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Category Archives: excavations
Household food storage in Ancient Israel and Judah
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
Posted in archaeological theory, Archaeology, artifacts, Bible, Biblical Studies, excavations, Gustaf Dalman, History, Household Archaeology, Israel, Judah, Lachish, Tell Halif
Tagged Ancient Israel, Ancient Judah, Ancient Near East, Bible interpretation, Biblical Archaeology, ethnography, excavation methods, Historiography, History, Household Archaeology, Tell Halif
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Archaeological theory: post-processual and intepretive archaeology
Post-processual archaeology reacted against processual archaeology, not least because the assumption of the objective observer, who is not embedded in a culture and history, no longer seemed tenable. The explanations of the processualists in scientific language were seen not so … Continue reading
Archaeological theory: culture history
The integration of archaeology and history has never been easy, especially as some of the main theoretical approaches to archaeology have been quite hostile to considering historiographical insights and linking their endeavour to the often messy task of history writing. … Continue reading
Posted in archaeological theory, Archaeology, excavations
Tagged Archaeology, Culture history
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Determining use of artefacts
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
Summer 2016 at Tell Halif
I am not in Israel this summer, but there’s something happening at Tell Halif. A team are excavating at the northern end of Field V and establishing the connection between Fields IV and V. They are finding some good stuff. … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, excavations, Household Archaeology, Tell Halif
Tagged Ancient Judah, Biblical Archaeology, excavations, Israel, Judah, Tell Halif
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Maritime trade in the Eastern Mediterranean under Assyrian rule
In a previous post I discussed the description of the Assyrian presence in the Levant during the 8th and 7th centuries BCE as the Pax Assyriaca – this peaceful, prosperous period of trade. I suggested that there are serious problems … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Assyria, excavations, Judah
Tagged Ancient Israel, Ancient Judah, Biblical Archaeology, History, Philistines
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Pax Assyriaca
Once upon a time on the eastern shores of the sea there were many little kingdoms fighting for dominance, trying to exert control over each other. The frequent raids into the territories of neighbours made life uncertain. The enmity stifled … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Bible, Discussion, excavations, History, Judah
Tagged Ancient Israel, Ancient Judah, Archaeology, Biblical Archaeology, Daughter of Lachish, excavations, History, Israel, Judah
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The tabun and its misidentification in the archaeological record
Recently the article The tabun and its misidentification in the archaeological record by Jennie Ebeling and M. Rogel was published in the journal Levant. It examines the current and past use of tabun bread ovens in the Levant. For a … Continue reading
Beauty among ashes
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
Posted in Archaeology, artifacts, destruction, excavations, Tell Halif
Tagged Ancient Israel, Ancient Judah, Archaeology, Biblical Archaeology, excavations, Tell Halif
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The four-room house in Ancient Israel
In a previous post I talked about the “pillared house” as a house-type that was characteristic of Ancient Israel. In his book The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Ancient Israel Avraham Faust stresses that it is not so much the … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Book Review, Discussion, excavations
Tagged Ancient Israel, Biblical Archaeology, excavations, Israel
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