Nomads of the Mediterranean: Trade and Contact in the Bronze and Iron Ages

Ayelet Gilboa is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Haifa in Israel, co-directing the Tel Dor and Shikmona projects. She published extensively on cross-Mediterranean interconnections; Phoenicians; "Sea Peoples"; Iron Age ceramic chrono-typology; and the symbolic properties of material culture. Assaf Yasur-Landau is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology and Head of the Leon Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa. He co-directed excavations at Kabri and Hazor, underwater excavations at Tel Dor and underwater surveys at the Carmel coast.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Professor Michal Artzy: A Scholarly Life by the MediterraneanAssaf Yasur-Landau and Ayelet GilboaProfessor Michal Artzy, Curriculum Vitae1 Tyre before Tyre: The Early Bronze Age FoundationMaría Eugenia Aubet2 Two Imported Pottery Vessels from the Middle Euphrates to the Southern Levant and Their Contribution to the Chronology of the End of Early Bronze I and the Beginning of Early Bronze IIVladimir Wolff Avrutis and Eli Yannai3 Burials of Domesticated Animals in the Middle Bronze Age Rampart at Tel ‘Akko in Light of Archaeological Finds in the Levant and Ceremonies from the Ancient Near EastRon Beeri, Hadas Motro, Noa Gerstel-Raban, and Michal Artzy4 “For the Wealth of the Sea Will Pass on to You”: Changes in Patterns of Trade from Southern Phoenicia to Northern Judah in the Late Iron Age and Persian PeriodsAaron Brody5 Cypriot Pottery from the Second Millennium BCE at Tell Keisan in the Lower Galilee (Israel)Mariusz Burdajewicz6Contextualization and Typology of Ancient Island Harbors in the Mediterranean: From Natural Hazards to Anthropogenic ImprintsMatthieu Giaime, Christophe Morhange, and Nick Marriner7 The Plain of Akko Regional Survey (PARS): An Integrated Use of GIS, Photogrammetry, and LiDAR to Reconstruct Akko’s HinterlandAnn E. Killebrew, Jane C. Skinner, Jamie Quartermaine, and Ragna Stidsing8 Piracy in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean? A Cautionary TaleA. Bernard Knapp9 Oxhides, Buns, Bits, and Pieces: Analyzing the Ingot Cargo of the Cape Gelidonya ShipwreckJoseph W.Lehner, Emre Kuruçayırlı, and Nicolle Hirschfeld10 The Presence of the Past: Ruin Mounds and Social Memory in Bronze and Early Iron Age Israel and GreeceJoseph Maran11 In the Footsteps of the Phoenicians in PaphosJolanta Młynarczyk12 Informed or at Sea: On the Maritime and Mundane in Ugaritic Tablet RS 94.2406Chris Monroe13 A Fragmentary Small Copper Oxhide Ingot from Tell Beit Mirsim at the James L. Kelso Bible Lands Museum, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological SeminaryCemal Pulak14 Lévi-Strauss and the Royal Ancestor Cult in the Bronze Age LevantMarísa Ruiz-Gálvez15 Phoenicians and CorinthSusan Sherratt16 The Aegean-Type Pottery from Tel NamiPhilipp W. Stockhammer17 The Rag-and-Bone Trade at Enkomi: Late Cypriot Scrap Metal and the Bronze IndustryStuart Swiny18 Sea Peoples from the Aegean: Identity, Sociopolitical Context, and AntecedentsAleydis Van de MoortelArchaeological Periods Index