Bene Israel
Subtitle: studies in the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron ages offered in honour of Israel Finkelstein
By: edited by Alexander Fantalkin and Assaf Yasur-Landau.
Contributors: Fantalkin, Alexander.; Yasur-Landau, Assaf.; Finkelstein, Israel.
Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East -- v. 31
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9789004152823
Subjects: Bronze age -- Palestine; Iron age -- Palestine; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Palestine; Bronze age -- Middle East; Iron age -- Middle East; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East; Palestine -- Antiquities; Middle East -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Urban land use changes on the southeastern slope of tel Megiddo during the Middle Bronze age / Eran Arie; title: The appearance of rock-cut bench tombs in Iron Age Judah as a reflection of state formation / Alexander Fantalkin; title: Trademarks of the Omride builders? / Norma Franklin; title: Continuity and change in the Late Bronze to Iron Age transition in Israel's coastal plain: a long term perspective / Yuval Gadot; title: Permanent and temporary settlements in the South of the lower Besor region: two case studies / Dan Gazit; title: The socioeconomic implications of grain storage in early Iron Age Canaan: the case of tel Dan / David Ilan; title: A re-analysis of the archaeological evidence for the beginning of the Iron Age I / Yitzhak Meitlis; title: Reassessing the Bronze and Iron Age economy: sheep and goat husbandry in the Southern Levant as a model case study / Aharon Sasson; title: Settlement patterns of Philistine city-states / Alon Shavit; title: Levantine standardized luxury in the late Bronze Age: waste management at tell Atchana (Alalakh) / Amir Sumaka i Fink; title: Desert outsiders: extramural neighborhoods in the Iron Age Negev / Yifat Thareani-Sussely; title: A message in a jug: Canaanite, Philistine, and Cypriot iconography and the "Orpheus jug" / Assaf Yasur-Landau.