Wide Lens in Archaeology

Justin Lev-Tov was assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama Birmingham until 2005. He continues to conduct and publish zooarchaeological research as a part of various excavation projects in Israel and Jordan.Paula Wapnish Hesse was staff zooarchaeologist for the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon (Israel) from 1985 until the conclusion of excavations. She continues to research and publish on many of Ashkelon's unique features, such as the dog burials and the worked bone and ivory industries.Allan S. Gilbert is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. After early research in the zooarchaeology of the Near East, Gilbert has been engaged in geoarchaeology and the historical archaeology of New York City.

• Introduction: Bones as Building Blocks for Brian Hesse’s Social ArchaeologyBrian Hesse 1944–2011: Curriculum vitae    Abbreviations    Part 1: Contexts, Collections, and the Archaeo(zoo)logical RecordJeffrey A. Blakely and Inbar Ktalev - Identifying and Understanding Residuality in Tell el-Hesi’sArchaeological Record: The Malacological Evidence         Thomas H. McGovern, George Hambrecht, Seth Brewington, Frank Feeley, Ramona Harrison, Megan Hicks, Konrad Smiarowski, and James Woollett - Too Many Bones: Data Management and the NABONE Experience      Haskel J. Greenfield and Angela Beattie - A Practical Macroscopic Approach for Distinguishing Burned and Boiled Bones in Zooarchaeological Assemblages  Part 2: Peoples, Pigs, and Pots in PalestineLiora Kolska Horwitz, Armelle Gardeisen, Aren Maeir, and Louise A. Hithcock - A Contribution to the Iron Age Philistine Pig Debate       Edward F. Maher - Flair of the Dog: The Philistine Consumption of Canines            Yosef Garfinkel  - The Ethnic Identification of Khirbet Qeiyafa: Why It Matters      Avraham Faust - An All-Israelite Identity: Historical Reality or Biblical Myth?           Part 3: Ritual Real EstateJonathan S. Greer - “Cursed Be the Cheat Who Offers a Blemished Animal!” A Broken Tibia from a Sacrificial Deposit at Tel Dan and Its Implications for Understanding Israelite Religious PracticeJustin Lev-Tov - Can Bones Differentiate Royal Roast from Sacrificial Slaughter?The Case of Hazor’s Late Bronze Age Monumental Building           Deirdre N. Fulton, Paula Hesse, and Brian Hesse - Considering Carcasses: Sheep and Goat Sacrifice at Carthage, Tunisia, and Al Qisha, Yemen           Part 4: Buried BeastsLidar Sapir-Hen, Yuval Gadot, and Oded Lipschits - Ceremonial Donkey Burial, Social Status, and Settlement Hierarchy in the Early Bronze III: The Case of Tel Azekah Liora Kolska Horwitz, Daniel M. Master, and Hadas Motro - A Middle Bronze Age Equid from Ashkelon: A Case of Ritual Interment or Refuse Disposal?              Liora Kolska Horwitz, Samuel R. Wolff, and Steven Ortiz - The Context and Biometry of Iron Age II and Hellenistic Period Dog “Burials” from Tel Gezer Compared to Those from Other Sites in the Region          Part 5: Organization and Orientation of Animal EconomiesAharon Sasson   - Cattle Husbandry and the Survival Subsistence Strategy: A Zooarchaeological Perspective        Pam Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana  - Where Are Our Goats? The Role of Goats in Anglo-Saxon England  Bill Grantham, Daniel Lowrey, Hillary Boyd, and Samantha Earnest - Gallus Gallus during the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Israel    Part 6: Animal Use at Three Sites through the AgesDavid R. Lipovitch - A Preliminary Analysis on the Iron Age III Faunal Remains Tell Ta?yinat, Turkey (Ancient Kunulua)Tina Greenfield, Chris McKinny, and Itzhaq Shai  - “I Can Count All My Bones”: A Preliminary Report of the Late Bronze Faunal Remains from Area B1 at Tel Burna, Israel         Justin Lev-Tov, Sarah W. Kansa, Levent Atici, and Jane C. Wheeler - New Light on Faunal Remains from Chogha Mish, Iran              Indexes