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ID3919208
AuthorsLouise A Hitchcock (0000-0002-1470-2519, The University of Melbourne), Aren M Maeir (0000-0003-3230-292X, Bar-Ilan University)
Year2014
Volume46
Issue4
Pages624-640
Publication date2014-08-08
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2014.928602
OpenAlexW1998274341
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited32

Historical accounts indicate pirates were able to create culturally mixed tribal entities and identities by incorporating new followers from different cultures into their social structure. This article suggests that upheavals at the end of the Bronze Age inter alia led to the formation of pirate bands of 'Sea Peoples' composed of non-elites, including sailors, disenfranchised warriors, mercenaries, workers, craft workers and peasants from the Mediterranean social network. We discuss how historical accounts of piracy may enable us to model the Sea Peoples' phenomenon through the identification of patterns in pirate culture including social organization and geography and we suggest that piracy was a mechanism for limited migration and transmission of foreign cultural traits. One tribe of these blended cultures, the Peleset, settled among the indigenous Canaanites, forming a new entity, the Philistines. AMM's research was partially funded (with J. Maran) by a grant from the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development [GIF; grant number 1080 132.4/2009] and an Israel Science Foundation Individual Research Grant [grant number 100/13].Additional informationNotes on contributorsLouise A. HitchcockLouise Hitchcock is an associate professor of Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology in the Classics and Archaeology Program at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Minoan Architecture: A Contextual Analysis, Theory for Classics, and Aegean Art and Architecture (with Donald Preziosi), and is the co-editor of DAIS: The Aegean Feast, Aegaeum 29 as well as the author of many articles dealing with Aegean archaeology, architecture and theory. Her current research deals with Aegean, Cypriot and Philistine connections. The Australian Research Council funded her excavations at the Philistine site of Tell es-Safi/Gath, where she is an area supervisor.Aren M. MaeirAren Maeir is a professor of Archaeology in the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. Since 1996, he has directed the Tell es-Safi/Gath archaeological project in Israel. The project has received funding from numerous granting agencies, including the Israel Science Foundation, the German-Israel Foundation for Research and Development, the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the National Geographic Foundation, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. He is, inter alia, the author of "In the Midst of the Jordan": The Jordan Valley during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1500 BCE) – Archaeological and Historical Correlates (Vienna, 2010) has edited several volumes, including Tell es-Safi/Gath I: Report on the 1996–2005 Seasons (Wiesbaden, 2012), and has jointly and singly authored numerous articles on ancient Near Eastern archaeology, the finds from Tell es-Safi/Gath, the Philistines and the Aegean

Archaeology · Craft · Ethnology · Identification (biology · Indigenous · Social life · Sociology · Tribe · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Ecology · History · Law, logistics, and international trade

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