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Daniel M. Master is Jonathan Blanchard Professor of Archaeology at Wheaton College and was codirector of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon from 2007 to 2016. He currently oversees the publication of the Ashkelon final report series and is codirector of the ongoing excavations at Tel Shimron. He is also coeditor of Dothan I: Remains from the Tell (1953–1964) and general editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology.Adam J. Aja is Chief Curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and chief stratigrapher at the Tel Shimron excavations. He served as grid supervisor and later as assistant director for the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon. He also worked for several seasons at the Tel Miqne-Ekron excavations and at Tel Tayinat in Turkey.Rachel Kalisher is a bioarchaeologist whose research focuses on life history, kinship, and maternity in antiquity. She has been with the Ashkelon team since 2015 and is also the staff bioarchaeologist at the nearby Tel Shimron and Tel Megiddo excavations.

• Abbreviations Contributors Photographic Credits Editor’s Preface Authors’ Preface Part One: Historical Setting, Architecture, and Stratigraphy1. The Context of the Discoveries in Grid N5 at AshkelonDaniel M. Master, Adam J. Aja, and Simeon D. Ehrlich 2. Stratigraphic Summary of the N5 Iron Age CemeteryAdam J. Aja and Daniel M. Master Square 64 Simeon D. Ehrlich 3. Data Recording and Spatial Analysis George A. Pierce Part Two: Catalog of Burials4. Catalog of Burials Adam J. Aja, Rachel Kalisher, Daniel M. Master, and George A. Pierce Part Three: Artifacts5. Pottery Daniel M. Master 6. Metal Artifacts Adam J. Aja 7. Beads and Pendants Joshua T. Walton and Adam J. Aja 8. Stamp Seals and a Cylinder Seal Noa Ranzer and Ido Koch Part Four: Human and Faunal Remains9. Bioarchaeological Results from the N5 Iron Age CemeteryRachel Kalisher, Sherry C. Fox, Kathryn E. Marklein, and Marina Faerman 10. The Non-Human Faunal Remains from Grid N5 Deirdre N. Fulton and Christina Olson Part Five: Archaeometric Analyses 11. Radiocarbon Dates from the Ashkelon N5 Iron Age CemeteryElisabetta Boaretto, Larisa Goldenberg, and Daniel M. Master 12. Analysis of Burials from the N5 Iron Age Cemetery at Ashkelon for theEggs of Intestinal Parasites Tianyi Wang and Piers D. Mitchell Part Six: Conclusion13. The Philistine Cemetery at AshkelonDaniel M. Master, Adam J. Aja, and Rachel Kalisher Bibliography Concordance of Stratigraphic Contexts Index