Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age

Ido Koch is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University.

• AcknowledgementsIIList of FiguresXIntroduction1 Egyptian Colonialism and Canaan in Scholarship: an Overview2 Notes on Nomenclature3 Chronological Framework1 Dawn1 Decline and Revitalization of Settlements during the Late Bronze I2 The Advent of Egyptian-style Objects3 Reassessing the Levantine–Egyptian Interaction during the Late Bronze I2 The Egyptian Network1 Modeling the Egyptian Colonial Network2 Egyptian and Local Centers3 Local Rulers and the Egyptian Court3 Goddess in Translation: The Fosse Temple at Lachish1 Introducing the Fosse Temple in Lachish2 Assessing the Change3 Hathor and Tiye4 The Cult in the Fosse Temple in Context4 Ambivalence1 Building Deposits2 Conspicuous Consumption3 The Equestrian Goddess4 Range of Reactions5 Collapse1 Questioning the Philistine Paradigm2 In Search of the Early Philistines6 Regeneration1 The Yarkon Basin2 The Shephelah and the Coastal Plain3 The Besor Basin, or: the Problem with Gaza4 Retrospective7 Reorientations1 Animal-based Economy and Accumulation of Wealth2 Pottery Production and Communal Feasting3 Religion4 Interpreting Reorientations8 In the Eye of the Beholder1 The Egyptian Connection2 Canaanite Innovations3 Local Glyptic Production during the Iron Age I–IIASummary: Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron AgeAppendix: Chronology of Egyptian KingsBibliographyIndex