The birth, life and death of an Iron Age house at Tel ‘Eton, Israel

Avraham Faust; Hayah Katz; Yair Sapir; Assaf Avraham; Ofer Marder; Guy Bar-Oz; Ehud Weiss; Chen Auman-Chazan; Anat Hartmann-Shenkman; Tehila Sadiel; Oren Vilnay; Michael Tsesarsky; Pariente Sarah; Oren Ackermann; Natasha Timmer; Ofir Katz; Dafna Langgut; Mordechay Benzaquen

doi:10.1080/00758914.2017.1388027

The birth, life and death of an Iron Age house at Tel ‘Eton, Israel

Avraham Faust, Hayah Katz, Yair Sapir, Assaf Avraham, Ofer Marder, Guy Bar-Oz, Ehud Weiss, Chen Auman-Chazan, Anat Hartmann-Shenkman, Tehila Sadiel, Oren Vilnay, Michael Tsesarsky, Pariente Sarah, Oren Ackermann, Natasha Timmer, Ofir Katz, Dafna Langgut, Mordechay Benzaquen

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Abstract

Using a biographic-like approach, this article presents the initial results of the study of an elite Iron Age house at Tel ‘Eton, from its conception, through its birth and life, to its death and decomposition. Massive preparations preceded the construction of the house, and the latter incorporated continuous foundations, and quality building materials, including ashlar stones. The building was pre-planned, and some of the original rooms had two doorways leading to them, in order to enable easy future sub-division, without endangering the structure's physical integrity. The house evolved over the years, and its inner division changed overtime, reflecting the changes in the life-cycle of the extended family that lived in it. The house was destroyed in heavy conflagration in the late 8th century BC; hundreds of artifacts and complete vessels were unearthed below and within the debris, allowing for a detailed reconstruction of the use of space within the building on the eve of its destruction and the processes that accompanied its destruction (perhaps even ‘execution’), and subsequent collapse.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	136-173
Number of pages	38
Journal	Levant
Volume	49
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2017.1388027
State	Published - 4 May 2017

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We would also like to thank Dan Cabanes and David Friesem who studied formation processes during the 2009 season and supplied some of the FTIR results and additional information, and to Ruth Shahack-Gross, who supervised them as part of the ERC Ancient Israel project, and Israel Finkelstein and Steve Weiner, who headed the project. D. Langgut acknowledges the support of the Israel Science Foundation grant no. 2141/15 (‘New Equipment Grant’).

Funding Information:
The writing of this article and the research leading to it were supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (no. 284/11; ‘The Birth, Life and Death of a Four-Room House at Tel ‘Eton’).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © Council for British Research in the Levant 2017.

Keywords

construction
destruction
four-room houses
household archaeology
use of Space

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Archaeology
History
Archaeology

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Faust, A., Katz, H., Sapir, Y., Avraham, A., Marder, O., Bar-Oz, G., Weiss, E., Auman-Chazan, C., Hartmann-Shenkman, A., Sadiel, T., Vilnay, O., Tsesarsky, M., Sarah, P., Ackermann, O., Timmer, N., Katz, O., Langgut, D., & Benzaquen, M. (2017). The birth, life and death of an Iron Age house at Tel ‘Eton, Israel. Levant, 49(2), 136-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2017.1388027

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The birth, life and death of an Iron Age house at Tel ‘Eton, Israel

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