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Seymour (Sy) Gitin is Emeritus Dorot Director and Professor of Archaeology at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and the author of numerous volumes, including his recent memoir, The Road Taken: An Archaeologist's Journey to the Land of the Bible, also available from Eisenbrauns.

• Preface ixSeymour GitinMap of Philistine Coastal Plain and Shephelah sites in the Iron Age xiTel Miqne-Ekron revised top plan xiiAerial view of Tel Miqne-Ekron xiiiTel Miqne-Ekron Middle Bronze Age II–Iron Age I Stratigraphic and Chronological Chart xivTel Miqne-Ekron Iron Age II Stratigraphic and Chronological Chart xvTel Miqne-Ekron Field Reports xviObjectsChapter 1: Sickles in Sockles: The Tel Miqne-Ekron Flaked Stone Assemblage 1Ann RoshwalbChapter 2: Stone Tools and Vessels from the Bronze and Iron Ages 45Ianir MilevskiChapter 3: Vessel Plugs and Covers and Reworked Ceramics: Typology, Context, and Function 99Gary P ArbinoChapter 4: Weights, Scale Pans, and Miscellaneous Small Stones/Objects 165Raz KletterChapter 5: Zoomorphic Terracottas 187David Ben-ShlomoMaterial Culture StudiesChapter 6: Microwear Analysis of Flint Artifacts from the Early Iron Age in Field I(Sondage and Summit), Field III, and Field IV Lower 255Mark S BeckerChapter 7: Archaeobotanical Remains 269Yael Mahler-Slasky and Mordechai E KislevChapter 8: Forensic Science Applied to Archaeology: Last Use Analysis of Living Surface SamplesCollected in the 1996 Season 303Azriel GorskiChapter 9: Geoarchaeological Report: Analysis of the Landscape of Tel Miqne and Its EnvironmentalEvolution 327Arlene M Rosen, Daniel Wachs, and Oren AckermannChapter 10: Analysis and Geological Provenancing of Grindstones and Other Stone Artifacts 341Olwen Williams-ThorpeChapter 11: Reprinted Abstract: Asphalt in Iron Age Excavations from the Philistine Tel Miqne-EkronCity (Israel): Origin and Trade Routes 357Jacques Connan, Arie Nissenbaum, Kendra Imbus, John Zumberge, and Steve MackoColor Figures 359Color Photos 365Appendix 3A 371Gary P ArbinoAppendix 5A 444David Ben-ShlomoBibliographic Abbreviations 473