Category Archives: artifacts

Tell Halif K8 House

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Tim Frank

Another house I studied at Tell Halif, was the K8 house. This was considerably smaller. Its front section was well preserved, but back rooms had been eroded. Some of the excavators thought that the artefacts recovered from the house may … Continue reading →

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Household food storage in Ancient Israel and Judah

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Tim Frank

My book “Household food storage in Ancient Israel and Judah” has been published by Archaeopress. It is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation completed for the University of Bern. It explores household food storage by looking at texts, pictorial … Continue reading →

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Archaeological theory: processual archaeology

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Tim Frank

Processual archaeology developed earlier than evolutionary archaeology, but with the same goal of making archaeology more scientific. Even though it was in part a reaction against culture history, in practice the two were sometimes merged by describing the cultural systems … Continue reading →

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Archaeological theory: progressive-evolutionary and scientific evolutionary

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Tim Frank

Addressing the question of culture change, the progressive-evolutionary approach interpreted archaeological data within schemes that have dominated much of anthropology. These schemes placed cultures on a scale of linear, progressive development from “primitive” to “sophisticated”, or “savage” to “civilized”, with … Continue reading →

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Determining use of artefacts

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Tim Frank

As part of my contribution to the book The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant I outlined in simple words some of my thoughts on determining the use of artefacts recovered in archaeological excavations. This is the central part of … Continue reading →

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Pottery reconstruction

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Tim Frank

While I was writing my dissertation I was wishing again and again that more archaeological excavations would restore pottery and give a detailed report on the pottery found. For only by restoring the pottery can we know how many vessels … Continue reading →

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Persian figurines at Tell Halif

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Tim Frank

It was especially in Field IV, excavated from 1992 to 1999, that Persian figurines were found on Tell Halif. But throughout the excavations of Field V (2007 – 2015), we also regularly came across figurines. This year the Persian figurines … Continue reading →

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Destroyed by war

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Tim Frank

I have written before about the signs of warfare at Tell Halif. In particular, the city that ended at the end of the 8th century BCE has not only signs of destruction by fire, but also quite a few remains … Continue reading →

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Beauty among ashes

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Tim Frank

By now it is nothing unusual at Tell Halif to come down on floors with plenty of pottery remains. Only, this one was a few centimetres higher than we expected. We were quite excited when we found it, especially as … Continue reading →

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The floor continues still

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Tim Frank

Last year I was excited that the floor of the house we had excavated in 2009 continues from the western edge of Tell Halif east towards the centre of the tell. Of course we knew that a house could be … Continue reading →

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