Coming in November

Tel Miqne-Ekron 14/1

Objects and Material Culture Studies: Middle Bronze Age II Through Iron Age II

Edited by Seymour (Sy) Gitin

This is the first of two volumes presenting the results of the analyses of objects and material culture excavated in fourteen seasons from 1981 to 1996, covering a wide range of finds from the Middle Bronze II through the Iron Age II. Chapters include studies on flaked stone assemblages; stone tools and vessels; vessel plugs, covers, and reworked sherds; weights, scale pans, and miscellaneous small stones/objects; and zoomorphic terracottas. Technical studies involve microwear analysis of flint artifacts, archaeobotanical remains, forensic analysis of last-use living surface samples, geoarchaeological analysis of the landscape, geological provenancing of grindstones and other stone artifacts, and provenancing of asphalt.