the southern Levant, agriculture based on gathering grains, the domestication of dogs, and over 100 burials.