Domestic Waste as a Window into Crusader-Period Le Lyon (Kibbutz Megiddo/Lajjun, Israel): Insights from a Household Midden and Its Ceramic Assemblage

Edna J. Stern; Anastasia Shapiro; Matthew J. Adams; Nimrod Marom; Inbar Ktalav; Yotam Tepper

doi:10.1086/728589

Domestic Waste as a Window into Crusader-Period Le Lyon (Kibbutz Megiddo/Lajjun, Israel): Insights from a Household Midden and Its Ceramic Assemblage

Edna J. Stern, Anastasia Shapiro, Matthew J. Adams, Nimrod Marom, Inbar Ktalav, Yotam Tepper

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The 2017 salvage excavation conducted at the site of Lajjun within Kibbutz Megiddo, Israel, revealed layers of refuse, primarily ceramics, constituting a household midden with finds indicating a 12th-century date and a Frankish cultural affinity. The midden can be associated with the occupation of the ancient settlement of Lajjun by Frankish settlers intermittently in the 12th and 13th centuries C.E. representing a first archaeological window into the Frankish activity at the site and complementing the historical data on the village known from Crusader sources as Le Lyon (Lajjun).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	47-75
Number of pages	29
Journal	Bulletin of ASOR
Volume	391
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/728589
State	Published - May 2024

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Keywords

Crusader period
Lajjun (Israel)
Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
medieval ceramics
midden archaeology

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