L Sapir‐hen
Biographic Data
| ID | 915865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Sapir‐hen |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sapir‐hen |
| SIGNATURE | HEN L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6184-4560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Nahal Yarmuth 38: A PPNB and PN Site in Central Israel
Cultic Perceptions of Pigs and Goats in the Hellenistic Societies of the Southern Coastal Levant: Textual and Material Evidence
The Greek inscriptions discovered on Delos ascribed to (former) inhabitants of Ashkelon and Yavneh may offer insight into the ritual customs practiced in these regions. Noteworthy instances of such inscriptions, dating back to the 2nd and early 1st centuries BCE, explicitly prohibit the sacrifice of either goats or both goats and pigs. In this paper, we endeavour to elucidate both the meaning of these inscriptions and the ritual practices associa…
Animal Economy at Megiddo: From the Middle Bronze III to the Iron I
This paper explores trends in animal economy in two neighborhoods in Megiddo, between the MB III, when the palace was established in the northwest of the tell, and the Late Iron Age I, when the city was destroyed. Results show that throughout this time span, Area K inhabitants were engaged with production activities, like herding and ploughing, while Area H inhabitants, located near the palace, were provided with animals and their products. At th…
Crisis in motion: The final days of Iron Age I Megiddo
The destruction of Iron I Megiddo in the early 10th century BCE was a momentous event in the history of the southern Levant. It marked an abrupt break in the long cultural development of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. Despite extensive field research, essential questions related to this event remain unanswered, especially regarding the processes that took place in the city immediately before its destruction. In this article, findings from recen…
Identifying Cultural Habits and Economical Preferences in the Islamic Period, Mount Zion, Jerusalem
Archaeological and historical sources describe differently the course of events that occurred during the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. Was the transition from the Byzantine to the Islamic period a short and dramatic event or a long and steady process? This study aims to examine the Islamic cultural influences over Jerusalem during the Byzantine/Umayyad period and later post-earthquake of the 8th century CE. Thus, we carried out a study of Mount …
A Cache of Astragali from Tel Nagila
This paper presents a cache of 31 astragali from the site of Tel Nagila, dating to the Middle Bronze Age. This is the earliest known cache of astragali from the Southern Levant outside tombs, and may be the forebearer of the later caches found in cultic contexts in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. This paper presents the context in which the cache was found, adjacent to a tower that functioned as part of the site’s fortifications; the social mechan…
Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant
Animal domestication led to changes in the interaction between animals and humans, including new ways of exploitation, which could potentially leave lesions on the animals' bones. This study aims to examine changes in the prevalence of pathological manifestation following changes in human‐animal interactions as a result their domestication. For this purpose, we studied 19,565 animal remains recovered from archaeological excavations, dated from th…
Small Carnivore Hunting in the Early Neolithic: A View from EPPNB Aḥihud (Western Galilee, Israel)
The Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site of Aḥihud (Western Galilee, Israel): Preliminary observations
The recent excavations at the site of Aḥihud uncovered the remains of an Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village on the bank of Nahal Ḥilazon (Acre valley, Israel) tributary channel. The site is in an ecotone between the western Galilee hills and the northern coastal plain. The lithic assemblage from the site includes typical PPNB arrowheads (about a third are El-Khiam and Helwan types) as well as hundreds of sickle blades. The fauna include eviden…
Between cities and villages: The livestock economy in historical Palestine
This study aims at establishing a historically based model of animal husbandry in urban and rural settlements, in the Southern Levant. This type of model is required in the field of zooarchaeology, to better analyze and study ancient faunal remains. It also applies a non-traditional method to study and differentiate between urban and rural economies. For this aim, we used British Mandate tax files and village statistics. These are the best availa…
A Dog’s Life in the Iron Age of the Southern Levant: Connecting the Textual and Archaeological Evidence
Studies of dog remains focused on the Iron Age southern Levant generally highlight their unique nature in the archaeological context, specifically in relation to their post‐mortem exploitation. Here we review the published archaeological and textual data to evaluate the current understanding of dogs’ roles in their Iron Age settings. The analysis reveals that dogs are relatively common in the archaeological record, having been reported at 66% of …
Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel
Faunal remains from Ḥorvat Tevet, a site located in the rural hinterlands of the Jezreel Valley, reveal patterns of a complex redistributive apparatus during the Late Iron IIA. This paper assesses a large assemblage of animal bones within inter- and intra-site comparative analyses. Inter-site comparisons to contemporary sites in the northern valleys of Israel demonstrate that the agricultural production of grain and animal by-products at Ḥorvat T…
The Temple and the Town at Early Bronze Age I Megiddo: Faunal Evidence for the Emergence of Complexity
The Early Bronze Age is considered to be the period when complex and hierarchical societies first developed in the southern Levant. The appearance of specialization and social complexity is manifested through different aspects of the production stages of animal economy. In this paper, we examine faunal assemblages from two interconnected contemporaneous neighboring sites of differing characters in the Jezreel Valley, Israel: Megiddo, a cult site,…
Fish in ancient Jerusalem: Trade and consumption of fish in an inland site from the Iron Ages to the Early Islamic period
Frozen in time: Caprine pen from an early Islamic earthquake complex in Tel Beth Shemesh
The emergence of a nomadic desert polity: An Archaeozoological Perspective
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Always a Hunter: The Role of Wild Animals during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages of the Southern Levant
By the Late Bronze and Iron Ages in the southern Levant, livestock animals were the dominant meat source, and wild animals constituted a very small supplementary proportion of economy. As a result, wild animals often receive limited attention in studies of these periods. This article aims to examine the role of wild animals based on a large body of published zooarchaeological data. By studying temporal changes in species presence and frequencies,…
The Environment We Share: Human-Nonhuman Animal Interactions in the Ancient Near East
The studies in this volume display the complexity of human and animal bonds, contributing to the deconstruction of the dichotomy expressed in Western academic traditions between humans and nature. With the goal of contributing to current interdisciplinary debates about the interactions between humans and other animals through the lens of the ancient Near East, this issue opens a space for interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars who explo…
Variation in economic specialization as revealed through the study of Pottery Neolithic faunal assemblages from the southern Levant
Everything But The Oink: On the Discovery of an Articulated Pig in Iron Age Jerusalem and Its Meaning to Judahite Consumption Practices
Recent studies on pork consumption during the Iron Age demonstrated its avoidance in Judah. Recently, in excavations along the eastern slopes of the City of David, remains of an articulated pig skeleton were discovered in an Iron Age IIB-C building. The skeleton was found in a room where several smashed vessels were uncovered, suggesting a possible violent destruction event. The analysis shows that the pig was very young and was probably not cons…
Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Vol. 5: Survey, Zooarchaeology and Ethnoarchaeology
Late Bronze and Iron Age Livestock of the Southern Levant: Their Economic and Symbolic Roles
The faunal assemblages of the Late Bronze and Iron Age southern Levant reveal a great complexity of objectives and methods of livestock exploitation. The assemblages come from sites located in diverse climatic settings populated by individuals engaged in a variety of activities. Analyses of the sites reflect a uniformity of practices related to livestock and reveal that the animals were symbols of wealth. The article reveals the symbolic values l…
Nahal Yarmuth 38: A new and unique Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site in central Israel
Food, Pork Consumption, and Identity in Ancient Israel
Pig frequency in archaeological assemblages is often considered a prime indicator in the search for the identity of ancient populations of the southern Levant in the Iron Age. This view is based on the biblical narrative as well as on past research that correlated evidence of pork avoidance with the emergence of early Israel. Recent research reassessing the available data challenged this notion and encouraged a renewed debate on the identificatio…
Excavations at Motza in the Judean Hills and the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in the Southern Levant
Les fouilles effectuées récemment à Motza, près de Jérusalem, ont révélé la présence d’un important site néolithique occupé de manière continue du PPNB ancien au Néolithique céramique. Bien datée, l’occupation du PPNB ancien a livré de nombreux vestiges architecturaux, des sépultures, des fi gurines d’argile et de pierre, ainsi qu’une abondante industrie sur silex et obsidienne. Le niveau 6, épais de près de deux mètres, comporte trois couches d’…
Gazelle exploitation in the early Neolithic site of Motza, Israel: The last of the gazelle hunters in the southern Levant
Social Stratification in the Late Bronze and E arly I ron A ges: An Intra‐Site Investigation at M egiddo
The article presents an intra‐site investigation of the S trata VIIA and VIA faunal remains at M egiddo, I srael, which date to the LB III and late Iron I respectively. We examined social disparity between the populations of two areas of the city. Our finds indicate a difference in social status and division of labour: a dichotomy between producer‐consumers and consumers, who most probably interacted. Viewed in light of other types of remains at …
Late Bronze and Iron Age Livestock of the Southern Levant: Their Economic and Symbolic Roles
The faunal assemblages of the Late Bronze and Iron Age southern Levant reveal a great complexity of objectives and methods of livestock exploitation. The assemblages come from sites located in diverse climatic settings populated by individuals engaged in a variety of activities. Analyses of the sites reflect a uniformity of practices related to livestock and reveal that the animals were symbols of wealth. The article reveals the symbolic values l…
The Introduction of Domestic Camels to the Southern Levant: Evidence from the Aravah Valley
It was recently suggested that the introduction of the camel to the southern Levant occurred in the early Iron Age (late 2nd-early 1st millennia BCE). Our study of faunal remains from Iron Age sites at Timna, together with previous studies of Late Bronze and Iron Age sites at Timna and Wadi Faynan, enable us to pinpoint this event more precisely. The new evidence indicates that the first significant appearance of camels in the Aravah Valley was n…
The socioeconomic status of Iron Age metalworkers: Animal economy in the 'Slaves' Hill', Timna, Israel
The popular image of metalworking sites in desert settings envisages armies of slaves engaged in back-breaking labour. This is in conflict with ethnographic evidence indicating that skilled specialist metalworkers are often accorded high social status. This study approaches that contradiction directly by studying the remains of domesticated food animals from domestic and industrial contexts at Timna in southern Israel. The authors demonstrate tha…
Variation in economic specialization as revealed through the study of Pottery Neolithic faunal assemblages from the southern Levant
Iron Age Pigs: New Evidence on Their Origin and Role in Forming Identity Boundaries
This article reviews recent studies of pigs in the Iron Age in the southern Levant. The studies were carried out as part of the European Research Council-funded Ancient Israel project, with the aim of examining questions of identity and ethnic boundaries, with special emphasis on Philistia and ancient Israel. On the Philistine side, the results show a dichotomy in pork consumption between urban centers and the rural sector, and suggest that Europ…
Wet sieving a complex tell: Implications for retrieval protocols and studies of animal economy in historical periods
Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel
Faunal remains from Ḥorvat Tevet, a site located in the rural hinterlands of the Jezreel Valley, reveal patterns of a complex redistributive apparatus during the Late Iron IIA. This paper assesses a large assemblage of animal bones within inter- and intra-site comparative analyses. Inter-site comparisons to contemporary sites in the northern valleys of Israel demonstrate that the agricultural production of grain and animal by-products at Ḥorvat T…
Always a Hunter: The Role of Wild Animals during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages of the Southern Levant
By the Late Bronze and Iron Ages in the southern Levant, livestock animals were the dominant meat source, and wild animals constituted a very small supplementary proportion of economy. As a result, wild animals often receive limited attention in studies of these periods. This article aims to examine the role of wild animals based on a large body of published zooarchaeological data. By studying temporal changes in species presence and frequencies,…
The Faunal Evidence from Early Roman Jerusalem: The People behind the Garbage
This is a study of the animal remains from the Early Roman period landfill in the “City of David” ridge, the largest assemblage of fauna published from Jerusalem. The research includes both a zooarchaeological and taphonomical study and has a twofold objective: first, to understand landfill site formation processes and the activities related to it; and second, to examine the social and religious identity of the inhabitants of the different sector…
Beyond smelting: New insights on Iron Age (10th c. BCE) metalworkers community from excavations at a gatehouse and associated livestock pens in Timna, Israel
Environmental and Historical Impacts on Long Term Animal Economy: The Southern Levant in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Based on a comprehensive database of livestock frequencies and mortality profiles and on high-resolution relative chronologies, we examined synchronically and diachronically conventional assumptions regarding animal husbandry in the southern Levant in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages and arrived at the following conclusions: 1) A recent study suggests that animal economy in these periods was based on strategies of survival and self-sufficiency. We c…
Understanding faunal contexts of a complex Tell: Tel Dor, Israel, as a case study
Nahal Yarmuth 38: A new and unique Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site in central Israel
Food, Pork Consumption, and Identity in Ancient Israel
Pig frequency in archaeological assemblages is often considered a prime indicator in the search for the identity of ancient populations of the southern Levant in the Iron Age. This view is based on the biblical narrative as well as on past research that correlated evidence of pork avoidance with the emergence of early Israel. Recent research reassessing the available data challenged this notion and encouraged a renewed debate on the identificatio…
Food Rituals and Their Social Significance in the Mid-Second Millennium BC in the Southern Levant: A View From Megiddo
Ceremonies involving intentional burial of animals with humans are acknowledged to bear religious, social and political connotations, and we explored both the ritual activity and the social trajectory of these activities. To date, these ceremonies have rarely been examined within the context of nearby daily activities. We studied faunal remains associated with intramural burials in comparison with contemporaneous daily life in the midsecond mille…
The Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site of Aḥihud (Western Galilee, Israel): Preliminary observations
The recent excavations at the site of Aḥihud uncovered the remains of an Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village on the bank of Nahal Ḥilazon (Acre valley, Israel) tributary channel. The site is in an ecotone between the western Galilee hills and the northern coastal plain. The lithic assemblage from the site includes typical PPNB arrowheads (about a third are El-Khiam and Helwan types) as well as hundreds of sickle blades. The fauna include eviden…
The emergence of a nomadic desert polity: An Archaeozoological Perspective
Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant
Animal domestication led to changes in the interaction between animals and humans, including new ways of exploitation, which could potentially leave lesions on the animals' bones. This study aims to examine changes in the prevalence of pathological manifestation following changes in human‐animal interactions as a result their domestication. For this purpose, we studied 19,565 animal remains recovered from archaeological excavations, dated from th…
Between cities and villages: The livestock economy in historical Palestine
This study aims at establishing a historically based model of animal husbandry in urban and rural settlements, in the Southern Levant. This type of model is required in the field of zooarchaeology, to better analyze and study ancient faunal remains. It also applies a non-traditional method to study and differentiate between urban and rural economies. For this aim, we used British Mandate tax files and village statistics. These are the best availa…
A Dog’s Life in the Iron Age of the Southern Levant: Connecting the Textual and Archaeological Evidence
Studies of dog remains focused on the Iron Age southern Levant generally highlight their unique nature in the archaeological context, specifically in relation to their post‐mortem exploitation. Here we review the published archaeological and textual data to evaluate the current understanding of dogs’ roles in their Iron Age settings. The analysis reveals that dogs are relatively common in the archaeological record, having been reported at 66% of …
Frozen in time: Caprine pen from an early Islamic earthquake complex in Tel Beth Shemesh
Everything But The Oink: On the Discovery of an Articulated Pig in Iron Age Jerusalem and Its Meaning to Judahite Consumption Practices
Recent studies on pork consumption during the Iron Age demonstrated its avoidance in Judah. Recently, in excavations along the eastern slopes of the City of David, remains of an articulated pig skeleton were discovered in an Iron Age IIB-C building. The skeleton was found in a room where several smashed vessels were uncovered, suggesting a possible violent destruction event. The analysis shows that the pig was very young and was probably not cons…
Excavations at Motza in the Judean Hills and the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in the Southern Levant
Les fouilles effectuées récemment à Motza, près de Jérusalem, ont révélé la présence d’un important site néolithique occupé de manière continue du PPNB ancien au Néolithique céramique. Bien datée, l’occupation du PPNB ancien a livré de nombreux vestiges architecturaux, des sépultures, des fi gurines d’argile et de pierre, ainsi qu’une abondante industrie sur silex et obsidienne. Le niveau 6, épais de près de deux mètres, comporte trois couches d’…
Gazelle exploitation in the early Neolithic site of Motza, Israel: The last of the gazelle hunters in the southern Levant
Understanding faunal contexts of a complex Tell: Tel Dor, Israel, as a case study
Reconstructing Ancient Israel: Integrating Macro- and Micro-archaeology
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
The Introduction of Domestic Camels to the Southern Levant: Evidence from the Aravah Valley
It was recently suggested that the introduction of the camel to the southern Levant occurred in the early Iron Age (late 2nd-early 1st millennia BCE). Our study of faunal remains from Iron Age sites at Timna, together with previous studies of Late Bronze and Iron Age sites at Timna and Wadi Faynan, enable us to pinpoint this event more precisely. The new evidence indicates that the first significant appearance of camels in the Aravah Valley was n…
Animal economy and social diversity in Byzantine Apollonia/Sozousa
This article examines the faunal remains retrieved from two distinct refuse deposits dated to the Late Byzantine period (6th to early 7th centuries ad) at Apollonia. The refuse deposits were located on the southern (area M) and northern (area O) extremities of the Late Byzantine period occupation at the site, and are recognized as belonging to two different groups. Despite the sample size, a trend can be detected, shedding new light on social div…
Food, Economy, and Culture at Tel Dor, Israel: A Diachronic Study of Faunal Remains from 15 Centuries of Occupation
This paper presents the results of a study of the cultural and economic changes from a longue durée perspective as reflected in the animal remains from a nearly continuous occupation spanning the early Iron Age through the Roman period at Tel Dor, a harbor town on Israel's Carmel coast. Such long-term zooarchaeological analyses are currently rare. Focusing on the choice of food, as well as on animal exploitation methods/strategies, the paper asks…
Environmental and Historical Impacts on Long Term Animal Economy: The Southern Levant in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Based on a comprehensive database of livestock frequencies and mortality profiles and on high-resolution relative chronologies, we examined synchronically and diachronically conventional assumptions regarding animal husbandry in the southern Levant in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages and arrived at the following conclusions: 1) A recent study suggests that animal economy in these periods was based on strategies of survival and self-sufficiency. We c…
The socioeconomic status of Iron Age metalworkers: Animal economy in the 'Slaves' Hill', Timna, Israel
The popular image of metalworking sites in desert settings envisages armies of slaves engaged in back-breaking labour. This is in conflict with ethnographic evidence indicating that skilled specialist metalworkers are often accorded high social status. This study approaches that contradiction directly by studying the remains of domesticated food animals from domestic and industrial contexts at Timna in southern Israel. The authors demonstrate tha…
Iron Age Pigs: New Evidence on Their Origin and Role in Forming Identity Boundaries
This article reviews recent studies of pigs in the Iron Age in the southern Levant. The studies were carried out as part of the European Research Council-funded Ancient Israel project, with the aim of examining questions of identity and ethnic boundaries, with special emphasis on Philistia and ancient Israel. On the Philistine side, the results show a dichotomy in pork consumption between urban centers and the rural sector, and suggest that Europ…
Animal Economy in a Temple City and Its Countryside: Iron Age Jerusalem as a Case Study
The dramatic growth of Jerusalem in the Iron Age IIB–C raises questions regarding subsistence and relations with the city's rural hinterland. Studies of animal economy can shed light on these questions. Here, we present results from the zooarchaeological investigation of two sites: the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem and Tel Moza, located a few kilometers to the west of the capital. We also compare our finds to previous results from several locat…
Beyond smelting: New insights on Iron Age (10th c. BCE) metalworkers community from excavations at a gatehouse and associated livestock pens in Timna, Israel
Social Stratification in the Late Bronze and E arly I ron A ges: An Intra‐Site Investigation at M egiddo
The article presents an intra‐site investigation of the S trata VIIA and VIA faunal remains at M egiddo, I srael, which date to the LB III and late Iron I respectively. We examined social disparity between the populations of two areas of the city. Our finds indicate a difference in social status and division of labour: a dichotomy between producer‐consumers and consumers, who most probably interacted. Viewed in light of other types of remains at …
The Faunal Evidence from Early Roman Jerusalem: The People behind the Garbage
This is a study of the animal remains from the Early Roman period landfill in the “City of David” ridge, the largest assemblage of fauna published from Jerusalem. The research includes both a zooarchaeological and taphonomical study and has a twofold objective: first, to understand landfill site formation processes and the activities related to it; and second, to examine the social and religious identity of the inhabitants of the different sector…
Wet sieving a complex tell: Implications for retrieval protocols and studies of animal economy in historical periods
Crusader Diet in Times of War and Peace: Arsur (Israel) as a Case Study
This paper puts forward an archaeozoological analysis of two sizeable animal bone assemblages from the thirteenth‐century Crusader town of Arsur (Israel). Each represents a distinct behavioural practice, one of meat eaten in peaceful times and the other of meat consumed under stressful conditions while preparing for and undergoing a siege, when consideration was given to factors of benefits and space. Our results show that the faunal remains from…
Food Rituals and Their Social Significance in the Mid-Second Millennium BC in the Southern Levant: A View From Megiddo
Ceremonies involving intentional burial of animals with humans are acknowledged to bear religious, social and political connotations, and we explored both the ritual activity and the social trajectory of these activities. To date, these ceremonies have rarely been examined within the context of nearby daily activities. We studied faunal remains associated with intramural burials in comparison with contemporaneous daily life in the midsecond mille…
Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Vol. 5: Survey, Zooarchaeology and Ethnoarchaeology
Late Bronze and Iron Age Livestock of the Southern Levant: Their Economic and Symbolic Roles
The faunal assemblages of the Late Bronze and Iron Age southern Levant reveal a great complexity of objectives and methods of livestock exploitation. The assemblages come from sites located in diverse climatic settings populated by individuals engaged in a variety of activities. Analyses of the sites reflect a uniformity of practices related to livestock and reveal that the animals were symbols of wealth. The article reveals the symbolic values l…
Nahal Yarmuth 38: A new and unique Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site in central Israel
Food, Pork Consumption, and Identity in Ancient Israel
Pig frequency in archaeological assemblages is often considered a prime indicator in the search for the identity of ancient populations of the southern Levant in the Iron Age. This view is based on the biblical narrative as well as on past research that correlated evidence of pork avoidance with the emergence of early Israel. Recent research reassessing the available data challenged this notion and encouraged a renewed debate on the identificatio…
Variation in economic specialization as revealed through the study of Pottery Neolithic faunal assemblages from the southern Levant
Everything But The Oink: On the Discovery of an Articulated Pig in Iron Age Jerusalem and Its Meaning to Judahite Consumption Practices
Recent studies on pork consumption during the Iron Age demonstrated its avoidance in Judah. Recently, in excavations along the eastern slopes of the City of David, remains of an articulated pig skeleton were discovered in an Iron Age IIB-C building. The skeleton was found in a room where several smashed vessels were uncovered, suggesting a possible violent destruction event. The analysis shows that the pig was very young and was probably not cons…
The Temple and the Town at Early Bronze Age I Megiddo: Faunal Evidence for the Emergence of Complexity
The Early Bronze Age is considered to be the period when complex and hierarchical societies first developed in the southern Levant. The appearance of specialization and social complexity is manifested through different aspects of the production stages of animal economy. In this paper, we examine faunal assemblages from two interconnected contemporaneous neighboring sites of differing characters in the Jezreel Valley, Israel: Megiddo, a cult site,…
Fish in ancient Jerusalem: Trade and consumption of fish in an inland site from the Iron Ages to the Early Islamic period
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