In the Wake of the Sea Peoples, In the Footsteps of Goliath: Excavating the Philistine Site of Tell es-Safi/Gath

The Late Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath and the site’s role in Southwestern Canaan

Aren M Maeir, Jeffrey Chadwick, Amit Dagan, Louise A Hitchcock, Jill Katz, Itzhaq Shai, Joe Uziel

2019-01-01

The Late Bronze Age in the Levant is a period of much interest to archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars. This is a peri..

Fifteen Men on a Dead Seren’s Chest: Yo Ho Ho and a Krater of Wine

LA Hitchcock, AM Maeir

2018-01-01

Recent research by the authors using accounts of pirate culture in historical times and studies of pirate geography, proposed an i..

Lost in Translation: Settlement Organization in Postpalatial Crete, a View from the East

LA HITCHCOCK, AM Maeir

2017-01-01

The 12th century BCE Mediterranean was characterized by the collapse of palace-based societies. The material culture of post-palat..

The Appearance, Formation and Transformation of Philistine Culture: New Perspectives and New Finds

AM Maeir, LA HITCHCOCK

2017-01-01

In the early/mid-12th century BCE, the social and cultural milieu in the Southern Levant went through deep changes (e.g., WARD and..

Entangling Aegean Ritual in Philistine Culture

L HITCHCOCK, A Maeir, A Dagan

2016-01-01

This paper proposes to examine identity as a category is structured through processes of ritualized behavior, belief, and encounte..

Numinous tree and stone: re-animating the Minoan landscape.

S Crooks, C TULLY, LA Hitchcock

2016-01-01

Iconographic scenes of inferred cultic activity, including the hugging or leaning upon of aniconic stones and the apparent appeara..

The Conglomerate Quarry at the Mycenaean Site of Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi

LA HITCHCOCK, null Chapin, AP, null Banou, E, J Reynolds

2016-01-01

Although many studies have been published on Minoan quarries, few details have ever been published on Mycenaean quarries. Here we ..

Disentangling Entangled Objects: Iron Age Inscriptions from Philistia as a Reflection of Cultural Processes

Brent Davis, Aren M Maeir, Louise A Hitchcock

2015-01-01

In recent years, the need has arisen for more complex interpretive frameworks for understanding the character of ancient intercult..

RADIOCARBON DATING SHOWS AN EARLY APPEARANCE OF PHILISTINE MATERIAL CULTURE IN TELL ES-SAFI/GATH, PHILISTIA

Yotam Asscher, Dan Cabanes, Louise A Hitchcock, Aren M Maeir, Steve Weiner, Elisabetta Boaretto

2015-01-01

The Late Bronze Age to Iron Age transition in the coastal southern Levant involves a major cultural change, which is characterized..

The taphonomy and preservation of wood and dung ashes found in archaeological cooking installations: case studies from Iron Age Israel

Shira Gur-Arieh, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Aren M Maeir, Gunnar Lehmann, Louise A Hitchcock, Elisabetta Boaretto

2014-06-01

Cooking installations are among the most abundant features in Bronze and Iron Age archaeological sites in the southern Levant, yet..

Conspicuous Destruction and the Economy of Sacrifice in the Bronze and Early Iron Age East Mediterranean

Louise A Hitchcock

2014-01-01

The Vapheio Tholos Tomb and the Construction of a Sacred Landscape in Laconia, Greece

A Chapin, BE Davis, LA HITCHCOCK, E Banou

2014-01-01

Dressed to Impress: Architectural Adornment as an Exotic Marker of Elite Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean

LA Hitchcock

2012-01-01