When did the trade in lucrative spices from South Asia to the West commence? Recent
organic residue analyses performed on small early Iron Age (11th–late 10th century BCE) …

The Mediterranean has long played host to unusually intense patterns of maritime-led
exchange, involving both products made beyond the basin and local, culturally distinctive …

The nascent state of Saudi Arabia's tourism industry belies its potential to ascend to a
prominent position as a global tourist destination. Najran is poised to become an emerging …

Recent research on the Transjordanian Iron Age kingdoms stresses their tribal nature,
involvement in the Arabian trade, regional variation, and the mixture of pottery traditions. To …

Who settled in the hundreds of small villages that dotted the hill country of Iron I Canaan? In
last December's issue of" BA" devoted to ceramics and ethnicity, William Dever identified …

For much of the last one and one-half centuries, we have been accustomed to thinking of the
years around 1200 bce 1 as the beginning of a “dark age,” conceived analogously to the …

The Southern Levant was a thriving centre of religious and cultural exchange during the
Bronze Age.'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant'provides an …

A study of the ceramic assemblage of Beershebal Stratum II reveals that along with pottery
types that are well known from Judea and the Beersheba Valley, are several ceramic groups …

It was recently suggested that the introduction of the camel to the southern Levant occurred
in the early Iron Age (late 2nd-early 1st millennia BCE). Our study of faunal remains from …

The inscribed granite blocks found at Mit Rahina (Memphis) are a unique source of
information from the early 12th Dynasty of Egypt. This inscription apparently derived from the …