Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah : : Renewed Excavations 1990-2000: The Iron Age / / Tzvi Lederman, Shlomo Bunimovitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Bunimovitz, Shlomo,; Lederman, Tzvi,
• MitwirkendeR: Boaretto, Elisabetta,; Brown, Emmett,; Bunimovitz, Shlomo,; Gilboa, Ayelet,; Golani, Amir,; Goren, Yuval,; Griffith, Thimothy,; Hesse, Brian,; Kletter, Raz,; Lederman, Zvi,; Liphschitz, Nili,; Mahler-Slasky, Yael,; Manor, Dale W.,; McCarter, P. Kyle,; Orlev, Nir,; Piasetzki, Eli,; Rose, Jeffrey I.,; Sebbane, Michael,; Sharon, Ilan,; Sweeney, Deborah,; Vaughn, Andrew,; Weiss, Ehud,; Weitzman, Steven,; Zadok, Ran,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (806 p.)

Excavations at Beth-Shemesh are actually a story within a story. On the one hand, they are the story of the archaeology of the Land of Israel in a nutshell: from the pioneering days of the Palestine Exploration Fund, through the "Golden Age" of American biblical archaeology, to current Is...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• EXPEDITION STAFF
• VOLUME I
• PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
• Chapter 1 A TALE OF THREE EXPEDITIONS: TEL BETH-SHEMESH EXCAVATORS, EXCAVATIONS AND SITE REPORTS IN CONTEXT
• Chapter 2 ARCHAEOLOGY OF A BORDER COMMUNITY
• PART TWO: STRATEGY AND METHODOLOGY
• Chapter 3 STRATEGY, GOALS AND STRATIGRAPHICAL SYNOPSIS
• Chapter 4 DATA ACQUISITION, RECORDING AND MANAGEMENT
• PART THREE: THE LAST DAYS OF BETH-SHEMESH
• Chapter 5 EPILOGUE: WATER DRAWERS AND VICIOUS NEIGHBORS LEVEL 1: IRON IIC CA. 650-635 BCE
• PART FOUR: EARLY IRON AGE VILLAGE
• Chapter 6 A PEASANT COMMUNITY ON THE PHILISTINE BORDER LEVELS 6-4: IRON I CA. 1150-950 BCE
• Chapter 7 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IN THE EARLY IRON AGE AT TEL BETH-SHEMESH
• Chapter 8 CROSSING THE BORDER WITH SAMSON: BETH-SHEMESH AND THE BIBLE'S GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION
• PART FIVE: THE STATE AT BETH-SHEMESH
• Chapter 9 ROYAL INTERVENTION: FROM VILLAGE TO ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER LEVEL 3: IRON IIA CA. 950-790 BCE
• Chapter 10 THE LITHIC ASSEMBLAGE
• Chapter 11 FROM VILLAGE TO STATE: CHANGES IN THE ANIMAL ECONOMY OF BETH-SHEMESH DURING THE IRON AGE
• VOLUME II
• PART SIX: OLIVE-OIL PRODUCERS' TOWN
• Chapter 12 "YOUR COUNTRY IS DESOLATE, YOUR CITIES ARE BURNED WITH FIRE:" THE DEATH OF A JUDAHITE BORDER TOWN LEVEL 2: IRON IIB CA. 790-701 BCE
• Chapter 13 A PRIEST'S HOUSE AT BETH-SHEMESH? AN INCISED qdš BOWL
• Chapter 14 lmlk AND OFFICIAL SEAL IMPRESSIONS
• PART SEVEN: COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES
• Chapter 15 ANTHROPOMORPHIC AND ZOOMORPHIC FIGURINES AND HOLLOW VESSELS
• Chapter 16 IRON AGE ARTIFACTS
• Chapter 17 THE IRON AGE JEWELRY
• Chapter 18 LOOM WEIGHTS
• Chapter 19 hmm GAMING BOARD
• Chapter 20 THE NAME "BETH-SHEMESH" AND THE TOPONOMY OF THE REGION AROUND TEL BETH-SHEMESH
• Chapter 21 ARCHAEOBOTANICAL REMAINS
• PART EIGHT: RADIOCARBON STUDIES
• Chapter 22 TEL BETH-SHEMESH RADIOCARBON ANALYSES: A COMMENTARY
• Chapter 23 RADIOCARBON DATING OF THE IRON AGE STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE
• Chapter 24 RADIOCARBON DATING AT TEL BETH-SHEMESH: A SECOND LOOK
• PART NINE: DATA IN CONTEXT
• MAIN OCCUPATIONAL UNITS-CONTEXT AND CONTENTS
• LAYER LIST
• FEATURE LIST