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Excavations at Tel Michal, Israel (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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Excavations at Tel Michal, Israel (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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Excavations at Tel Michal, Israel was first published in 1989.
Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The archaeological site known today as Tel Michal lies north of Tel
Aviv on Israel's coastal plain, high on a barren windswept cliff
overlooking the Mediterranean. Lacking the arable soil that might
have encouraged permanent settlement - most of the region is
covered with sand dunes - Tel Michael was probably a maritime
station for military or commercial use during its period of
occupation, which extended intermittently from the Canaanite Period
(Middle Bronze Age II, about 2000 B.C.) through the Early Arab
Period (ninth century A.D.). The site's archaeological remains are
not confined to a single ancient tel or mound but are dispersed
over five hills, where, despite severe erosion, seventeen strata
have been excavated, yielding particularly rich and extensive finds
in the Persian period. The excavations at Tel Michal were conducted
over a period of four summers, from 1977 through 1980, by a
consortium that included Tel Aviv University and the University of
Minnesota. As the first phase in a much broader regional project,
Tel Michal drew together a multinational group of scholars and
students in a cooperative, interdisciplinary effort like that
pioneered in Greek archaeology by the Minnesota Messenia
Expedition. Experts in traditional archaeological fields--pottery,
architecture, numismatics--were joined by geologists,
metallurgists, botanists, zoologists, and materials scientists; 43
of these participants have contributed to this full report of the
excavations. The book first traces the historical geography and
settlement patterns of Tel Michal and its environs, then covers the
stratigraphy and architecture of its settlements during the Bronze
and Iron ages and the Persian, Hellenistic, and Arab periods.
Included in this historical section are chapters on pottery and on
special finds like the Iran Age winepresses, the Persian cemetery,
and the Roman fortress. Subsequent chapters deal with the region's
geology and its botanical and skeletal remains; with computerized,
petrographic, and chemical modes of analysis; and with metal and
flint objects, numismatics, and small finds like seals, glass
artifacts, beads and pendants. Illustrated throughout with line
drawings and tables, by photographs of the excavation site and many
of the artifacts found there.
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