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Tel Miqne-Ekron 14/1

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

Edited by Seymour (Sy) Gitin

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10 color/123 b&w illustrations/2 maps
2026
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

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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.

 

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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.

Seymour (Sy) Gitin is Emeritus Dorot Director and Professor of Archaeology at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and the author of numerous volumes, including his recent memoir, The Road Taken: An Archaeologist's Journey to the Land of the Bible, also available from Eisenbrauns.

Preface ix

Seymour Gitin

Map of Philistine Coastal Plain and Shephelah sites in the Iron Age xi

Tel Miqne-Ekron revised top plan xii

Aerial view of Tel Miqne-Ekron xiii

Tel Miqne-Ekron Middle Bronze Age II–Iron Age I Stratigraphic and Chronological Chart xiv

Tel Miqne-Ekron Iron Age II Stratigraphic and Chronological Chart xv

Tel Miqne-Ekron Field Reports xvi

Objects

Chapter 1: Sickles in Sockles: The Tel Miqne-Ekron Flaked Stone Assemblage 1

Ann Roshwalb

Chapter 2: Stone Tools and Vessels from the Bronze and Iron Ages 45

Ianir Milevski

Chapter 3: Vessel Plugs and Covers and Reworked Ceramics: Typology, Context, and Function 99

Gary P Arbino

Chapter 4: Weights, Scale Pans, and Miscellaneous Small Stones/Objects 165

Raz Kletter

Chapter 5: Zoomorphic Terracottas 187

David Ben-Shlomo

Material Culture Studies

Chapter 6: Microwear Analysis of Flint Artifacts from the Early Iron Age in Field I

(Sondage and Summit), Field III, and Field IV Lower 255

Mark S Becker

Chapter 7: Archaeobotanical Remains 269

Yael Mahler-Slasky and Mordechai E Kislev

Chapter 8: Forensic Science Applied to Archaeology: Last Use Analysis of Living Surface Samples

Collected in the 1996 Season 303

Azriel Gorski

Chapter 9: Geoarchaeological Report: Analysis of the Landscape of Tel Miqne and Its Environmental

Evolution 327

Arlene M Rosen, Daniel Wachs, and Oren Ackermann

Chapter 10: Analysis and Geological Provenancing of Grindstones and Other Stone Artifacts 341

Olwen Williams-Thorpe

Chapter 11: Reprinted Abstract: Asphalt in Iron Age Excavations from the Philistine Tel Miqne-Ekron

City (Israel): Origin and Trade Routes 357

Jacques Connan, Arie Nissenbaum, Kendra Imbus, John Zumberge, and Steve Macko

Color Figures 359

Color Photos 365

Appendix 3A 371

Gary P Arbino

Appendix 5A 444

David Ben-Shlomo

Bibliographic Abbreviations 473

Also of Interest

Also of interest book cover

Tel Miqne 9/2

The Iron Age IIC: Late Philistine City

Seymour (Sy) Gitin, Trude Dothan, Yosef Garfinkel, with contributions by David Ben-Shlomo, Amir Golani, Baruch Brandl, Ianir Milevski, Edward F. Maher, Brian Hesse, Omri Lernau, Erik Steinbach, and Alexandra S. Drenka
Also of interest book cover

Tel Miqne 10/1

Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavations 1994–1996, Field IV Upper and Field V, The Elite Zone Part 1: Iron Age IIC Temple Complex 650

Seymour (Sy) Gitin, Steven M. Ortiz, and Trude Dothan

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