This article reviews recent studies of pigs in the Iron Age in the southern Levant. The studies
were carried out as part of the European Research Council-funded Ancient Israel project …

How did meat emerge to become such an important feature in Western society? In both
popular and academic literatures, biophysical and political-economic factors are often cited …

The role of the pig in the subsistence system of the Middle East has a long and, in some
cases, poorly understood history. It is a common domesticated animal in earlier …

Near Eastern wild boars possess a characteristic DNA signature. Unexpectedly, wild boars
from Israel have the DNA sequences of European wild boars and domestic pigs. To …

This Element looks critically at migration scenarios proposed for the end of the Bronze Age
in the eastern Mediterranean. After presenting some historical background to the …

Inferences from the absence of evidence to something are common in ordinary speech, but
when used in scientific argumentations are usually considered deficient or outright false …

Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their
story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious …

The paper maintains that during the Iron I and much of the early Iron IIA the Shephelah was
inhabited by independent—or at least autonomous—rural kinship groups that were not …

Subsistence patterns during the Early Bronze Age I through the Iron Age II (3600-586 BCE)
are the topic of many archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological studies. The results of these …

The popular image of metalworking sites in desert settings envisages armies of slaves
engaged in back-breaking labour. This is in conflict with ethnographic evidence indicating …