Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0393
Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory
{"title":"When the Cemetery Becomes Political: Dealing with the Religious Heritage in Multi-Ethnic Regions ed. by T. Kruse, H. Faustmann, and S. Rogge (review)","authors":"Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"273 1","pages":"393 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77575512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0343
Grace K. Erny, M. Godsey
{"title":"Scholarly Networks, Gender Sociology, and Knowledge Production in Aegean Survey and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology","authors":"Grace K. Erny, M. Godsey","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"343 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75008031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0240
D. Ben‐Shlomo
abstract:The article discusses Philistine iconography and figurative material culture in Philistia during the Iron Age. The primary archaeological evidence is surveyed, highlighting significant human, zoomorphic, and vegetative motifs. The different traditions and sources reflected by the figurative objects are also discussed. In addition, the archaeological contexts of these objects are surveyed, whether domestic, public, or related to temples or other contexts. Finally, various aspects related to the nature of the Philistine society will be evaluated according to the figurative material culture.
{"title":"Philistine Society as Revealed by Its Iconography and Figurative Material Culture","authors":"D. Ben‐Shlomo","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0240","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The article discusses Philistine iconography and figurative material culture in Philistia during the Iron Age. The primary archaeological evidence is surveyed, highlighting significant human, zoomorphic, and vegetative motifs. The different traditions and sources reflected by the figurative objects are also discussed. In addition, the archaeological contexts of these objects are surveyed, whether domestic, public, or related to temples or other contexts. Finally, various aspects related to the nature of the Philistine society will be evaluated according to the figurative material culture.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"240 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82049241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0293
L. Hitchcock
abstract:This contribution aims to understand the history and function of a rectangular structure, probably domestic in nature and located in the early Philistine sector of Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Tell es-Safi/Gath is one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis, located in modern Israel, mentioned in the Old Testament, and popularly associated with the legendary giant Goliath. The understanding of this building is achieved through presenting a building biography. This will include a discussion of the building's complicated construction history, construction styles, associated features, and later disturbances. Although there is a substantial amount of research on object biography, most of that work deals with the reuse and modification or design of contemporary buildings, or megalithic monuments of the European prehistoric eras. A building biography situates the Area A structure within its role in preserving early Philistine identity, history, memory, and imbuing the landscape with symbolic meanings.
{"title":"Architectural Biography in Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath: From Unknown Unknowns to Unknown Knowns and Known Knowns, in Order to Arrive at the Known Unknowns","authors":"L. Hitchcock","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0293","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This contribution aims to understand the history and function of a rectangular structure, probably domestic in nature and located in the early Philistine sector of Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Tell es-Safi/Gath is one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis, located in modern Israel, mentioned in the Old Testament, and popularly associated with the legendary giant Goliath. The understanding of this building is achieved through presenting a building biography. This will include a discussion of the building's complicated construction history, construction styles, associated features, and later disturbances. Although there is a substantial amount of research on object biography, most of that work deals with the reuse and modification or design of contemporary buildings, or megalithic monuments of the European prehistoric eras. A building biography situates the Area A structure within its role in preserving early Philistine identity, history, memory, and imbuing the landscape with symbolic meanings.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"91 1","pages":"293 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89962959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0364
Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver
{"title":"United in Patriarchy? A View from across the (Aegean) Pond","authors":"Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"31 16","pages":"364 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72408396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0317
J. Chadwick
abstract:This study examines selected finds from three archaeological periods at Tell es-Safi in Israel, confidently identified as biblical Gath, the capital of the Philistine pentapolis. The article describes selected archaeological finds from the final period of Philistine occupation of the city in the ninth century BCE, from the period of the site's abandonment, and from the period of the Judahite town at the site in the late eighth century BCE. The discussion is accented with passages from the Hebrew Bible. Philistine Gath was destroyed by the Aramean forces of Hazael of Damascus, ca. 830 BCE, and dramatic evidence of that attack and destruction is shared. Evidence of the powerful earthquake of the mid-eighth century BCE is also related. Discoveries from the late eighth-century BCE town we call Judahite Gath are laid forth, as well as the signs of the town's destruction by the Assyrian forces of Sennacherib in 701 BCE.
{"title":"When Gath of the Philistines Became Gath of Judah: Dramatic Glimpses of Biblical Archaeology","authors":"J. Chadwick","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0317","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This study examines selected finds from three archaeological periods at Tell es-Safi in Israel, confidently identified as biblical Gath, the capital of the Philistine pentapolis. The article describes selected archaeological finds from the final period of Philistine occupation of the city in the ninth century BCE, from the period of the site's abandonment, and from the period of the Judahite town at the site in the late eighth century BCE. The discussion is accented with passages from the Hebrew Bible. Philistine Gath was destroyed by the Aramean forces of Hazael of Damascus, ca. 830 BCE, and dramatic evidence of that attack and destruction is shared. Evidence of the powerful earthquake of the mid-eighth century BCE is also related. Discoveries from the late eighth-century BCE town we call Judahite Gath are laid forth, as well as the signs of the town's destruction by the Assyrian forces of Sennacherib in 701 BCE.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"317 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81598825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0361
T. Tartaron
{"title":"Probing the Gendered History of Aegean Survey Archaeology","authors":"T. Tartaron","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"361 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85552161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0356
T. Leppard
{"title":"Power and Gender in Aegean Archaeology (and Beyond)","authors":"T. Leppard","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"228 1","pages":"356 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74857688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0259
S. Frumin
abstract:The present study explores patterns in choices and use of staple cereals and fruits through the Late Bronze Age and Iron Ages to address the level of Philistine "commonality" with other populations in the region. Analysis of the relevant archaeobotanical data from 34 settlements shows that the Philistines exhibit cultural continuity in patterns of plant use with Late Bronze Age southern Canaan, and with the Shephelah region especially. The study also unravels, for the first time, differences in choice and use of crops between the Philistines and their neighbors during the early Iron Age. In addition, analysis of the spatial spread of date palm fruits in the region shows their localized presence and limited exploitation in the Iron Age southern Levant. The three main results build a holistic picture of the conservation of the Canaanite economy in a "refugium" in Philistia that later spread into Judah and Israel.
{"title":"Cereals and Fruits of the Philistines: Signs of Territorial Identity and Regional Involvement","authors":"S. Frumin","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0259","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The present study explores patterns in choices and use of staple cereals and fruits through the Late Bronze Age and Iron Ages to address the level of Philistine \"commonality\" with other populations in the region. Analysis of the relevant archaeobotanical data from 34 settlements shows that the Philistines exhibit cultural continuity in patterns of plant use with Late Bronze Age southern Canaan, and with the Shephelah region especially. The study also unravels, for the first time, differences in choice and use of crops between the Philistines and their neighbors during the early Iron Age. In addition, analysis of the spatial spread of date palm fruits in the region shows their localized presence and limited exploitation in the Iron Age southern Levant. The three main results build a holistic picture of the conservation of the Canaanite economy in a \"refugium\" in Philistia that later spread into Judah and Israel.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"259 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82690988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0386
Juan Manuel Tebes
{"title":"The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity, Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name and Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God","authors":"Juan Manuel Tebes","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83926314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}