Levant
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Levant 41.2
Articles
Tell Beth Shean During the EB IB Period: Evidence for Social Complexity in the Late 4th Millennium BC
Amihai Mazar and Yael Rotem
Revisiting the History of the Potter's Wheel in the Southern Levant
Valentine Roux and Pierre de Miroschedji
Hoarded Treasures: The Megiddo Ivories and the End of the Bronze Age
Marian Feldman
The Civilian-Military Community in the Two Phases of the Synagogue at Dura Europos: A New Approach
Ben Zion Rosenfeld and Rivka Potchebutzky
A New Type of Cemetery from the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Periods from Central Israel
Amir Gorzalczany
Reviews
Levant 41.1
Obituary
Fr Michele Piccirillo, 1944 - 2008
Hamarneh, Catreena
Articles
The Zoomorphic Figurines from Sha'ar Hagolan: Hunting Magic Practices in the Neolithic Near East
Freikman, Michael; Garfinkel, Yosef
Settlement Fluctuations and Environmental Changes in Israel's Coastal Plain During the Early Bronze Age
Faust, Avraham; Ashkenazy; Yosef
Black-Slipped and Burnished Pottery: A Special 7th-Century Technology in Jordan and Syria
Daviau, Michèle P.M.; Graham, Andrew J.
The Silver Coinage of Roman Syria Under the Julio-Claudian Emperors
Butcher, Kevin; Ponting, Matthew
Roman Byzantine Amphorae from a Terrestrial Site and its Underwater Environs: Horbat Castra and Kfar Samir (Southern Levant) as a Case Study
Haddad, Elie
A New View of the Pella Churches in Terms of Dating and Analysis: The Typological Context
Balderstone, Susan
A New Saljuq Inscription in the Masjid al-Aqsa, Jerusalem
Salameh, Khader
Reviews
Levant 40.2
Editorial
G. Philip
Stone Bead Technologies and Early Craft Specialization: Insights from
Two Neolithic Sites in Eastern Jordan
K.I.
Wright, et al.
The Possible Use of Acorns in Past Economies of the
Southern Levant: A Staple Food or a Negligible Food Source?
D. Rosenberg
The Terminology Used to Describe Tombs in the Nabataean
Inscriptions and its Architectural Context
M. Abdelaziz and S. Rababeh
Islamic Period Settlement in the Tell Leilan Region
(Northern Jazira): The Material Evidence from the 1995 Survey
B. Vezzoli
Reviews
Levant 40.1
Field Reports/Research Articles (Abstracts)
An Early Islamic Mosque in Palmyra
D. Genequand
Monolithic Pillars in Canaan: Reconsidering the Date of the High
Place at Gezer
D. Ben-Ami
The Cemetery of Azor and Early Iron Age Burial Practices
D. Ben-Shlomo
History from Geography: The Initial Route of the Via Nova Traiana in
Jordan
K.A. Borstad
The Roman Countryside in North-west Jordan (63 BC - AD 324)
L. el-Khouri
A Spatial and Morphological Analysis of Monastic Sites in the
Northern Limestone Massif, Syria
D. Hull
Fit for a (not-quite-so-great) King: A Faience Lion-Headed Cup from
Hazor
Sharon Zuckerman
List of Abbreviations
Levant 39
Field Reports/Research Articles (Abstracts)
"Holy Garbage": A Quantitative Study of the City-Dump of Early Roman
Jerusalem
G. Bar-Oz et al.
Site Diversity in Cyprus in the Late 5th Millennium cal. BC: Evidence
from Kalavasos Kokkinoyia
J. Clarke
The Context and Production of Incised Neolithic Stones
P.C. Edwards
Invoquer les esprits à la Citadelle de Damas ou
de l'usage d'une coupe magique ottomane
V. François
Stunning Bolts: Late Bronze Age Hunting Weapons in the Ancient Near
East
H. Genz
The Kefar Saba cemetery and differences in orientation of Late
Islamic burials from Israel/Palestine
A. Gorzalzcany
Fertility as an Element in Late Nabataean Beliefs: The Archaeological
Evidence Considered
Lamia el-Khouri
Intestinal parasitic worm eggs from a crusader period cesspool in the
city of Acre (Israel)
P.D. Mitchell and Y. Tepper
A Comparative Use-Wear Analysis of late
Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) chipped stone artefacts from the southern
Levant
Tobias Richter
Ancient Caravanserai: An Archaeological View
from 'Aroer
Y. Thareani-Sussely
Nabatean Edom: a demographic and archaeological
approach to modelling sedentarisation and regional dynamics
S. Twaissi
The Development Process of Philistine Material
Culture: Assimilation, Acculturation and Everything in between
J. Uziel
Losing One's Head in the Neolithic: On the
Interpretation of Headless Figurines
M. Verhoeven
The Iron Age II at Tell Nebi Mend: Towards an
Explanation of Ceramic Regions
M.R. Whincop
Archaeology in the Land of Carchemish: landscape
surveys in the area of Jerablus Tahtani, 2006
T.J. Wilkinson et al.
Book Notes
Notes for Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Levant 38
In Memoriam
O.H. Thompson
Kay Prag
Field Reports/Research Articles (Abstracts)
The Funeral Kit: A newly defined Canaanite mortuary practice based on
the Middle and Late Bronze Age tomb complex at Ashkelon
J.L. Baker
The Medieval Christian cemetery at Tel Jezreel
M. Bradley
Child health in the Crusader Period inhabitants of Tel Jezreel,
Israel
P.D. Mitchell
The Iron I-IIA in the highland and beyond: 14C anchors, pottery
phases and the Shoshenq I campaign
I. Finkelstein and E. Piasetzky
Some thoughts on Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, its dam, its monastery and
the Ghassanids
D. Genequand
The Chalcolithic in the central highlands of Palestine: A
reassessment based on a new examination of Khirbet es-Sauma'a
S. Gibson and Y.M. Rowan
Demography, the population of Syria and the census of Q. Aemilius
Secundus
D. Kennedy
Dion of the Decapolis. Tell al-Ash'arī
in southern Syria in the light of ancient documents and recent
discoveries
A. Kropp and Q. Mohammed
Brass chains from a public building in the area
of the bathhouse at Tiberias
A. Lester and Y. Hirschfeld
Planting pots at Petra: A preliminary study of
olae perforatae at the Petra Garden Pool Complex and at the
'Great Temple'
E.R. Macauley-Lewis
Ancient Jewish Style: Why were ossuaries and
southern oil lamps decorated?
E. Regev
'Coinage before coins?': A further response to
Raz Kletter
M. Silver
Hedonists or pragmatic agriculturalists?
Reassessing Hasmonean Jericho
D. Stacey
Ceramic evidence for beekeeping in Palestine in
the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
I. Taxel
Book Notes
Notes for Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Levant 37
In Memoriam
P.R.S. Moorey
Kay Prag
H.J. Franken
M. Steiner and A. van As
Field Reports/Research Articles (Abstracts)
The Wadi Sirhan Project: Report on the 2002 archaeological
reconnaisance of Wadi Hudruj and Jabal Tharwa, Jordan
A. Wasse and
G. Rollefson
Settlement and landscape development in the Homs region, Syria.
Report on work undertaken during 2001-2003
G. Philip et al.
Monastic archaeology in Syria. Excavations at Dayr Mar Eilan al-Sharqi,
Qaryatayn: A preliminary report on the 2001, 2002 and 2003 field seasons
E. Loosley and N. Finneran
Bayt al-Hawwari, a hawsh house at Sabastiya
M.H.
Burgoyne and M. Hawari
The Early Bronze Age fortifications of Tel Bet Yerah
R.
Greenberg and Y. Paz
The Canaanite Village: Social structure of Middle Bronze Age rural
communities
A. Faust
Byblos vs. Ugarit: The Alalakh seal impression 194 once again
S.J. Wimmer
A re-examination of the cuboid incense-burning altars from Flinders
Petrie's Palestinian excavations at Tell Jemmeh
J. Hassell
A Nabataean sanctuary at al-Mujib Nature Reserve: A preliminary
notice
T.M. Atiat
Coins from Faynan, Jordan
H.D. Kind et al.
Ceramics from the recent excavations near the eastern wall of Rafiqa
(Raqqa), Syria
M. Milwright
The faunal assemblages and taphonomic signatures of five striped
hyaena (hyaena hyaena syriaca) dens in the desert of eastern
Jordan
B. Kuhn
Book Notes
Notes for Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Levant 36
Field Reports/Research Articles (Abstracts)
More seals and sealings from Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad,
Syria
P.M.M.G. Akkermans and K. Duistermaat
More evidence for Early Bronze Age glyptics from the southern Levant
E. Braun
Gaza Research Project: 1998 survey of the Old City of
Gaza
J. Clarke et al.
Gaza Research Project: Report on the 1999 and 2000
seasons at al-Moghraqa
L. Steel et al.>
Sidon (Lebanon): Twenty Middle Bronze Age burials from the 2001
season of excavation
C. Doumet-Serhal
Scarabs from the Bronze Age tombs at Sidon (Lebanon)
J.H. Taylor
Human remains from Middle Bronze Age burials at Sidon,
Lebanon: the 2001 season
A. Ogden and H. Schutkowski
Survey of the remains of mammals recovered in the Middle Bronze Age
burials at Sidon (Lebanon) in 2001
E. Vila
Tel Rehov and Iron Age chronology
I. Finkelstein
Samaria: From the bedrock to the Omride Palace
N.
Franklin>
A silver-based monetary economy in the seventh century
BCE: A response to Raz Kletter
S. Gitin and A. Golani
Coinage before coins? A response
R. Kletter
The history of the Gihon spring in Jerusalem
R.
Reich and E. Shukron
Al-Bakhra (Avatha), from the Tetrarchic fort to the
Umayyad castle
D. Genequand
The palaeopathology of skulls recovered from a Medieval cave cemetery
near Safed, Israel (thirteenth to seventeenth century)
P.D. Mitchell
Bait Ur al-Fauqa: A Medieval and Ottoman village on the
ancient road between Jerusalem and the coastal plain
M. Hawari
Book Notes
Notes for Contributors
List of Abbreviations
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