Excavations at Tel Kabri
The 2005–2011 Seasons
Series: - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 111
Tel Kabri, located in the western Galilee region of modern Israel several kilometers inland from modern Acco and Nahariyya, was the center of a Canaanite polity during the Middle Bronze Age (MB). Initial excavations conducted at the site from 1986 to 1993 revealed the remains of a palace dating primarily to the Middle Bronze Age II period, during the first half of the second millennium BCE. Excavations were resumed at the site in 2005 under the co-direction of the present editors, Assaf Yasur-Landau and Eric H. Cline. This volume presents the results of the work done at Tel Kabri from 2005 to 2011.
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Assaf Yasur-Landau, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv University, 2003), is head of the Leon Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa. His published works include numerous articles and The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Eric H. Cline, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1991), is Professor of Classics and Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington DC. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press, 2014).
Eric H. Cline, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1991), is Professor of Classics and Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington DC. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press, 2014).
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction and Overview of the Kabri Archaeological Project, 2005–2011
Eric H. Cline and Assaf Yasur-Landau
2 History of Archaeological Explorations at Tel Kabri
Henry Curtis Pelgrift
3 Area D-West
The 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2011 Seasons
Nurith Goshen and Alexandra Ratzlaff
4 Area D-North
The 2005–2011 Seasons
Nurith Goshen and Alexandra Ratzlaff
5 Area D-South 1
The 2005–2011 Seasons
Inbal Samet and Celia J. Bergoffen
6 Area D-South 2/F
The 2005, 2009, and 2011 Seasons
Alexandra Ratzlaff
The Pottery
7a Pottery of the 2005 Season
Nurith Goshen, Inbal Samet, and Assaf Yasur-Landau
7b Pottery of the 2008–2011 Seasons
Inbal Samet
7c Cypriot Pottery
Celia J. Bergoffen
7d Petrographic Analysis of Middle Bronze Age Pottery from the 2009 Season
David Ben-Shlomo
The Frescoes
8a Painted Plaster at Tel Kabri
State of Research
Nurith Goshen
8b Analysis of the Painted Plaster Fragments from the 2008–2011 Seasons
Ravit Linn
The Miscellaneous Finds
9a Small Finds
Alexandra Ratzlaff with an Appendix by Nurith Goshen
9b Scarab
Daphna Ben-Tor
Analyses (2008–2011)
10a Organic Residue Analysis
Andrew J. Koh
10b Faunal Remains from the 2005–2011 Seasons
Nimrod Marom
10c Microvertebrate Faunal Remains from the 2005–2011 Seasons
Lior Weissbrod
10d Radiocarbon Dates
Felix Höflmayer, Michael W. Dee, Brita Lorentzen, and Simone Riehl
11 Looking Ahead
Strategies Moving Forward and Synthesis of Stratigraphic Sequences
Assaf Yasur-Landau and Eric H. Cline
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction and Overview of the Kabri Archaeological Project, 2005–2011
Eric H. Cline and Assaf Yasur-Landau
2 History of Archaeological Explorations at Tel Kabri
Henry Curtis Pelgrift
Part 1 Stratigraphy and Architecture
3 Area D-West
The 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2011 Seasons
Nurith Goshen and Alexandra Ratzlaff
4 Area D-North
The 2005–2011 Seasons
Nurith Goshen and Alexandra Ratzlaff
5 Area D-South 1
The 2005–2011 Seasons
Inbal Samet and Celia J. Bergoffen
6 Area D-South 2/F
The 2005, 2009, and 2011 Seasons
Alexandra Ratzlaff
Part 2 The Finds
The Pottery
7a Pottery of the 2005 Season
Nurith Goshen, Inbal Samet, and Assaf Yasur-Landau
7b Pottery of the 2008–2011 Seasons
Inbal Samet
7c Cypriot Pottery
Celia J. Bergoffen
7d Petrographic Analysis of Middle Bronze Age Pottery from the 2009 Season
David Ben-Shlomo
The Frescoes
8a Painted Plaster at Tel Kabri
State of Research
Nurith Goshen
8b Analysis of the Painted Plaster Fragments from the 2008–2011 Seasons
Ravit Linn
The Miscellaneous Finds
9a Small Finds
Alexandra Ratzlaff with an Appendix by Nurith Goshen
9b Scarab
Daphna Ben-Tor
Part 3 Environmental and Physical Studies
Analyses (2008–2011)
10a Organic Residue Analysis
Andrew J. Koh
10b Faunal Remains from the 2005–2011 Seasons
Nimrod Marom
10c Microvertebrate Faunal Remains from the 2005–2011 Seasons
Lior Weissbrod
10d Radiocarbon Dates
Felix Höflmayer, Michael W. Dee, Brita Lorentzen, and Simone Riehl
Part 4 Conclusions
11 Looking Ahead
Strategies Moving Forward and Synthesis of Stratigraphic Sequences
Assaf Yasur-Landau and Eric H. Cline
Index
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