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Despite the large number of well-preserved domestic contexts in Bronze and Iron Age sites, household archaeology has not been a common approach to studying the material culture of Ancient Israel. Until recently, the dictates of Biblical Archaeology led to a narrow set of questions that ignored issues such as gender, status and production within the household. The present volume, which grew out of a session at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, attempts to redress this issue. The seventeen papers herein reflect innovative viewpoints on the theory and praxis of household archaeology in this region. The next step in household research is presented here, with the use of tailor-made data collection strategies designed to answer specific questions posed by household archaeology.
About the author
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.
