Author Description

This is the first of two volumes presenting the results of the analyses of objects and material culture excavated in fourteen seasons from 1981 to 1996, covering a wide range of finds from the Middle Bronze II through the Iron Age II. Chapters include studies on flaked stone assemblages; stone tools and vessels; vessel plugs, covers, and reworked sherds; weights, scale pans, and miscellaneous small stones/objects; and zoomorphic terracottas. Technical studies involve microwear analysis of flint artifacts, archaeobotanical remains, forensic analysis of last-use living surface samples, geoarchaeological analysis of the landscape, geological provenancing of grindstones and other stone artifacts, and provenancing of asphalt.