Bene Israel

Urban land use changes on the southeastern slope of tel Megiddo during the Middle Bronze Age / Eran Arie -- The appearance of rock-cut bench tombs in Iron Age Judah as a reflection of state formation / Alexander Fantalkin -- Trademarks of the Omride builders? / Norma Franklin -- Continuity and change in the Late Bronze to Iron Age transition in Israel's coastal plain: a long term perspective / Yuval Gadot -- Permanent and temporary settlements in the South of the lower Besor region: two case studies / Dan Gazit -- The socioeconomic implications of grain storage in early Iron Age Canaan: the case of tel Dan / David Ilan -- A re-analysis of the archaeological evidence for the beginning of the Iron Age I / Yitzhak Meitlis -- Reassessing the Bronze and Iron Age economy: sheep and goat husbandry in the Southern Levant as a model case study / Aharon Sasson -- Settlement patterns of Philistine city-states / Alon Shavit -- Levantine standardized luxury in the late Bronze Age: waste management at tell Atchana (Alalakh) / Amir Sumaka 'i Fink -- Desert outsiders: extramural neighborhoods in the Iron Age Negev / Yifat Thareani-Sussely -- A message in a jug: Canaanite, Philistine, and Cypriot iconography and the "Orpheus jug" / Assaf Yasur-Landau..

Includes bibliographical references (at the end of each chapter) and index..