TY - JOUR
T1 - Technological insights on philistine culture
T2 - Perspectives from tell es-Safi/Gath
AU - Maeir, Aren M.
AU - Ben-Shlomo, David
AU - Cassuto, Deborah
AU - Chadwick, Jeffrey R.
AU - Davis, Brent
AU - Behar, Adi Eliyahu
AU - Frumin, Suembikya
AU - Gur-Arieh, Shira
AU - Hitchcock, Louise A.
AU - Horwitz, Liora K.
AU - Manclossi, Francesca
AU - Rosen, Steven A.
AU - Verduci, Josephine
AU - Weiss, Ehud
AU - Welch, Eric L.
AU - Workman, Vanessa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - More than a century of study of the Philistines has revealed abundant remains of their material culture. Concurrently, our understanding of the origins, developmental processes, and socio-political matrix of this fascinating culture has undergone major changes. Among other facets, Philistine technology has been discussed, but in our opinion, a broad view of its importance for understanding Philistine culture is still lacking. The more than twenty years of excavation at Tell es-Safi/Gath, one of the central sites in Iron Age Philistia, offer an opportunity to review a broad range of technology-related evidence from this site, and from this to suggest a current interpretation of Philistine technology within the broader picture of the Iron Age and the processes, mechanisms, interactions, and identity politics of this culture.
AB - More than a century of study of the Philistines has revealed abundant remains of their material culture. Concurrently, our understanding of the origins, developmental processes, and socio-political matrix of this fascinating culture has undergone major changes. Among other facets, Philistine technology has been discussed, but in our opinion, a broad view of its importance for understanding Philistine culture is still lacking. The more than twenty years of excavation at Tell es-Safi/Gath, one of the central sites in Iron Age Philistia, offer an opportunity to review a broad range of technology-related evidence from this site, and from this to suggest a current interpretation of Philistine technology within the broader picture of the Iron Age and the processes, mechanisms, interactions, and identity politics of this culture.
KW - Aegean
KW - Iron age
KW - Levant
KW - Philistines
KW - Technology
KW - Tell es-Safi/Gath
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071533088&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.7.1.0076
DO - 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.7.1.0076
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071533088
SN - 2166-3548
VL - 7
SP - 76
EP - 118
JO - Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
JF - Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
IS - 1
ER -