Technological insights on philistine culture: Perspectives from tell es-Safi/Gath

Aren M. Maeir; David Ben-Shlomo; Deborah Cassuto; Jeffrey R. Chadwick; Brent Davis; Adi Eliyahu Behar; Suembikya Frumin; Shira Gur-Arieh; Louise A. Hitchcock; Liora K. Horwitz; Francesca Manclossi; Steven A. Rosen; Josephine Verduci; Ehud Weiss; Eric L. Welch; Vanessa Workman

doi:10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.7.1.0076

Technological insights on philistine culture: Perspectives from tell es-Safi/Gath

Aren M. Maeir, David Ben-Shlomo, Deborah Cassuto, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Brent Davis, Adi Eliyahu Behar, Suembikya Frumin, Shira Gur-Arieh, Louise A. Hitchcock, Liora K. Horwitz, Francesca Manclossi, Steven A. Rosen, Josephine Verduci, Ehud Weiss, Eric L. Welch, Vanessa Workman

Bar-Ilan University, Ariel University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	76-118
Number of pages	43
Journal	Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.7.1.0076
State	Published - 1 Jan 2019

Keywords

Aegean
Iron age
Levant
Philistines
Technology
Tell es-Safi/Gath

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Conservation
Archaeology
Archaeology

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Maeir, A. M., Ben-Shlomo, D., Cassuto, D., Chadwick, J. R., Davis, B., Behar, A. E., Frumin, S., Gur-Arieh, S., Hitchcock, L. A., Horwitz, L. K., Manclossi, F., Rosen, S. A., Verduci, J., Weiss, E., Welch, E. L., & Workman, V. (2019). Technological insights on philistine culture: Perspectives from tell es-Safi/Gath. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 7(1), 76-118. https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.7.1.0076

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