Trude Dothan & David Ben-Shlomoin A.E. Killebrew & G. Lehmann (eds), 2013. The Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology [Archaeological and Biblical Studies 15], Atlanta/Georgia, 29-35.
Philistine pottery was recognized over a hundred years ago and was linked to the material culture of the Philistines during the early Iron Age in Philistia. Trude Dothan's work (1982) summarized the Aegean characteristics of this culture and created a comprehensive framework for it, based on the information available up to the early 1970s.
Linda Meibergin A.E. Killebrew & G. Lehmann (eds), 2013. The Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology [Archaeological and Biblical Studies 15], Atlanta/Georgia, 131-144.
Several sites in Israel have yielded a type of zoomorphic ceramic vessel whose lower part was molded into the shape of an animal's face that most resembles a lion, or more precisely, a lioness. The faint traces of bichrome decoration preserved in red and black paint, as well as the find contexts for those uncovered in systematic excavations, clearly indicate that these vessels are to be classified within the Philistine cultural sphere.
Gunnar Lehmannin A.E. Killebrew & G. Lehmann (eds), 2013. The Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology [Archaeological and Biblical Studies 15], Atlanta/Georgia, 265-344.
Understanding and explaining the transition from Late Bronze Age to Iron Age in the Levant with its changes and continuities remains a major challenge for archaeology. Among the new elements appearing during the Iron Age in the Levant are decorated ceramics of the LH IIIC (LH IIIC) tradition.
Penelope A. Mountjoyin A.E. Killebrew & G. Lehmann (eds), 2013. The Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology [Archaeological and Biblical Studies 15], Atlanta/Georgia, 53-75.
Excavations at Tel Miqne have taken place on the acropolis in Field INE in the center of the tell in Field IVNW, in the southern part in Field III, and on the western slope in Field XNW. The material studied here comes from Fields I, IV, and X.
Elizabeth Frenchin A.E. Killebrew & G. Lehmann (eds), 2013. The Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology [Archaeological and Biblical Studies 15], Atlanta/Georgia, 345-347.
During the course of the 2001 workshop on the Philistines and other "Sea Peoples" and its many useful presentations and discussions, I came to the conclusion that, as I had previously suspected, there was only one point in the pottery development of the twelfth century to which on present evidence we can assign first impetus for the phenomenon that we had met to study.
Susan Sherratt & Amihai Mazarin A.E. Killebrew & G. Lehmann (eds), 2013. The Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology [Archaeological and Biblical Studies 15], Atlanta/Georgia, 349-392.
A restorable stirrup jar and fragments of two other stirrup jars from Level VI of the University of Pennsylvania excavations at Beth Shean were published over thirty years ago by V. Hankey and have since continued to provide the only direct link between imported Late Helladic (LH) IIIC pottery and Egyptian historical chronology.
Michael B. CosmopoulosAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.3 (July 2014): 401-427.
Religious continuity from the Mycenaean to the Geometric period is one of the thorniest issues in Greek archaeology. The problems created by the scantiness of the evidence are compounded by our own methodological pitfalls, especially the ambiguity of the term “continuity.”
Panagiota A. PantouAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.3 (July 2014): 369–400.
Early Mycenaean (Late Helladic [LH] II–IIIA1) Greece witnessed major changes in the built environment, including new types of mortuary architecture and the appearance of corridor buildings (a megaron-type structure with an interior corridor and subsidiary rooms).
Barry Molloy, Jo Day, Sue Bridgford, Valasia Isaakidou, Eleni Nodarou, Georgia Kotzamani, Marina Milić, Tristan Carter, Polly Westlake, Vera Klontza-Jaklova, Ellinor Larsson & Barbara J. HaydenAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.2 (April 2014): 307-358.
In 2010, a portion of a well-preserved domestic building dating to the later part of Early Minoan (EM) I was excavated at Priniatikos Pyrgos, east Crete. Though only a small portion of this house was available to investigate, there was clear evidence for several architectural and habitation phases.
Giorgos VavouranakisAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.2 (April 2014): 197-222.
Toward the end of the third millennium B.C.E., Minoan funerary customs changed, and people began to favor the use of clay receptacles - pithoi or larnakes - for the bodies of the dead. This article offers a comprehensive study of the funerary pithoi of the period, comprising a review of the available material and its classification, distribution, and dating, the relation of container to tomb types, and the specific use of pithoi within funerary ritual.
Kenneth Wardle, Thomas Higham & Bernd KromerPLoS ONE 9(9): e106672. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106672
Over 60 recent analyses of animal bones, plant remains, and building timbers from Assiros in northern Greece form an unique series from the 14th to the 10th century BC. With the exception of Thera, the number of 14C determinations from other Late Bronze Age sites in Greece has been small and their contribution to chronologies minimal.
Andrew J. Koh, Assaf Yasur-Landau & Eric H. ClinePLoS ONE 9(8): e106406. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106406
Scholars have for generations recognized the importance of wine production, distribution, and consumption in relation to second millennium BC palatial complexes in the Mediterranean and Near East. However, direct archaeological evidence has rarely been offered, despite the prominence of ancient viticulture in administrative clay tablets, visual media, and various forms of documentation.
