{"title":"Peripheral Concerns: Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant, by Susan L. Cohen. New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology. Sheffield: Equinox, 2016. xiv + 188 pp., figs. Hardcover $100.","authors":"F. Höflmayer","doi":"10.1086/702936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/702936","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/702936","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48556524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age, edited by Felix Höflmayer and Ricardo Eichmann. Orient-Archäologie 31. Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf, 2014. 328 pp., illustrations and tables. Hardcover €69.80.","authors":"A. Joffe","doi":"10.1086/702967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/702967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/702967","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42558075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Troy: Myth, City, Icon, by Naoise Mac Sweeney. Archaeological Histories. Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xvi + 185 pp., figs., maps, plans. Hardback $88; paperback $23.50.","authors":"T. Bryce","doi":"10.1086/702932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/702932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/702932","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45485671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article highlights the results of five excavation seasons at Tel Yaqush, Israel, conducted between the 1989 and 2000 on behalf of The Oriental Institute at The University of Chicago. Tel Yaqush was a medium-sized village, inhabited during the entire Early Bronze Age period, from the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia b.c.e. The excavations exposed a dense settlement begun in the Early Bronze Age (EB) I, which ended in a severe conflagration. Apparently rebuilt at the beginning of EB II, the village remained a small site and technically non-urban throughout the period. Destroyed at the end of EB II, it was renewed in EB III, coinciding with the arrival of people bearing the Khirbet Kerak Ware ceramic tradition. This preliminary report includes new observations following recent studies of Tel Yaqush finds, including a new sequence of 14C dates from EB I to III (published in detail elsewhere). The excavation results summarized here reveal the unique role Tel Yaqush played during the shift to urbanism, and its contribution to our understanding of Early Bronze Age village society in the central Jordan Valley.
{"title":"Tel Yaqush—An Early Bronze Age Village in the Central Jordan Valley, Israel","authors":"Yael Rotem, M. Iserlis, F. Höflmayer, Y. Rowan","doi":"10.1086/703393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703393","url":null,"abstract":"This article highlights the results of five excavation seasons at Tel Yaqush, Israel, conducted between the 1989 and 2000 on behalf of The Oriental Institute at The University of Chicago. Tel Yaqush was a medium-sized village, inhabited during the entire Early Bronze Age period, from the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia b.c.e. The excavations exposed a dense settlement begun in the Early Bronze Age (EB) I, which ended in a severe conflagration. Apparently rebuilt at the beginning of EB II, the village remained a small site and technically non-urban throughout the period. Destroyed at the end of EB II, it was renewed in EB III, coinciding with the arrival of people bearing the Khirbet Kerak Ware ceramic tradition. This preliminary report includes new observations following recent studies of Tel Yaqush finds, including a new sequence of 14C dates from EB I to III (published in detail elsewhere). The excavation results summarized here reveal the unique role Tel Yaqush played during the shift to urbanism, and its contribution to our understanding of Early Bronze Age village society in the central Jordan Valley.","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":"381 1","pages":"107 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/703393","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41477807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Klingbeil, M. Hasel, Y. Garfinkel, Néstor H. Petruk
The article presents four decorated epigraphic bullae unearthed in the Level III destruction at Lachish during the 2014 season, focusing on the epigraphic, iconographic, and historical aspects of the seal impressions.
{"title":"Four Judean Bullae from the 2014 Season at Tel Lachish","authors":"M. Klingbeil, M. Hasel, Y. Garfinkel, Néstor H. Petruk","doi":"10.1086/703122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703122","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents four decorated epigraphic bullae unearthed in the Level III destruction at Lachish during the 2014 season, focusing on the epigraphic, iconographic, and historical aspects of the seal impressions.","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":"381 1","pages":"41 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/703122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44088473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ehud Weiss, Y. Mahler-Slasky, Y. Melamed, Zvi Lederman, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Shawn Bubel, D. Manor
In contrast with the relatively rich documentation from the el-Amarna archive related to the main city-states of the southern Levant in the Amarna Age (Late Bronze Age IIA; 14th century b.c.e.), archaeological data from these sites is still wanting. This unfortunate situation highlights the importance of the ca. 60,000-item plant collection from the recently exposed Late Bronze Age IIA palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh. Room L1505 in the palace—apparently a pantry due to its contents of foodstuffs and vessels for food preparation and consumption—contained eight deposits of carbonized crop plants. Deposits of almost pure grains and very low numbers of weed seeds were found, indicating that these stored food plants were ready to be used in food preparation. Of special interest is the presence of a sizeable amount of two rare pulses in Levantine archaeobotany—fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) and Cyprus vetch (Lathyrus ochrus)—only found in two other Bronze Age royal contexts: Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt and the Late Minoan II Unexplored Mansion in Knossos. Thus, in addition to attesting to the agricultural practices and culinary preferences of a Canaanite ruling court during the Amarna Age, this botanical assemblage also hints at prestigious royal gift exchanges of exotic food plants.
{"title":"Foreign Food Plants as Prestigious Gifts: The Archaeobotany of the Amarna Age Palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel","authors":"Ehud Weiss, Y. Mahler-Slasky, Y. Melamed, Zvi Lederman, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Shawn Bubel, D. Manor","doi":"10.1086/703342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703342","url":null,"abstract":"In contrast with the relatively rich documentation from the el-Amarna archive related to the main city-states of the southern Levant in the Amarna Age (Late Bronze Age IIA; 14th century b.c.e.), archaeological data from these sites is still wanting. This unfortunate situation highlights the importance of the ca. 60,000-item plant collection from the recently exposed Late Bronze Age IIA palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh. Room L1505 in the palace—apparently a pantry due to its contents of foodstuffs and vessels for food preparation and consumption—contained eight deposits of carbonized crop plants. Deposits of almost pure grains and very low numbers of weed seeds were found, indicating that these stored food plants were ready to be used in food preparation. Of special interest is the presence of a sizeable amount of two rare pulses in Levantine archaeobotany—fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) and Cyprus vetch (Lathyrus ochrus)—only found in two other Bronze Age royal contexts: Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt and the Late Minoan II Unexplored Mansion in Knossos. Thus, in addition to attesting to the agricultural practices and culinary preferences of a Canaanite ruling court during the Amarna Age, this botanical assemblage also hints at prestigious royal gift exchanges of exotic food plants.","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":"381 1","pages":"83 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/703342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47389720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wandering Arameans: Arameans outside Syria; Textual and Archaeological Perspectives, edited by Angelika Berlejung, Aren M. Maeir, and Andreas Schüle. Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017. x + 298 pp., figs. Paperback €58.","authors":"P. Feinman","doi":"10.1086/702931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/702931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/702931","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43074743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pharaoh’s Land and Beyond: Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors, edited by Pearce Paul Creasman and Richard H. Wilkinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xx + 368 pp., 79 figs. Hardcover $39.95.","authors":"Danielle Candelora","doi":"10.1086/702929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/702929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/702929","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47665002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front Cover","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/704639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704639","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/704639","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47990706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
From the Seleucid period onward, substantial transformations occurred in the ceramic assemblages from Qizlar Qalʾeh on the Gorgan Plain and ancient Merv (modern Gyaur Kala). Using quantitative and archaeometric analyses, we assess and compare modifications in vessel repertoires, production techniques, and material sources across both sites to understand the nature and chronology of these changes. Similar technological developments are observed at Qizlar Qalʾeh and Merv, and are examined with regard to a potential Hellenistic reception in the ceramic material. Variations in the chronological distribution of innovations and assemblage composition help us to elucidate the neighborhood relations between eastern Iran and western Central Asia at this time. Our comparisons point toward a common cultural environment for both sites especially during the Early Parthian period, which is demonstrated in the many analogies of manufacturing techniques and vessel shapes. At the same time, we see different continuing local traditions, highlighting the flexible mode in which ceramic repertoires are adapted to the changing requirements under Hellenistic rule.
从塞琉古时期开始，在高干平原的奇兹拉·加尔·哈赫和古代梅尔夫(现代的焦尔·卡拉)的陶瓷组合中发生了实质性的变化。通过定量和考古分析，我们评估和比较了两个遗址在器皿、生产技术和材料来源方面的变化，以了解这些变化的性质和年代。在Qizlar Qal - allah eh和Merv观察到类似的技术发展，并对陶瓷材料中潜在的希腊化接收进行了检查。在创新和组合组成的时间分布上的变化有助于我们阐明这一时期伊朗东部和中亚西部之间的邻里关系。我们的比较指出了两个遗址共同的文化环境，特别是在早期帕提亚时期，这在制造技术和容器形状的许多类比中得到了证明。同时，我们看到不同的延续的地方传统，突出了陶瓷的灵活模式，以适应希腊统治下不断变化的要求。
{"title":"Correlated Change: Comparing Modifications to Ceramic Assemblages from Qizlar Qalʾeh, Iran, and Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan, during the Seleucid and Parthian Periods","authors":"G. Puschnigg, Maria Daghmehchi, J. Nokandeh","doi":"10.1086/703394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703394","url":null,"abstract":"From the Seleucid period onward, substantial transformations occurred in the ceramic assemblages from Qizlar Qalʾeh on the Gorgan Plain and ancient Merv (modern Gyaur Kala). Using quantitative and archaeometric analyses, we assess and compare modifications in vessel repertoires, production techniques, and material sources across both sites to understand the nature and chronology of these changes. Similar technological developments are observed at Qizlar Qalʾeh and Merv, and are examined with regard to a potential Hellenistic reception in the ceramic material. Variations in the chronological distribution of innovations and assemblage composition help us to elucidate the neighborhood relations between eastern Iran and western Central Asia at this time. Our comparisons point toward a common cultural environment for both sites especially during the Early Parthian period, which is demonstrated in the many analogies of manufacturing techniques and vessel shapes. At the same time, we see different continuing local traditions, highlighting the flexible mode in which ceramic repertoires are adapted to the changing requirements under Hellenistic rule.","PeriodicalId":45895,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research","volume":"381 1","pages":"21 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/703394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42049003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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