Davidovich Uri, Yahalom-Mack Naama, Matskevich Sveta (Eds.). Material, Method and Meaning: Papers in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology in Honor of Ilan Sharon

Zaphon, 2022. — 444 p. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 110).This volume is a collection of studies dedicated to Ilan Sharon, Professor of Biblical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the longtime co-director of the Tel Dor Archaeological Project. The volume is divided into four sections reflecting the main avenues in his scholarly career.
The articles of the first section discuss a wide range of methodological and epistemological themes related to archaeological field practices, analyses and interpretations.
The second section of the volume is dedicated to Tel Dor, the archeological site so identified with Ilan Sharon, and deals with a wide range of finds and themes from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. Most of the articles are devoted to the first millennium BCE, the timespan for which Tel Dor serves as one of the key sites in studying the cultural trajectory of the Levantine coast and intercultural contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean basin.
These contacts, which form a major module in the scholarship of the Phoenician world, constitute the subject of the third part of the volume, devoted to the cultural connections between the coastal region of southern Phoenicia, and Dor specifically, and inland regions of the Levant.
The fourth and final part of the volume is devoted to studies in the archeology and history of the Iron Age Levant.Part I: Archaeological Methods and EpistemologiesMaran: Archaeological Cultures, Fabricated Ethnicities and DNA Research: “Minoans” and “Mycenaeans” as Case Examples
Greenberg: Redundancy, Plurality, and the Digital Archaeological Record
Wachtel: Archaeological Predictive Modeling for the Mountainous Upper Galilee
Streit: Disentangling a Confusion of Tongues—On Chronological Schemes, Terminologies, and Radiocarbon Dating in the Eastern Mediterranean
Tamberino / Levy: Applications of Drone Photogrammetry at Tel Dor, Israel
Münger / Weinblum: The Archaeological Documentation System DANA (Digital Archaeology and National Archives): A View from the FieldPart II: DorMartin / Shalev: The Reoccupation of Southern Phoenicia in the Persian Period: Rethinking the Evidence
Sapir-Hen / Shalev: Animal Rituals from the Persian Period at Tel Dor
Monnickendam-Givon: In Search of “Ptolemaic” Dor
Nitschke: A Hellenistic Glass Pendant of a Child Deity (Harpokrates) from Tel Dor
Broers: A Late Bronze Age Gold Bull Head Pendant from Tel Dor
Yasur-Landau / Shalev: The Date of the Tel Dor Well and Its Contribution to the Study of Sea-Level ChangesPart III: Phoenician ConnectionsMaeir: Between Philistia, Phoenicia, and Beyond: A View from Tell es-Safi/Gath
Mazar: On the Relations between Phoenicia and the Beth-Shean Valley in the Iron Age
Katz: Phoenician Presence in the Upper Galilee during Iron Age II
Panitz-Cohen: An Iron Age IIA Phoenician Bichrome Jar from Tel Abel Beth Maacah
Brandl / Yahalom-Mack: A Clay Pendant with an Impression of a Phoenician Seagoing Ship from Tel Abel Beth MaacahPart IV: Iron Age History and ArchaeologyShalvi / Gilboa: The Last Four-Room House in Israel: Stratum 10 at Tel Shiqmona in Context
Bonfil / Zarzecki-Peleg: “The iron which the king, my lord, gave to the smiths for work”: Aspects of Authority and Prestige in the City Plan of Hazor Stratum VIII
Zorn: Standing on Hole-y Ground: The Storage Pits at Tell en-Naṣbeh and the Role of the State
Kletter: Farewell, King Arawna: The Threshing Floor of the Ark (2 Sam. 24)
Garfinkel: The Border of Gezer and the Border of Gath: Elite Control of Land in Ancient Near Eastern Cities
Kranot / Neuman: Epilogue: “When in doubt, open a new locus; when not so in doubt, Twilight-Zone it”: The Educational Legacy of Ilan Sharon—An Associative-Multidisciplinary Archaeologist