Eric H Cline
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 187755 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eric H Cline |
| NOMBRES | Eric H |
| APELLIDO | Cline |
| FIRMA | CLINE E H |
| AFILIACIONES | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4328-1474 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 88 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Love, War, and Diplomacy
Early Appearance of Red-on-Black / Red Ware at Kabri and Achziv
This article explores the distribution of Cypriot Red-on-Black and Red-on-Red (RoB/RoR) ware in the southern Levant during the Middle Bronze I to Late Bronze I. While traditionally associated with Middle Bronze II through Late Bronze I, the study presents evidence suggesting an even earlier appearance of RoB/RoR in the southern Levant, specifically in Tel Kabri Phase DW V, corresponding to the transitional Middle Bronze I–II. The findings challen…
A Brief History of Excavations at Megiddo
This article provides a brief history of the four archaeological expeditions to Megiddo, including the excavation areas and methodology of each, as well as some of their major finds. The survey begins with Gottlieb Schumacher (1903–1905), continues with the University of Chicago (1925–1939), followed by Yigael Yadin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1960 and early 1970s), and ends with a brief overview of the Tel Aviv University Consortium (1994–pr…
After 1177 B.C.
The Decline of Bronze Age Civilisations in the Mediterranean
Are civilizations destined to collapse? Lessons from the Mediterranean Bronze Age
As the world faces multiple crises, lessons from humanity’s past can potentially suggest ways to decrease disruptions and increase societal resilience. From 1200 to 1100 BCE, several advanced societies in the Eastern Mediterranean suffered dramatic collapse. Though the causes of the Late Bronze Age Collapse are still debated, contributing factors may include a “perfect storm” of multiple stressors: social and economic upheaval, earthquake cluster…
Dawn and Descent
The development of ancient Near Eastern archaeology, especially that of the southern Levant, is usually presented through several standard narratives. For American scholars it frequently begins with William F. Albright, who is often referred to as “the father of biblical archaeology.” We undertook to test this narrative by surveying current scholars and using three separate metrics of social network analysis (SNA) on the resulting academic geneal…
From Early Bronze Age domestic plant production to Middle Bronze Age regional exchange economy
Recent excavations at the site of Tel Kabri have brought some extraordinary findings, including the earliest wine cellar in the ancient Near East discovered in 2013. During these excavations, archaeobotanical samples were collected continuously and then processed in 2019. The archaeobotanical studies focus on the Middle Bronze Age palace in Area DW and the Early Bronze Age domestic deposits in Area L. The results confirm the different nature of t…
A Brief Response
I’d like to begin my very brief response by thanking the editors of the journal and all of the respondents, especially those whose comments went beyond the article and addressed the book as a whole.After reading through the thoughtful responses, and noting many of the overlapping points, what came first to my mind is something that Norman Yoffee said about a decade ago, when he and Patricia McAnany compared studying societal collapse to viewing a…
Revisiting 1177 BCE and the Late Bronze Age Collapse
In 2021, a revised and updated version of 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed was published, in order to include all the new data that had appeared in the intervening seven years. As noted there, we now have additional evidence for drought and climate change around 1200 BCE, in regions stretching from Italy and Greece to Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Iran. There is also new textual evidence for both famine and invaders in Ugarit…
Invisible Excavators
The staff members from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago who oversaw the excavations at Megiddo relied upon skilled Egyptian workmen (Quftis) as well as local labourers during their excavations from 1925–1939. However, although there were more than fifty of these Egyptian workmen in all, only a few are mentioned in the preliminary and final publications produced by the project. They are what Stephen Quirke has called ‘hidden han…
B.c.
B. C.
The Woman in the Pith Helmet
This volume celebrates the career of Norma Franklin, an archaeologist who has made important contributions to our understanding of the three key cities of Samaria, Megiddo, and Jezreel in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the Iron Age. The sixteen essays offered herein by Franklin’s colleagues in archaeology and biblical studies are a fitting tribute to the woman in the pith helmet: an indomitable field archaeologist who describes herself as …
Megiddo and the Megiddo Expedition
Digging up Armageddon
An Anatolian-Style Lead Figurine from the Assyrian Colony Period Found in the Middle Bronze Age Palace of Tel Kabri
Excavations during the summer of 2017 in the earlier phases of the courtyard of the palace at Tel Kabri turned up pieces of figurines as well as horn cores within a context of Phase 4 or 5 (late 19th to early 18th centuries b.c.e.). One figurine, portraying two deities, belongs to a type of Anatolian lead figurine known from the Assyrian Colony period. Initial results from Lead Isotope Analysis (LIA) suggest that an Anatolian provenance is indeed…
The Iron Age lower settlement at Kabri revisited
During the 2017 excavation season at Tel Kabri, Iron Age remains were found cutting into the western part of the Middle Bronze Age palace. These remains consisted of a segment of a large structure and a series of sizable pits. Similar Iron Age remains were unearthed during previous soundings in Areas D and F of the excavation and were loosely dated to the Iron Age II. The ceramic assemblage from these soundings demonstrated a disproportionate num…
Technological aspects of Middle Bronze Age II production of pithoi at Tel Kabri, Israel
A study of pithoi production technology at the Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri, Israel, utilized experimental and analytical methods. Pithoi from two phases of the palace were produced using local alluvial raw material, by coil/slab technique, and finished on a slow wheel. Firing at c. 600°C for a short duration seems to be related to the potters’ knowledge of the limitations of the raw material used, further indicating no signifi…
The Social Archaeology of the Levant
The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars in the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, and bioanthropology, the volume presents central debates around a range of archaeological issues, includ…
Megiddo and the Megiddo Expedition
Three Stones Make a Wall
Social Archaeology of the Levant
Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date
The “Sea Peoples” are back in vogue. Once the subject of passionate debate and several conferences a few decades ago, the collapse of the Late Bronze Age is again a hot topic for a variety of reasons, including contemporary discussions regarding climate change. In early November 2014, hard on the heels of the release of my own book 1177 BC and a week after a similar workshop on climate and environment at the end of the Bronze Age took place in Lo…
Ancient Empires
Introduction: what is an (ancient) empire? 1. Prelude to the Age of Ancient Empires 2. The rise of the Age of Ancient Empires 3. Dealing with empires: varieties of responses 4. Beyond the Near East: the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid Persian empires 5. The crucible of history: east meets west 6. Democracy and empire between Athens and Alexander 7. 'Spear-won' empires: the Hellenistic synthesis 8. The western Mediterranean and the rise of Rom…
Poseidon's Horses
Satellite evidence of archaeological site looting in Egypt
New Radiocarbon Dates from Tel Kabri Support a High Middle Bronze Age Chronology
This article presents new radiocarbon evidence from the Middle Bronze Age palatial site of Tel Kabri (Israel). The final phase of the palace (Phase III) can be dated to Middle Bronze Age II, with an end date around the transition from Middle Bronze II to III or very early in Middle Bronze III. According to our 14 C data, the end of Tel Kabri Phase III (and thus the transition from Middle Bronze II to III) can be dated to ~1700 BC. This date is ab…
Rethinking Canaanite Palaces? The Palatial Economy of Tel Kabri during the Middle Bronze Age
Here we explore aspects of Canaanite palatial economy through an analysis of finds from the Middle Bronze Age palace at Tel Kabri, a 34 ha site located in the western Galilee of modern day Israel. The palace was founded in the middle part of the MBA I period, and continued without interruption until an advanced part of the MBA II period. Despite the fact that the Kabri palace was vast (perhaps up to 6000 sq m), functioned as the center of a polit…
Middle Bronze Age Settlement Patterns in the Western Galilee, Israel
During the Middle Bronze Age (MB) II period (ca. 1750–1600 B.C.), Tel Kabri, located in the western Galilee, Israel, was the center of a thriving polity with economic and cultural connections to Egypt, Cyprus, and the Aegean. While Kabri and some neighboring sites have been partially excavated, the rise and fall of the polity has not been clearly understood. We present evidence from the Kabri Archaeological Project (KAP) to reconstruct shifting s…
The silent coast
The Wine Storage Complexes at the Middle Bronze II Palace of Tel Kabri
The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium
Palatial architecture under the microscope
Invisible Excavators
The staff members from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago who oversaw the excavations at Megiddo relied upon skilled Egyptian workmen (Quftis) as well as local labourers during their excavations from 1925–1939. However, although there were more than fifty of these Egyptian workmen in all, only a few are mentioned in the preliminary and final publications produced by the project. They are what Stephen Quirke has called ‘hidden han…
Contested Peripheries in World Systems Theory
The term contested periphery was recently coined by Mitchell Allen for use in his 1997 UCLA dissertation concerned with Philistia, the Neo-Assyrians, and World systems theory (Allen 1997: 49-51, 320-21, Fig. 1.4; cf. also Berquist 1995a, 1995b). Allen identi?ed contested peripheries as border zones where different systems intersect (Allen 1997: 320). Chase-Dunn and Hall immediately adopted this term and de?ned it more formally as a peripheral reg…
Are civilizations destined to collapse? Lessons from the Mediterranean Bronze Age
As the world faces multiple crises, lessons from humanity’s past can potentially suggest ways to decrease disruptions and increase societal resilience. From 1200 to 1100 BCE, several advanced societies in the Eastern Mediterranean suffered dramatic collapse. Though the causes of the Late Bronze Age Collapse are still debated, contributing factors may include a “perfect storm” of multiple stressors: social and economic upheaval, earthquake cluster…
Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date
The “Sea Peoples” are back in vogue. Once the subject of passionate debate and several conferences a few decades ago, the collapse of the Late Bronze Age is again a hot topic for a variety of reasons, including contemporary discussions regarding climate change. In early November 2014, hard on the heels of the release of my own book 1177 BC and a week after a similar workshop on climate and environment at the end of the Bronze Age took place in Lo…
External Relations of Early Iron Age Crete, 1100-600 B.C
Graphic Visualization of Handaxes and Other Artifacts
A Brief History of Excavations at Megiddo
This article provides a brief history of the four archaeological expeditions to Megiddo, including the excavation areas and methodology of each, as well as some of their major finds. The survey begins with Gottlieb Schumacher (1903–1905), continues with the University of Chicago (1925–1939), followed by Yigael Yadin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1960 and early 1970s), and ends with a brief overview of the Tel Aviv University Consortium (1994–pr…
From Early Bronze Age domestic plant production to Middle Bronze Age regional exchange economy
Recent excavations at the site of Tel Kabri have brought some extraordinary findings, including the earliest wine cellar in the ancient Near East discovered in 2013. During these excavations, archaeobotanical samples were collected continuously and then processed in 2019. The archaeobotanical studies focus on the Middle Bronze Age palace in Area DW and the Early Bronze Age domestic deposits in Area L. The results confirm the different nature of t…
New Fragments of Aegean-Style Painted Plaster from Tel Kabri, Israel
During the 2008 and 2009 excavations at Tel Kabri, more than 100 new fragments of wall and floor plaster were uncovered. Approximately 60 are painted, probably belonging to a second Aegean-style wall fresco with figural representations and a second Aegean-style painted floor. A date within the Middle Bronze II period, probably in the 17th century B.C.E., may be suggested for the Kabri frescoes, which makes them significantly earlier than the Tell…
Rich beyond the dreams of Avaris
The excavations at Tell el-Dab c a/Avaris have produced exciting finds for the past 30 years, but none more riveting than the so-called ‘Minoan’ frescoes of the past half-decade. The publication of these fragmentary wall paintings has been commendably fast, but has also involved dramatic changes in the hypotheses put forth by the excavators. The present article attempts to summarize the situation by charting the discoveries announced between 1992…
Chronicle of the Pharaohs
Monkey Business in the Bronze Age Aegean
Two small blue frit monkey figurines inscribed with the cartouche of Amenhotep II have been found in Late Bronze Age contexts at Mycenae and Tiryns in Mainland Greece. The questions of the findspot of the Mycenae figurine and of an Egyptian or a Syrian origin for the Tiryns figurine are addressed. The usefulness of the two figurines for chronological studies and possible explanations for their purpose and presence in Mainland Greece are also addr…
An Unpublished Amenhotep III Faience Plaque from Mycenae
Two fragments of a faience plaque with cartouche of Amenhotep III, found at Mycenae by Taylour in 1968 and 1969, are demonstrated to be fragments from one of at least six, and possibly as many as nine, Egyptian faience plaques found at this site. Eleven such fragments have been unearthed at Mycenae since 1886, all in probable LH IIIB contexts. Taylour's fragments provide valuable information for a new reconstruction of all Egyptian faience plaque…
An Unpublished Amenhotep III Faience Plaque from Mycenae
Two fragments of a faience plaque with cartouche of Amenhotep III, found at Mycenae by Taylour in 1968 and 1969, are demonstrated to be fragments from one of at least six, and possibly as many as nine, Egyptian faience plaques found at this site. Eleven such fragments have been unearthed at Mycenae since 1886, all in probable LH IIIB contexts. Taylour's fragments provide valuable information for a new reconstruction of all Egyptian faience plaque…
Monkey Business in the Bronze Age Aegean
Two small blue frit monkey figurines inscribed with the cartouche of Amenhotep II have been found in Late Bronze Age contexts at Mycenae and Tiryns in Mainland Greece. The questions of the findspot of the Mycenae figurine and of an Egyptian or a Syrian origin for the Tiryns figurine are addressed. The usefulness of the two figurines for chronological studies and possible explanations for their purpose and presence in Mainland Greece are also addr…
Hittite Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean
Some twenty-three objects in the Bronze Age Aegean have been identified as “Hittite” in previous literature. Scholars investigating the nature of the relations between Hittites and Mycenaeans continue to cite one or more of these objects, although many have since been shown to be of non-Hittite origins. In this paper I propose to reexamine the “authenticity” of the Hittite objects reported within the Bronze Age Aegean. The twenty-three objects in…
Aššuwa and the Achaeans
It has been suggested that the inscribed bronze sword found at Hattušas in 1991 is a Mycenaean type B sword which may be used as evidence for Hittites fighting in the Trojan war against the Mycenaeans and for a historical background to the Trojan war. The present independent investigation of the sword indicates that it may well be a variant of an Aegean type B sword, but might reflect Mycenaean influence rather than outright manufacture. Moreover…
Chronicle of the Pharaohs
The End of the Bronze Age
The Aegean Pottery at Megiddo
Approximately 87 whole or fragmentary Aegean vessels were found at the site of Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) during the excavations undertaken by the University of Chicago between 1925 and 1939. Virtually all of these imports are of Late Helladic IIIA or IIIB (14th-12th centuries B. C.) manufacture. Together they form an important corpus of imported material that is systematically studied and presented here for the first time as a unit. Computer-…
Rich beyond the dreams of Avaris
The excavations at Tell el-Dab c a/Avaris have produced exciting finds for the past 30 years, but none more riveting than the so-called ‘Minoan’ frescoes of the past half-decade. The publication of these fragmentary wall paintings has been commendably fast, but has also involved dramatic changes in the hypotheses put forth by the excavators. The present article attempts to summarize the situation by charting the discoveries announced between 1992…
The Amarna Age
An Index to the Late Bronze Age Aegean Pottery from Syria-Palestine . Albert Leonard, Jr
Roman Glass
Near Eastern and Aegean Texts from the Third to the First Millennia BC
Graphic Visualization of Handaxes and Other Artifacts
Canaan and Ancient Israel Gallery Opens at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Res Maritimae
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
This book looks at the 942 artifacts of foreign origin - from Anatolia, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Mesopotamia, and Syro-Palestine - which have been found in the late Bronze Age Aegean area. These objects represent the only group of material in the LBA Aegean that has not disintegrated or disappeared, and as such are unique in providing information about the complex trade networks of the period. Begining with a discussion of trade and transactions in …
Contested Peripheries in World Systems Theory
The term contested periphery was recently coined by Mitchell Allen for use in his 1997 UCLA dissertation concerned with Philistia, the Neo-Assyrians, and World systems theory (Allen 1997: 49-51, 320-21, Fig. 1.4; cf. also Berquist 1995a, 1995b). Allen identi?ed contested peripheries as border zones where different systems intersect (Allen 1997: 320). Chase-Dunn and Hall immediately adopted this term and de?ned it more formally as a peripheral reg…
Poseidon's Horses
Mediterranean Peoples in Transition
The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium
Amenhotep III
The Battles of Armageddon
Amarna Diplomacy
The Sea Peoples and Their World
External Relations of Early Iron Age Crete, 1100-600 B.C
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