Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond

The 18 papers are from a session at the November 2008 annual meeting of the American School of Oriental Research, held in Boston. They focus on the household as a window to larger economy, political organization, and social structures and to identity, kinship, and language. Their topics include the microscopic record, the impact of urbanization on Middle Bronze Age households in the southern Levant, household gleanings from Iron 1 Tel Dan, early Iron Age domestic material cultural in Philistia and an eastern Mediterranean koine, household economies in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and cult corners in the Aegean and the Levant. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Assaf Yasur-Landau, Ph.D. (2003) in Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, is a senior lecturer at the department of Maritime Civilizations and a senior researcher in the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa. He is the author of The Philistines and Aegean Migration in the Late Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and editor (with A. Fantalkin) of Bene Israel: Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Volume 31) (Brill, 2008).Jennie R. Ebeling, Ph.D. (2001) in Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Archaeology and Art History at the University of Evansville. She is the author of Women’s Lives in Biblical Times (T&T Clark Int’l., 2010) and editor (with Y.M. Rowan) of New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts (Equinox, 2008).Laura B. Mazow, Ph.D. (2005) in Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, is Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.