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This is the first of two volumes presenting the results of the analyses of objects and material culture excavated in fourteen seasons from 1981 to 1996, covering a wide range of finds from the Middle Bronze II through the Iron Age II. Chapters include studies on flaked stone assemblages; stone tools and vessels; vessel plugs, covers, and reworked sherds; weights, scale pans, and miscellaneous small stones/objects; and zoomorphic terracottas. Technical studies involve microwear analysis of flint artifacts, archaeobotanical remains, forensic analysis of last-use living surface samples, geoarchaeological analysis of the landscape, geological provenancing of grindstones and other stone artifacts, and provenancing of asphalt.

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Seymour (Sy) Gitin is Emeritus Dorot Director and Professor of Archaeology at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and the author of numerous volumes, including his recent memoir, The Road Taken: An Archaeologist's Journey to the Land of the Bible, also available from Eisenbrauns.

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