ISBN:
1904768989 (hb)
,
9781904768982 (hb)
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 289 p. :
,
ill., maps ;
,
24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Year of publication:
2006
Series Statement:
Approaches to anthropological archaeology
DDC:
933
Keywords:
etorient
;
Excavations (Archaeology)
;
Jews History 1200-953 B.C.
;
Ethnology
;
Ethnicity
;
Jews Identity To 1500.
;
History
;
Anthropology
;
Iron age.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Archaeology and ethnicity -- Israelite ethnicity : state of research -- Israelite markers and behavior -- Meat consumption -- Decorated pottery -- Imported pottery -- Pottery forms and repertoire -- The four-room house -- Circumcision and ethnicity -- Hierarchy and equality : the roots of the Israelite egalitarian ethos -- Settlement patterns in the Iron Age I-Iron Age II transition -- Ethnicity and statehood in ancient Israel -- The Philistines in the Iron Age I -- Totemism to ethnicity : the Philistines and Israel's self-identification -- Merenptah's Israel : Israel in the late thirteenth century BCE -- Israel's emergence : the beginnings -- Origins reconsidered -- Pots and peoples revisited : Israelites, Philistines and Canaanites -- Transjordan revisited -- Summary and conclusions -- Postscript.
