Life on the Farm in Late Medieval Jerusalem

Prof. Dr. Bethany J. Walker (PhD 1998, University of Toronto, Islamic art and archaeology) – Co-Director of the Khirbet Beit Mazmīl excavations and Co-PI of the Medieval Jerusalem Hinterland Project. Research Professor of Mamluk Studies and Director of the Research Unit of Islamic Archaeology at the University of Bonn (Germany). Author of Jordan in the Late Middle Ages: Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier (Chicago, 2011), editor of Reflections of Empire: Archaeological and Ethnographic Studies on the Pottery of the Ottoman Levant (Boston, 2009), and author of 65 scholarly articles. Founding editor of the Journal of Islamic Archaeology (Equinox) and Co-editor of Equinox’s Monographs in Islamic Archaeology.

• Table of ContentsList of Figures vii1 On Farmsteads and Terraced Fields: The Origins of the Medieval JerusalemHinterland Project 1, Bethany J. Walker2 Peasant Decision-Making in the Jerusalem Highlands: A Landscape Perspective 16, Yuval Gadot and Gideon Avni3 The Earliest Settlement on Telegraph Hill 24, Benjamin J. Dolinka, Nicolò Pini, and Zubair ʿAdawī4 Remnants of a “Feudal” Past: The Mamluk Estate 66, Benjamin J. Dolinka, Nicolò Pini, Bethany J. Walker, and Benyamin Storchan5 The Making of a Family Farmstead: Emergence and Demise of the Ottoman ‘Ezbeh 130, Bethany J. Walker, Benjamin J. Dolinka, Nicolò Pini, Roy Marom, and Benyamin Storchan6 Jerusalem’s Farmland Transformed: The Expansion of Agricultural Terracing 219, Omer Zeʿevi-Berger and Nitsan Ben-Melech7 Land Use and Foodways 2377.1: Evidence from Phytoliths 237, Sofia Laparidou and Georgia Kasapidou7.2: The Macrobotanical Record 253, Annette M. Hansen7.3: The Zooarchaeological Remains 306, Chiara A. Corbino8 Market Gardening in Medieval Jerusalem 316, Bethany J. Walker9 What Makes a Village? Social Networks and Resilience 334, Bethany J. WalkerAppendices 341App. 1: Full site plan 342, courtesy of Nicolò PiniApp. 2: Plan of North Building of the Northern Sector 343, courtesy of Nicolò PiniApp. 3: Plan of Stratum III (pre-Mamluk) 344, courtesy of Nicolò PiniApp. 4: Plan of Stratum II (Mamluk) 345, courtesy of Nicolò PiniApp. 5: Plan of Stratum Ib (Early Ottoman) 346, courtesy of Nicolò PiniApp. 6: Plan of Stratum Ia (Late Ottoman/Mandate) 347, courtesy of Nicolò PiniApp. 7: Summaries of representative entries on Beit Mazmīl in the Jerusalem sijills 348, courtesy of Ahmad al-GhizawatApp. 8: Chart of radiocarbon and OSL dates 358, courtesy of CologneAMSApp. 9: List of critical loci 364App. 10: Sketchfab—access to the three-dimensional models and instruction for use 367, courtesy of Nicolò PiniIndex 369