The Wide Lens in Archaeology

Justin Lev-Tov was assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama Birmingham until 2005. He continues to conduct and publish zooarchaeological research as a part of various excavation projects in Israel and Jordan. Paula Wapnish Hesse was staff zooarchaeologist for the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon (Israel) from 1985 until the conclusion of excavations. She continues to research and publish on many of Ashkelon's unique features, such as the dog burials and the worked bone and ivory industries. Allan S. Gilbert is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. After early research in the zooarchaeology of the Near East, Gilbert has been engaged in geoarchaeology and the historical archaeology of New York City.    

Introduction: Bones as Building Blocks for Brian Hesse’s Social Archaeology
Brian Hesse 1944–2011: Curriculum vitae    

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Part 1: Contexts, Collections, and the Archaeo(zoo)logical Record

Jeffrey A. Blakely and Inbar Ktalev - Identifying and Understanding Residuality in Tell el-Hesi’s
Archaeological Record: The Malacological Evidence         

Thomas H. McGovern, George Hambrecht, Seth Brewington, Frank Feeley, Ramona Harrison, Megan Hicks, Konrad Smiarowski, and James Woollett - Too Many Bones: Data Management and the NABONE Experience      

Haskel J. Greenfield and Angela Beattie - A Practical Macroscopic Approach for Distinguishing Burned and Boiled Bones in Zooarchaeological Assemblages

 

Part 2: Peoples, Pigs, and Pots in Palestine

Liora Kolska Horwitz, Armelle Gardeisen, Aren Maeir, and Louise A. Hithcock - A Contribution to the Iron Age Philistine Pig Debate       

Edward F. Maher - Flair of the Dog: The Philistine Consumption of Canines            

Yosef Garfinkel  - The Ethnic Identification of Khirbet Qeiyafa: Why It Matters      

Avraham Faust - An All-Israelite Identity: Historical Reality or Biblical Myth?          


Part 3: Ritual Real Estate

Jonathan S. Greer - “Cursed Be the Cheat Who Offers a Blemished Animal!” A Broken Tibia from a Sacrificial Deposit at Tel Dan and Its Implications for Understanding Israelite Religious Practice

Justin Lev-Tov - Can Bones Differentiate Royal Roast from Sacrificial Slaughter?
The Case of Hazor’s Late Bronze Age Monumental Building           

Deirdre N. Fulton, Paula Hesse, and Brian Hesse - Considering Carcasses: Sheep and Goat Sacrifice at Carthage, Tunisia, and Al Qisha, Yemen          


Part 4: Buried Beasts

Lidar Sapir-Hen, Yuval Gadot, and Oded Lipschits - Ceremonial Donkey Burial, Social Status, and Settlement Hierarchy in the Early Bronze III: The Case of Tel Azekah 

Liora Kolska Horwitz, Daniel M. Master, and Hadas Motro - A Middle Bronze Age Equid from Ashkelon: A Case of Ritual Interment or Refuse Disposal?              

Liora Kolska Horwitz, Samuel R. Wolff, and Steven Ortiz - The Context and Biometry of Iron Age II and Hellenistic Period Dog “Burials” from Tel Gezer Compared to Those from Other Sites in the Region         


Part 5: Organization and Orientation of Animal Economies

Aharon Sasson   - Cattle Husbandry and the Survival Subsistence Strategy: A Zooarchaeological Perspective        

Pam Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana  - Where Are Our Goats? The Role of Goats in Anglo-Saxon England  

Bill Grantham, Daniel Lowrey, Hillary Boyd, and Samantha Earnest - Gallus Gallus during the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Israel   


Part 6: Animal Use at Three Sites through the Ages

David R. Lipovitch - A Preliminary Analysis on the Iron Age III Faunal Remains Tell Ta?yinat, Turkey (Ancient Kunulua)

Tina Greenfield, Chris McKinny, and Itzhaq Shai  - “I Can Count All My Bones”: A Preliminary Report of the Late Bronze Faunal Remains from Area B1 at Tel Burna, Israel         

Justin Lev-Tov, Sarah W. Kansa, Levent Atici, and Jane C. Wheeler - New Light on Faunal Remains from Chogha Mish, Iran             


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