The Smithsonian Institution excavation at Tell Jemmeh, Israel, 1970-1990 / edited by David Ben-Shlomo and Gus W. Van Beek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ben-Shlomo, David, editor.

Van Beek, Gus W. (Gus Willard), 1922- editor.

Series:

Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; no. 50.

Smithsonian contributions to anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jemmeh Site (Israel).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Israel.

Israel--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 1087 pages : illustrations (some colored), maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2014.

Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

Preface and acknowledgments

Introduction and Background. 1. Introduction / David Ben-Shlomo and Gus W. Van Beek ; 2. Environmental background of Tell Jemmeh / Gus W. Van Beek

The Architecture, Stratigraphy and Finds From the Different Excavation Fields. 3. Field III : the southeastern step trench / David Ben-Shlomo ; 4. Field II : the northwestern stepped trench / David Ben-Shlomo ; 5. The south trench (ST1) / David Ben-Shlomo ; 6. Field I : the late Bronze Age / David Ben-Shlomo ; 7. Field I Furnace (the kiln), Square KB, and FUR 2-FUR 3 / David Ben-Shlomo ; 8. Results from Field IV : the Iron II and later periods / David Ben-Shlomo ; 9. Bread ovens and related installations / Alexander Zukerman

Pottery Studies. 10. Decorated Canaanite pottery / Gwanghyun Choi ; 11. Imported Cypriot and Mycenaean wares and derivative wares / Celia J. Bergoffen ; 12. Decorated Philistine pottery / David Ben-Shlomo ; 13. Assyrian-style pottery (palace ware) / David Ben-Shlomo ; 14. "East-Greek" and Greek imported pottery of the first millennium BCE / S. Rebecca Martin ; 15. Petrographic analysis of pottery : Chalcolithic to Persian period / David Ben-Shlomo ; 16. Computerized documentation and analysis of pottery vessels / Avshalom Karasik

Small Finds Studies. 17. Ceramic figurines and figurative terra-cottas / David Ben-Shlomo, Ron Gardiner, and Gus Van Beek ; 18. Worked sherds / David Ben-Shlomo and Ron Gardiner ; 19. Ceramic objects : marked pottery, mud objects, and various ceramic artifacts / David Ben-Shlomo ; 20. Clay sealings and seal impressions / David Ben-Shlomo and Othmar Keel ; 21. Non-jewelry metal objects / David Ben-Shlomo and Ron Gardiner ; 22. Metallic and nonmetallic jewelry objects / Amir Golani ; 23. Stone artifacts assemblage from Tel Jemmeh / Yorke M. Rowan ; 24. Egyptian amulets from Tell Jemmeh / Christian Herrmann ; 25. Various finds : faience, glass, bone, ivory, and pumice / David Ben-Shlomo ; 26. Chipped stone assemblage from Tell Jemmeh / Steven A. Rosen and Jalob Vardi ; 27. Scarabs and stamp seals / Othmar Keel ; 28. Cylinder seals : a clay cylinder with cuneiform signs / Wayne Horowitz and Tallay Ornan ; 29. Cylinder seals : a Mitannian cylinder seal with a worshipper and divine images / Tallay Ornan ; 30. Coins : coins from the 1970-1990 excavation seasons at Tell Jemmeh / Donald T. Ariel ; 31. Coins : the Crusader purse from Tell Jemmeh / Robert Kool ; 32. Ostraca from Tell Jemmeh / Haggai Misgav

Subsistence Studies. 33. Temporal trends in animal exploitation : faunal analysis from Tell Jemmeh / Edward F. Maher

Synthesis and Conclusions. 34. The significance of Tell Jemmeh / David Ben-Shlomo

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1067-1087) and index.

OCLC:

881385695