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Household archaeology in Ancient Israel and beyond / edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Jennie R. Ebeling, and Laura B. Mazow.

Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Descriptionvi, 452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorYasur-Landau, Assaf.
Other author/creatorEbeling, Jennie R.
Other author/creatorMazow, Laura B.
Other author/creatorAmerican Schools of Oriental Research. Meeting (2008 : Boston, Mass.)
Series Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; v. 50
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 50. ^A689855
Contents Introduction: The past and present of household archaeology in Israel / Assaf Yasur-Landau, Jennie Ebeling, and Laura Mazow -- Understanding houses, households, and the Levantine archaeological record / James W. Hardin -- Household archaeology in Israel : looking into the microscopic record / Ruth Shahack-Gross -- Applying on-site analysis of faunal assemblages from domestic contexts : a case study from the lower city of Hazor / Nimrod Marom and Sharon Zuckerman -- "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 -- A tale of two houses: the role of pottery in reconstructing household wealth and composition / Nava Panitz-Cohen -- 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 -- Household gleanings from Iron I Tel Dan / David Ilan -- Houses and households in settlements along the Yarkon River, Israel, during the Iron Age I : society, economy, and identity / Yuval Gadot -- Early Iron Age domestic material culture in Philistia and eastern Mediterranean Koine / David Ben-Shlomo -- Household archaeology in LHIIIC Tiryns / Philipp Stockhammer -- The archaeology of the extended family : a household compound from Iron II Tell en-Nasbeh / Aaron J. Brody -- Household economies in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah / Avraham Faust -- Household activities at Tel Beersheba / Lily Singer-Avitz -- 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 -- Cult corners in the Aegean and the Lvant / Louise A. Hitchcock -- Varieties of religious expression in the domestic setting / Beth Alpert Nakhai -- A problem of definition : "cultic" and "domestic" contexts in Philistia / Michael D. Press.
General notePapers from a session at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research held in Boston, Mass, Nov. 2008.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [391]-446) and index.
LCCN 2011006136
ISBN9789004206250 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9004206256 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

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