The pig and the chicken in the Middle East: Modeling human subsistence behavior in the archaeological record using historical and animal husbandry data

RW Redding - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2015 - Springer
The role of the pig in the subsistence system of the Middle East has a long and, in some
cases, poorly understood history. It is a common domesticated animal in earlier …

[图书][B] Evolution of a taboo: pigs and people in the ancient Near East

MD Price - 2020 - books.google.com
Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their
story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious …

Hoofprints in the sand: A study on domestic sheep (Ovis aries) from Iron Age southern Phoenicia using traditional biometric methods

S Harding, S Vermeersch, C Ujma, G Deonarain… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The majority of research to date on the translocation of livestock in the premodern (before
1500 CE) Mediterranean Basin has focused on expansive movements out from geographic …

Developments in subsistence during the Early Bronze Age through the Iron Age in the southern and central Levant: Integration of faunal and botanical remains using …

S Vermeersch, S Riehl, BM Starkovich… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Subsistence patterns during the Early Bronze Age I through the Iron Age II (3600-586 BCE)
are the topic of many archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological studies. The results of these …

The socioeconomic status of Iron Age metalworkers: animal economy in the 'Slaves' Hill', Timna, Israel

L Sapir-Hen, E Ben-Yosef - Antiquity, 2014 - cambridge.org
The popular image of metalworking sites in desert settings envisages armies of slaves
engaged in back-breaking labour. This is in conflict with ethnographic evidence indicating …

Animal economy in a temple city and its countryside: Iron Age Jerusalem as a case study

L Sapir-Hen, Y Gadot… - Bulletin of the American …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
The dramatic growth of Jerusalem in the Iron Age IIB–C raises questions regarding
subsistence and relations with the city's rural hinterland. Studies of animal economy can …

An Iron Age I Canaanite/Phoenician courtyard house at Tel Dor: a comparative architectural and functional analysis

A Gilboa, I Sharon, JR Zorn - Bulletin of the American …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
In this paper, we present an analysis of an Iron Age I dwelling at the Phoenician site of Dor,
on Israel's Carmel coast. We provide a definition for the architectural mental template for this …

Environmental and historical impacts on long term animal economy: the Southern Levant in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages

L Sapir-Hen, Y Gadot, I Finkelstein - Journal of the Economic and Social …, 2014 - brill.com
Based on a comprehensive database of livestock frequencies and mortality profiles and on
high-resolution relative chronologies, we examined synchronically and diachronically …

Social Stratification in the Late Bronze and E arly I ron A ges: An Intra‐Site Investigation at M egiddo

L Sapir‐Hen, A Sasson, A Kleiman… - Oxford Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The article presents an intra‐site investigation of the S trata VIIA and VIA faunal remains at M
egiddo, I srael, which date to the LB III and late Iron I respectively. We examined social …

Dor and Egypt in the early Iron Age: an archaeological perspective of (part of) the Wenamun Report

A Gilboa - Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant, 2015 - JSTOR
Excavations at Tel Dor, the major Iron Age port town along Israel's Carmel coast, have
yielded an outstanding number of early Iron Age Egyptian jars and amphorae, most …