Material culture matters [Texte imprimé] : essays on the archaeology of the Southern Levant in honor of Seymour Gitin / edited by John R. Spencer, Robert A. Mullins and Aaron J. Brody

Notes bibliogr.

Sy Gitin : A Fellow's Reminiscences / John R. Spencer -- Personal Reminiscences / Aaron J. Brody -- Bibliography of Seymour Gitin / Robert A. Mullins -- The Umayyad Pottery of Palestine / Marwan Abu Khalaf -- Marked Jar Handles from Tel Miqne-Ekron / David Ben-Shlomo -- The Southwestern Border of Judah in the Ninth and Eighth Centuries B.C.E. / Jeffrey A. Blakely, James W. Hardin, and Daniel M. Master -- Interregional Interaction in the Late Iron Age : Phoenician and Other Foreign Goods from Tell en-Nasbeh / Aaron Brody -- Three Middle Bronze II Burials from Tel Zahara / Susan L. Cohen and Wiesaw Wickowski -- A Late Iron Age Cult Stand from Gezer / Garth Gilmour -- Tomb Raiding in Western Ramallah Province, Palestine : An Ethnographic Study / Salah Hussein al-Houdalieh -- Lambs to the Slaughter : Late Iron Age Cultic Orientations at Philistine Ekron / Edward F. Maher -- Competing Material Culture : Philistine Settlement at Tel Miqne-Ekron in the Early Iron Age / Laura Mazow -- Mother-and-Child Figurines in the Levant from the Late Bronze Age through the Persian Period / Beth Alpert Nakhai -- The Evolution of the Sacred Area at Tell es-Sultan/Jericho / Hani Nur el-Din -- "Ashdod Ware" from Ekron Stratum IV Degenerated and Late Philistine Decorated Ware / Steven M. Ortiz -- New Perspectives on the Chalcolithic Period in the Galilee : Investigations at the Site of Marj Rabba / Yorke M. Rowan and Morag M. Kersel -- An Overview of Iron Age Gaza in Light of the Archaeological Evidence / Moain Sadeq -- Tobacco Pipes and the Ophir Expedition to Southern Sinai : Archaeological Evidence of Tobacco Smoking among 18th- and 20th-Century Bedouin Squatters / Benjamin Adam Saidel -- King David in Mujr al-Dn's Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem / Robert Schick -- An Iron Age II Tomb at Anata / Hamdan Taha -- The Ups and Downs of Settlement Patterns : Why Sites Fluctuate / Joe Uziel, Itzhaq Shai, and Deborah Cassuto -- The Horned Stands from Tell Afis and Hazor and the "Crowns" from Nahal Mishmar / Alexander Zukerman