Interregional Trade And Exchange At Early Bronze Age Tell Es-Safi/Gath

Previous articleNext article No AccessARTICLESInterregional Trade and Exchange at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/GathElizabeth Arnold, Jeremy Beller, Adi Behar, David Ben-Shlomo, Tina L. Greenfield, and Haskel J. GreenfieldElizabeth Arnold Search for more articles by this author , Jeremy Beller Search for more articles by this author , Adi Behar Search for more articles by this author , David Ben-Shlomo Search for more articles by this author , Tina L. Greenfield Search for more articles by this author , and Haskel J. Greenfield Search for more articles by this author Elizabeth R. Arnold is associate professor at Grand Valley State University. Her research interests include palaeobotany (phytolith analyses), ethnozooarchaeology, pastoralism, and the Secondary Products Revolution. Her primary interest is the documentation of exchanges that may indicate economic, political and social exchanges of animals that are important in the rise of complex societies.Jeremy A. Beller is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, BC. His research focuses on the nature of ground and chipped stone economies of the southern Levant during the Early Bronze Age, as well as the survival and adaptation of Middle Pleistocene hominins at a desert refugium in the Azraq Basin, Jordan, as part of the Azraq Marshes Archaeological and Paleoecological Project.Adi Eliyahu-Behar is a chemist trained in archaeology. Her main interest lies in the reconstruction and understanding of ancient pyro-technological processes, such as the production of metals, plaster, ceramic and glass. She joined the Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath Archaeological Project in 2013 as a research fellow, coordinating Archaeological Science research in general, with a special focus on the Early Bronze Age remains.David Ben-Shlomo is an associate professor at the Department of the Archaeology and Land of Israel Studies at Ariel University. His main research interests are southern Levantine archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages, ancient iconography, and the analytical study of pottery and ceramic materials employing petrographic analysis. He has been conducting petrographic analysis on the Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath pottery for the past fifteen years.Tina L. Greenfield is an archaeologist whose interests lie in the earliest empires of the ancient world. She teaches Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Saskatchewan, is co-director of the Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Lab at the University of Manitoba, and is also a visiting research scholar at the University of Cambridge. She is also the senior zooarchaeologist for two projects in Israel, Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (EB strata) and Tell Burna.Haskel Greenfield is distinguished professor of anthropology, co-director of the Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Lab, and coordinator of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He is an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on the evolution of early agricultural and early complex societies in the Old World from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. He is currently co-director (with Prof. Aren Maeir, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) of the excavations of the Early Bronze Age city at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel.PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Near Eastern Archaeology Volume 80, Number 4December 2017 A journal of ASOR Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5615/neareastarch.80.4.0264 Views: 35Total views on this site Copyright 2017 American Schools of Oriental ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.