Tell es-Safi/Gath III: Studies on the Early Bronze Age, Part 1 New

Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath Archaeological Project commenced in 1996 and continued until the summer season of July 2021, which constituted the last largescale season of the project. Over the course of 25 years, as excavations, field surveys and various research on the archaeology, history and environment of this site was conducted, numerous publications relating to the project have appeared, including articles, chapters and volumes. Two previous volumes of the final reports have already appeared, dealing with various aspects relating to the site: Tell es-Safi/Gath I (ÄAT 69); Tell es-Safi/Gath II (ÄAT 105). The present, third volume of the final reports, is the first part of a sub-series of the final reports dedicated to the Early Bronze Age remains on the site. In this volume, the three upper levels (E5a, E5b, E5c), which were extensively investigated from 2004 until 2014, are described in detail. Next to the “Stratigraphy of the Early Bronze Age”, chapters are devoted, among others, to the “Lithic Assemblage”, the “Pottery Assemblage”, the “Basalt Ground Stone Objects”, “Isotope Analyses of Domestic Animal”, a “Ritual Domestic Donkey Burial” and “Copper Objects and their Provenance”.

Chapter 1: Preface and Introduction

(Aren M. Maeir, Haskel J. Greenfield and Itzhaq Shai)

Chapter 2: Area E: The Stratigraphy of the Early Bronze Age (2004-2014)

(Itzhaq Shai, Haskel J. Greenfield, Shira Albaz, Jon Ross and Aren M. Maeir)

Chapter 3: Early Bronze Age Fortifications and Finds in Area F

(Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Eric L. Welch and Aren M. Maeir)

Chapter 4: The Early Bronze Age III Pottery Assemblage

(Shira Albaz)

Chapter 5: Petrographic Analysis of Early Bronze Age III Pottery from Area E

(David Ben-Shlomo)

Chapter 6: Vessel Shaping at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath: A Scanning Method for Differentiating Chaînes Opératoires and New Perspectives on Changing Economies of the Early Bronze Age

(Jon Ross, Kent D. Fowler, Haskel J. Greenfield, Itzhaq Shai and Aren M. Maeir)

Chapter 7: An Early Bronze Age Ritual Domestic Donkey Burial from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel

(Haskel J. Greenfield, Tina L. Greenfield, Annie Brown, Jon Ross, Shira Albaz, Itzhaq Shai and Aren M. Maeir)

Chapter 8: Isotope Analyses of Domestic Animals at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (Area E): Evidence for Economic and Cultural Ties between the Early Bronze Age City of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath and the Nile Valley

(Elizabeth R. Arnold, Gideon Hartman, Haskel J. Greenfield, Lindsay Babcock and Aren M. Maeir)

Chapter 9: The Early Bronze Age Lithic Assemblage from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

(Francesca Manclossi and Steven A Rosen)

Chapter 10: Reconstructing the Life-History of Basalt Ground Stone Objects from EB III Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel

(Jeremy A. Beller)

Chapter 11: Report on the EB III Ground Stone Assemblage from Area E, Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, the 2004–2013 Seasons

(Jeremy A. Beller, Haskel J. Greenfield, Itzhaq Shai, Shira Albaz and Aren M. Maeir)

Chapter 12: Preliminary Results of Phytolith Analysis in the Early Bronze Age Levels of Area E

(Dan Cabanes)

Chapter 13: The Copper Objects and their Provenance

(Adi Eliyahu-Behar and Naama Yahalom-Mack)

Chapter 14: Integrated Macro and Micro-Archaeological Research in the Early Bronze Age Strata at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

(Adi Eliyahu-Behar)

Chapter 15: The Ground Penetrating Radar Survey in Area E

(Jessie A. Pincus)

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