Israel Finkelstein Bene Israel Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Founding Editor M. H. E. Weippert Editors-in-Chief Thomas Schneider Editors Eckart Frahm, W. Randall Garr, B. Halpern, Theo P. J. van den Hout, Irene J. Winter VOLUME 31 Bene Israel Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein edited by Alexander Fantalkin and Assaf Yasur-Landau LEIDEN • BOSTON 2008 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bene Israel : studies in the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron ages in honour of Israel Finkelstein / edited by Alexander Fantalkin and Assaf Yasur-Landau. p. cm. — (Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 31) Includes index. ISBN 978-90-04-15282-3 (alk. paper) 1. Bronze age—Palestine. 2. Iron age—Palestine. 3. Excavations (Archaeology)— Palestine. 4. Palestine—Antiquities. 5. Bronze age—Middle East. 6. Iron age—Mid- dle East. 7. Excavations (Archaeology)—Middle East. 8. Middle East—Antiquities. I. Fantalkin, Alexander. II. Yasur-Landau, Assaf. III. Finkelstein, Israel. IV. Title. V. Series. GN778.32.P19B45 2008 933—dc22 2008014960 ISSN 1566-2055 ISBN 978 90 04 15282 3 © Copyright 2008 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS Acknowledgments ....................................................................... vii List of Figures ............................................................................. ix Introduction ................................................................................ xv Urban Land Use Changes on the Southeastern Slope of Tel Megiddo during the Middle Bronze Age ............................ 1 Eran Arie The Appearance of Rock-Cut Bench Tombs in Iron Age Judah as a Reflection of State Formation .................................. 17 Alexander Fantalkin Trademarks of the Omride Builders? ........................................ 45 Norma Franklin Continuity and Change in the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Israel’s Coastal Plain: A Long Term Perspective ................................................................................... 55 Yuval Gadot Permanent and Temporary Settlements in the South of the Lower Besor Region: Two Case Studies .................................... 75 Dan Gazit The Socioeconomic Implications of Grain Storage in Early Iron Age Canaan: The Case of Tel Dan ........................ 87 David Ilan A Re-analysis of the Archaeological Evidence for the Beginning of the Iron Age I ...................................................... 105 Yitzhak Meitlis vi contents Reassessing the Bronze and Iron Age Economy: Sheep and Goat Husbandry in the Southern Levant as a Model Case Study ........................................................................................... 113 Aharon Sasson Settlement Patterns of Philistine City-States ............................. 135 Alon Shavit Levantine Standardized Luxury in the Late Bronze Age: Waste Management at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) .......................... 165 Amir Sumaka(cid:120)i Fink Desert Outsiders: Extramural Neighborhoods in the Iron Age Negev .......................................................................................... 197 Yifat Thareani-Sussely A Message in a Jug: Canaanite, Philistine, and Cypriot Iconography and the “Orpheus Jug” ......................................... 213 Assaf Yasur-Landau Index ........................................................................................... 231 Plates ........................................................................................... 247 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As the editors of present volume, we would like to express our thanks to a number of colleagues who had contributed significantly to its accomplishment. Inbal Samet spared no effort, helping immensely in preparation the manuscript for publication. Alon Shavit and Gocha R. Tsetskhladze has offered advice and help in a number of crucial points of the project. Baruch Halpern and Ephraim Lytle have read the entire manuscript, kindly providing their valuable comments, while Benjamin Sass, Eric H. Cline and David Ilan have kindly commented on several papers. We were privileged to have on our side Michiel Klein Swormink, Michael J. Mozina, and Jennifer Pavelko from the Brill staff, whose professional and dedicated work made the usually complicated task of producing an edited volume considerably simpler. Likewise, we would like to thank the editorial board of Brill’s Culture and History of the Ancient Near East series. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, this project could never has been materialized without the enthusiastic par- ticipation of our contributors. We have greatly enjoyed working with such knowledgeable, reliable and responsive colleagues as have come together for the present volume. A.F. A.Y.-L.