Alexander H Joffe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 177151 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexander H Joffe |
| PRENOMES | Alexander H |
| SOBRENOME | Joffe |
| ASSINATURA | JOFFE A H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | College of New Rochelle |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 85 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 175 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Notes on the Mesopotamian Energy Economy
All societies require thermal energy for human survival and for household and industrial purposes. Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological data show that dung, a ubiquitous secondary animal product, was employed as fuel in the ancient Near East, in addition to use as agricultural fertilizer. A review of Mesopotamian texts shows, however, that dung is mentioned occasionally in medical contexts, rarely in reference to agriculture, and never with res…
Textiles and Staple Finance in the Near East and the Southern Levant
Textiles have long been recognized as a key feature in the economic and social development of early complex societies. Many comparative dimensions, however, remain unexplored, including within the ancient Near East. Unlike contemporary societies in Syria and Mesopotamia, wool was not used as a staple finance good in the Early Bronze Age southern Levant (c. 3700–2000 bce) since the landscape could not permit adequately scaled production. In larger…
Textiles in the Prehistoric Southern Levant
Alex Joffe, אלכס יופה, Textiles in the Prehistoric Southern Levant - אריגים בארץ ישראל הפרהיסטורית, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ב (2022), pp. 89-114
This is not the sort of man we want in Palestine today’. New evidence on the appointment of Alan Cunningham as High Commissioner of Palestine
The decision-making process behind the appointment of General Alan Cunningham as High Commissioner of Palestine in November 1945 to replace Field Marshal Lord Gort has been difficult to explain. Cunningham’s record as a failed wartime general and backwater administrative commander were scant preparation for an important political position in Mandatory Palestine. Newly located files indicate Vice Chief of the Imperial Staff Archibald Nye listed Cu…
Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age
Fiscal Year 2019 Honor Roll
Previous article FreeFiscal Year 2019 Honor RollPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreBenefactor ($20,000 and up)Susan AckermanArnold and Porter, LLC (in kind)Stevan B. DanaLawrence T. GeratySharon HerbertNorma KershawMacAllister MachineryP. E. MacAllister*Eric and Carol MeyersRichard F. NatarianAnn V. SahlmanThomas and Marilyn Schaub…
Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989–1996, Volume 4
American Jews Beyond Judaism
Bet Yeraḥ
A Tale of Two Galloways
A famous quote, ‘Arab leaders don't give a damn whether the refugees live or die’, attributed to an UNRWA official called ‘Ralph Galloway’, is examined. The real author was Lt. General Sir Alexander Galloway, who was briefly an UNRWA official in Jordan during 1951–52. Galloway's career is reviewed along with the circumstances of his brief tenure with UNRWA. He clashed with the Jordanian government over control of the organization during a period …
Connectivity in Antiquity
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past
Athens and Jerusalem in the Third Millennium
This paper sets out a systematic approach to using comparative methods in the archaeological study of complex societies. Three scales of comparison are indicated—micro, meso, and macro—corresponding roughly to the site, regional/cultural, and historical/evolutionary levels. While there is obvious overlap, each level has appropriate sets of methods and expectations, and each needs to be integrated in a sequential or hierarchical fashion. Examples …
Early Beth Shan (Strata XIX–XIII)
Archeology and the media
Kissufim Road
Athens and Jerusalem in the Third Millennium
This paper sets out a systematic approach to using comparative methods in the archaeological study of complex societies. Three scales of comparison are indicated—micro, meso, and macro—corresponding roughly to the site, regional/cultural, and historical/evolutionary levels. While there is obvious overlap, each level has appropriate sets of methods and expectations, and each needs to be integrated in a sequential or hierarchical fashion. Examples …
Egypt and the Levant
Die fruhbronzezeitliche Keramik von Hirbet ez-Zeraqon mit Studien zur Chronologie und funktionalen Deutung fruhbronzezeitlicher Keramik in der sudlichen Levante
Nepotism for all times
On the Language of Complex Societies
ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES: REPLY TO MICHAEL HELTZER BY ALEXANDER H. JOFFE* I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond to Michael HelzterÕs com- ments on my paper. While I have misgivings regarding his use of unprove- nanced artifacts, the data he presents, if genuine, represents major additions to the corpus of early Iron Age inscriptions. As a non-philologist I am unable to comment on the particulars of his translations. I sugges…
Identity/Crisis
Archaeology has an identity problem. At least three factors are involved. The postmodern view of radical instability has collided with processual aversions towards 'meaning', resulting in a stalemate regarding the past. Modern problems with identity, including the role of the past and archaeology itself, have generated additional confusion. Identity is a hall of mirrors which parallels other epistemological debates in archaeology, all of which re…
Aphek-Antipatris I
The Politics of Israeli Archaeology
Death is political, no less so in the past than in the present, and ancient burials are even more symbolic and powerful than modern burials. How the dead are treated in Israel today is a result not just of religious beliefs, but of the interplay of religion, politics, and economics. The archaeology of death is therefore a useful avenue for examining the position of archaeology as a whole in Israeli society. This study is directed by several quest…
Charles Townshend, Desert Hell
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Alcohol and Social Complexity in Ancient Western Asia
An underappreciated feature of complex societies is the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages, in particular wines and beers. A variety of data are reviewed which suggest significant expansion of alcoholic beverage production and consumption in many areas of Western Asia during the 4th and 3d millennia B.C. Production of beverages formed part of the processes by which emerging elites expanded control over craft production, established…
Redefining Chronology and Terminology for the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant
The Rise of Secondary States in the Iron Age Levant
This paper examines the formation of states during the Iron Age of the eastern Mediterranean, with particular emphasis on the Levantine states of Israel, Judah, Ammon, and Moab. Using archaeology and texts it proposes that the formation of secondary states was fundamentally different from that of early states such as in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Secondary states in the Levant needed to create not new bureaucratic methods, but new social identities, …
The Politics of Israeli Archaeology
Death is political, no less so in the past than in the present, and ancient burials are even more symbolic and powerful than modern burials. How the dead are treated in Israel today is a result not just of religious beliefs, but of the interplay of religion, politics, and economics. The archaeology of death is therefore a useful avenue for examining the position of archaeology as a whole in Israeli society. This study is directed by several quest…
Early Bronze I and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the Southern Levant
The Early Bronze I period (c. 3500-3100 BC) has long been recognized as the critical transition from the village-level society of the Chalcolithic to the 'urban' society of the Early Bronze Age II in the Southern Levant. Most models, however, have tended to stress exogenous influences and/or catastrophic explanations for this period and have failed to provide a clearly stated theoretical perspective. This paper presents a model of indigenous deve…
Disembedded Capitals in Western Asian Perspective
Disembedded capitals are urban sites founded de novo and designed to supplant existing patterns of authority and administration. While a controversial topic in New World archaeology, there is ample evidence from ancient Western Asia and Egypt to demonstrate that disembedded capitals were a well-understood and frequently used option in developed state systems. Ethnohistoric examples from Egypt and Mesopotamia are presented to show the common organ…
Egypt and Syro-Mesopotamia in the 4th Millennium
"The "Gilat Woman
Sometimes a single artifact can be the stimulus for a deep rethinking of a major socio-historic process. In this study, the authors use the "Gilat Woman" as a springboard for an innovative and provocative new appreciation of the economic and socio-political structures that underlay the Levantine Chalcolithic
Identity/Crisis
Archaeology has an identity problem. At least three factors are involved. The postmodern view of radical instability has collided with processual aversions towards 'meaning', resulting in a stalemate regarding the past. Modern problems with identity, including the role of the past and archaeology itself, have generated additional confusion. Identity is a hall of mirrors which parallels other epistemological debates in archaeology, all of which re…
Archeology and the media
Early Bronze 1 and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the Southern Levant
The Early Bronze I period (c. 3500-3100 BC) has long been recognized as the critical transition from the village-level society of the Chalcolithic to the 'urban' society of the Early Bronze Age II in the Southern Levant. Most models, however, have tended to stress exogenous influences and/or catastrophic explanations for this period and have failed to provide a clearly stated theoretical perspective. This paper presents a model of indigenous deve…
Early Bronze I and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the Southern Levant
The Early Bronze I period (c. 3500-3100 BC) has long been recognized as the critical transition from the village-level society of the Chalcolithic to the 'urban' society of the Early Bronze Age II in the Southern Levant. Most models, however, have tended to stress exogenous influences and/or catastrophic explanations for this period and have failed to provide a clearly stated theoretical perspective. This paper presents a model of indigenous deve…
Early Bronze 1 and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the Southern Levant
The Early Bronze I period (c. 3500-3100 BC) has long been recognized as the critical transition from the village-level society of the Chalcolithic to the 'urban' society of the Early Bronze Age II in the Southern Levant. Most models, however, have tended to stress exogenous influences and/or catastrophic explanations for this period and have failed to provide a clearly stated theoretical perspective. This paper presents a model of indigenous deve…
The Wadi el Ḥasā Archaeological Survey 1979-1983, West-Central Jordan . B. MacDonald. Map of Har Ḥamran-Southwest (198) . M. Haiman
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Ruth Amiran Volume . A. Eitan , R. Gophna , M. Kochavi
The Uruk World System. The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization
Hammam et-Turkman I
The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel . David A. Dorsey
Shechem II
Redefining Chronology and Terminology for the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant
Lower Galilee during the Iron Age . Z. Gal
The Jordan Valley Survey, 1953
Sūkās IX
Feeding Cities
Burial Practices and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan . R. Gonen
New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria . Mark W. Chavalas , John L. Hayes
Axes and Adzes from Canaan . Eli Miron
The Archaeology of Israelite Samaria . Ron E. Tappy
Biblical Archaeology Today, 1990
Yiftah'el, Salvage and Rescue Excavation at a Prehistoric Village in Lower Galilee, Israel. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 2 by Eliot Braun
Theory and Practice in Archaeology . Ian Hodder Interpreting Archaeology
Hans" Frankfort's Earlier Years Based on His Letters to "Bram" van Regteren Altena . Maurits van Loon
Recent Excavations in Israel, a View to the West
An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley, Part II
On the Surface
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