Abstract Explanations for the Late Bronze Age crisis and collapse in the eastern
Mediterranean are legion: migrations, predations by external forces, political struggles within …

Recent discussion of the formation and alteration of P hilistine identity in the L evantine I ron
A ge continues to reference primarily pottery styles and dietary practices. Such traditional …

Archaeological research on the Iron Age (1200–500 BC) Levant, a narrow strip of land
bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Desert, has been balkanized into …

The Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and
how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic …

Cooking installations are among the most abundant features in Bronze and Iron Age
archaeological sites in the southern Levant, yet until now their study has been mostly …

Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the best preserved and most extensively
excavated sites of the Roman world. A Hellenistic foundation later held by the Parthians and …

This Element looks critically at migration scenarios proposed for the end of the Bronze Age
in the eastern Mediterranean. After presenting some historical background to the …

Foodways have been a component of archaeological research for decades. However,
cooking and food preparation, as specific acts that could reveal social information about life …

The process and date of the Philistine settlement in Canaan have received a great deal of
scholarly attention. As well, scholars have also devoted much attention to the expansion of …

First published in 2013. The study of food in the Hebrew Bible and Syro-Palestinian
archaeology has tended to focus on kosher dietary laws, the sacrificial system, and feasting …