Material, Method and Meaning: Papers in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology in Honor of Ilan Sharon (Agypten und Altes Testament, 110)

Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Publications - Ilan Sharon
Gilboa: 
Professor Ilan Sharon, A Comprehensively Biased Introduction
Part I: Archaeological Methods 
and Epistemologies
Maran: Archaeological Cultures, Fabricated Ethnicities and DNA Research: 
“Minoans” and “Mycenaeans” as Case Examples
Greenberg: 
Redundancy, Plurality, and the Digital Archaeological Record
Wachtel: Archaeological Predictive Modeling for the Mountainous 
Upper Galilee
Streit: Disentangling a Confusion of Tongues—On Chronological Schemes, Terminologies, and Radiocar
bon Dating in the Eastern Mediterranean
Tamberino / Levy: 
Applications of Drone Photogrammetry at Tel Dor, Israel
Münger / Weinblum: 
The Archaeological Documentation System DANA (Digital Archaeology and National Archives): A View from the Field
Part II: 
Dor
Martin / Shalev: The Reoccupation of Southern Phoenicia in the Persian Period: 
Rethinking the Evidence
Sapir-Hen / Shalev: 
Animal Rituals from the Persian Period at Tel Dor
Monnickendam-Givon: 
In Search of “Ptolemaic” Dor
Nitschke: A Hellenistic Glass Pendant of a Child Deity (Harpokrates) 
from Tel Dor
Broers: 
A Late Bronze Age Gold Bull Head Pendant from Tel Dor
Yasur-Landau / Shalev: 
The Date of the Tel Dor Well and Its Contribution to the Study of Sea-Level Changes
Part III: 
Phoenician Connections
Maeir: Between Philistia, Phoenicia, and Beyond: 
A View from Tell es-Safi/Gath
Mazar: 
On the Relations between Phoenicia and the Beth-Shean Valley in the Iron Age
Katz: 
Phoenician Presence in the Upper Galilee during Iron Age II
Panitz-Cohen: 
An Iron Age IIA Phoenician Bichrome Jar from Tel Abel Beth Maacah
Brandl / Yahalom-Mack: A Clay Pendant with an Impression of a Phoenician 
Seagoing Ship from Tel Abel Beth Maacah
Part IV: 
Iron Age History and Archaeology
Shalvi / Gilboa: 
The Last Four-Room House in Israel: Stratum 10 at Tel Shiqmona in Context
Binfil / Zarzecki-Peleg: “The iron which the king, my lord, gave to the smiths for work”: Aspects of Authority and Prestige in the City Plan of Hazor 
Stratum VIII
Zorn: Standing on Hole-y Ground: 
The Storage Pits at Tell en-Naṣbeh and the Role of the State
Kletter: Farewell, King Arawna: 
The Threshing Floor of the Ark (2 Sam. 24)
Garfinkel: The Border of Gezer and the Border of Gath: 
Elite Control of Land in Ancient Near Eastern Cities
Epilogue
Kranot / Neuman: “When in doubt, open a new locus; when not so in doubt, Twilight-Zone it”: 
The Educational Legacy of Ilan Sharon—An Associative-Multidisciplinary Archaeologist
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