Category Archives: Visualization

Visualizing Food Storage in Ancient Houses

Posted on October 20, 2019 by

Recently an article I wrote was published on the ASOR blog Ancient Near East Today. It discusses some of the issues with visualizations in archaeology.

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A harvest stored

Posted on August 3, 2019 by

This fictional account illustrates how food storage might have been integrated with other household activities in Ancient Judah. I developed this from my dissertation. The rain fell heavily now, the wind driving it against the house wall, pushing it through … Continue reading →

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Tel Batash (Timnah) House 950

Posted on May 3, 2019 by

I’ll add pictures of one more visualization completed as part of my study into household food storage. These pictures are from a reconstruction of House 950 at Tel Batash, often identified with Timnah on the border between Judah and Philistine … Continue reading →

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Tell Halif K8 House

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

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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Tell Halif F7 House

Posted on January 28, 2019 by

In my book Household Food Storage in Ancient Israel and Judah I investigated several archaeological examples of houses. As part of that I also made some visualisations of the houses, which can be viewed here. The visualisations were used to … Continue reading →

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