The Archaeological Chess Set by Ezra B. W. Zubrow & Ted Banning
Chess is a game associated with thought. The game’s history has been related to war and peace, science and the humanities, as well as engineering and art. It has been […]
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In the Footsteps of Bagira: ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’
This article has two aims. The first is to show that the search for ethnicity in archaeology is dependent on the way ethnicity is defined and on written sources. The second is to review studies of Iron Age I ‘ethnic Israel’. There is an ong…
Remaking the City: Archaeological Projects of Political Import in Jerusalem’s Old City and in the Village of Silwan
Since the mid-90s, archaeology has been a powerful tool for changing landscape and narrative in the Old City of Jerusalem and the village of Silwan – the “Historic Basin of Jerusalem”. As archaeological excavations relate directly to the ap…
Ethnicity and ‘the Myth of the Reborn Nation’: investigations in collective identity, monotheism and the use of figurines in Yehud during the Achaemenid period
The myth of the reborn nation’ was one of the results of my recent research on figurines, the history of the religion of Yehud, and the rise of monotheism. The purpose of this paper is presenting a discussion about ‘the myth of the reborn n…