Household archaeology in Ancient Israel and beyond
By: edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Jennie R. Ebeling, and Laura B. Mazow
Contributors: American Schools of Oriental Research. Meeting
Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East -- v. 50
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789004206250
Subjects: Material culture; Iron age; Bronze age; Excavations (Archaelogy); Social archaeology; Households; Congresses; Antiquities; History
Notes: Papers from a session at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research held in Boston, Mass, Nov. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references(p.   ) and index .
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The past and present of household archaeology in Israel / Assaf Yasur-Landau, Jennie Ebeling, and Laura Mazow; title: Understanding houses, households, and the Levantine archaeological record / James W. Hardin; title: Household archaeology in Israel : looking into the microscopic record / Ruth Shahack-Gross; title: Applying on-site analysis of faunal assemblages from domestic contexts : a case study from the lower city of Hazor / Nimrod Marom and Sharon Zuckerman; title: "The kingdom is his brick mould and the dynasty is his wall" : the impact of urbanization on middle Bronze Age households in the southern Levant / Assaf Yasur-Landau; title: A tale of two houses: the role of pottery in reconstructing household wealth and composition / Nava Panitz-Cohen; title: Differentiating between public and residential buildings : a case study from late Bronze Age II Tell es-Safi/Gath / Itzhaq Shai, Aren M. Maeir, Yuval Gadot, and Joe Uziel; title: Household gleanings from Iron I Tel Dan / David Ilan; title: Houses and households in settlements along the Yarkon River, Israel, during the Iron Age I : society, economy, and identity / Yuval Gadot; title: Early Iron Age domestic material culture in Philistia and eastern Mediterranean Koine / David Ben-Shlomo; title: Household archaeology in LHIIIC Tiryns / Philipp Stockhammer; title: The archaeology of the extended family : a household compound from Iron II Tell en-Nasbeh / Aaron J. Brody; title: Household economies in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah / Avraham Faust; title: Household activities at Tel Beersheba / Lily Singer-Avitz; title: The empire in the house, the house in the empire : toward a household archaeology perspective on the Assyrian Empire in the Levant / Virginia Rimmer Herrmann; title: Cult corners in the Aegean and the Lvant / Louise A. Hitchcock; title: Varieties of religious expression in the domestic setting / Beth Alpert Nakhai; title: A problem of definition : "cultic" and "domestic" contexts in Philistia / Michael D. Press.