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Animal bone archaeology commonly focuses on identifying patterns of animal exploitation, with a great deal of research devoted to determining an animal's economic importance to society. This study focused on the symbolic power associated with animals in ancient Near Eastern comp…

This dissertation explores the changing role of material culture in the expression of identity, using the Philistine settlement at Tel Miqne-Ekron in the Iron I (12th–10th centuries BCE) as a test case. A diachronic analysis documenting strategies of maintenance and adaptation p…

Material reminiscent of an Aegean-style culture, which was distinct from that of the indigenous population, appeared in southern Canaan some time near the beginning of the 12th century B.C.E. Scholars have long associated this material with the arrival of a group of newcomers, t…