TY - BOOK AU - Spencer,John R. AU - Mullins,Robert A. AU - Brody,Aaron J. TI - Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin SN - 9781575068787 AV - DS111.1.M384 2014eb U1 - 933 PY - 2014/// CY - University Park, PA PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- The Umayyad Pottery of Palestine -- Marked Jar Handles from Tel Miqne-Ekron -- The Southwestern Border of Judah in the Ninth and Eighth Centuries b.c.e. -- Interregional Interaction in the Late Iron Age: Phoenician and Other Foreign Goods from Tell en-Nasbeh -- Three Middle Bronze II Burials from Tel Zahara -- A Late Iron Age Cult Stand from Gezer -- Tomb Raiding in Western Ramallah Province, Palestine: An Ethnographic Study -- Lambs to the Slaughter: Late Iron Age Cultic Orientations at Philistine Ekron -- Competing Material Culture: Philistine Settlement at Tel Miqne-Ekronin the Early Iron Age -- Mother-and-Child Figurines in the Levant from the Late Bronze Age through the Persian Period -- The Evolution of the Sacred Area at Tell es-Sultan/Jericho -- "Ashdod Ware" from Ekron Stratum IV: Degenerated and Late Philistine Decorated Ware -- New Perspectives on the Chalcolithic Period in the Galilee: Investigations at the Site of Marj Rabba -- An Overview of Iron Age Gaza in Light of the Archaeological Evidence -- Tobacco Pipes and the Ophir Expedition to Southern Sinai: Archaeological Evidence of Tobacco Smoking among 18th- and 20th-Century Bedouin Squatters -- King David in Mujīr al-Dīn's Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem -- An Iron Age II Tomb at ʿAnata -- The Ups and Downs of Settlement Patterns: Why Sites Fluctuate -- The Horned Stands from Tell Afis and Hazor and the "Crowns" from Nahal Mishmar N2 - No detailed description available for "Material Culture Matters" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3155701 ER -