Archaeological research on the Iron Age (1200–500 BC) Levant, a narrow strip of land
bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Desert, has been balkanized into …

The Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath Archaeological Project commenced in 1996 and is one of the largest
and longest continuously running archaeological projects in Israel. As the year 2017 marks …

In this paper we discuss two aspects of olive production in Philistia and the Shephelah
during the Iron Age. Previous studies suggested that olive oil production became important …

More than a century of study of the Philistines has revealed abundant remains of their
material culture. Concurrently, our understanding of the origins, developmental processes …

The bone assemblage from Khirbet Qeiyafa comprises 425 bones (table 11.1). Most of these
were recovered during the second excavation season of 2008 and a smaller number during …

Animals can represent a source of food, or they can be valued for their secondary products,
companionship, and symbolic value. Such reliance on animals is a central component to …

The purpose of this paper is to work toward an approach for the problem of identifying
domestic cult. In order to do this, I will first survey the problem of identifying cultic contexts …

The corpus of bone tools and other objects from Tell Mardikh-Ebla constitutes a basis for
studying the role and development of bone working at this urban centre between 2500 BC …

When asked by Jennifer Pavelko of Brill USA to compile a volume of my past articles, on the
model of the two volumes of Irene Winter's outstanding scholarship published by Brill, I was …

ABSTRACT The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi (1970–1983) identified an
unusually large number of incised bone tubes from Early Bronze Age IIIA contexts in Field …