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Book SynopsisThis final report presents the archaeological finds from the Iron Age I (circa 1200-950 BCE) levels at Tel Dan, located on a tributary of the Jordan River, in the northeastern Hula Valley in northern Israel. The early Iron Age levels at Tel Dan show material evidence for the presence of local peoples, Egyptians, Cypriots, Aegeans and Syrians.
Table of ContentsPreface -
Andrew Rehfeld, President Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Natural Environment
Chapter 2: Stratigraphy and Architecture
(with a contribution by Ross Voss) Chapter 3: The Local Pottery
Chapter 4: Notes on the Philistine, Aegean and Cypriot-style Decorated Pottery
Alexander Zukerman Chapter 5: "Phoenician" Painted Ware
Thomas Beyl Chapter 6A: A Petrographic Study of Early Iron Age Containers at Tel Dan
Paula Waiman-Barak and Ayelet Gilboa Chapter 6B: Chemical and Petrographic Analysis of Aegean/Philistine Pottery from Tel Dan
David Ben-Shlomo Chapter 6C: Petrographic Analysis of Iron Age I Painted Pottery from Tel Dan
Nissim Golding-Meir Chapter 7: Ground Stone and Natural Stone Objects
Chapter 8: Scale Weights
Chapter 9: The Chipped Stone Assemblage
Conn Herriott Chapter 10: Use-wear Analysis of Sickle Blades
Shoh Yamada Chapter 11: The Metal Objects
Chapter 12: The Bone and Ivory Objects
Chapter 13: Seals and Impressions
Chapter 14: Various Objects of Stone, Faience, and Ceramic
Chapter 15: Figurines and Ritual Objects
Chapter 16: Ritual Contexts
Chapter 17: The Animal Bone Remains
Jonathan S. Greer, Deirdre Fulton, and Paula Wapnish Chapter 18: Archaeobotany
Chapter 19: Commodity Storage: Pits, Pithoi and Installations
Chapter 20: Chronology
Chapter 21: Conclusion: Economy, Society and Polity at Tel Dan in the Iron Age I
