Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2020
This report presents the results of an archaeological survey of Bureir--a village site of the Ott... more This report presents the results of an archaeological survey of Bureir--a village site of the Ottoman and British Mandate periods. Serious archaeological study of the 19th and 20th centuries C.E. in the Levant is still relatively new, and the intent of this survey was to provide archaeological data to use in tandem with the large amount of historical information available for this village. The survey materials yielded information about Bureir's economy and mode of subsistence as it changed through time, giving a detailed picture of a village within both local and regional contexts.
While female plaque figurines are generally considered to have connections with fertility, schola... more While female plaque figurines are generally considered to have connections with fertility, scholarship is still somewhat divided on whether this group of artifacts represents humans or goddesses, and if goddesses, which goddess in particular. Through the analysis of a plaque figurine found at the Iron II site of Khirbet Summeily, it is suggested that not only are plaque figurines indeed depictions of human women, but that they served as talismans of a specific stage of fertility, the days immediately following birth
... Journal of the American Oriental Society PEF Palestine Exploration Fund PEFQS Palestine Explo... more ... Journal of the American Oriental Society PEF Palestine Exploration Fund PEFQS Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly SBL Society of Biblical Literature SPC Syrian Protestant ... America was actively embraced as the new Zion. ...
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2020
This report presents the results of an archaeological survey of Bureir--a village site of the Ott... more This report presents the results of an archaeological survey of Bureir--a village site of the Ottoman and British Mandate periods. Serious archaeological study of the 19th and 20th centuries C.E. in the Levant is still relatively new, and the intent of this survey was to provide archaeological data to use in tandem with the large amount of historical information available for this village. The survey materials yielded information about Bureir's economy and mode of subsistence as it changed through time, giving a detailed picture of a village within both local and regional contexts.
While female plaque figurines are generally considered to have connections with fertility, schola... more While female plaque figurines are generally considered to have connections with fertility, scholarship is still somewhat divided on whether this group of artifacts represents humans or goddesses, and if goddesses, which goddess in particular. Through the analysis of a plaque figurine found at the Iron II site of Khirbet Summeily, it is suggested that not only are plaque figurines indeed depictions of human women, but that they served as talismans of a specific stage of fertility, the days immediately following birth
... Journal of the American Oriental Society PEF Palestine Exploration Fund PEFQS Palestine Explo... more ... Journal of the American Oriental Society PEF Palestine Exploration Fund PEFQS Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly SBL Society of Biblical Literature SPC Syrian Protestant ... America was actively embraced as the new Zion. ...
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