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This seventh volume of final reports of the Lahav Research
Project’s efforts at Tell Halif in Southern Israel focuses on the
team’s excavations and related regional ethnographic research at
adjacent Khirbet Khuweilifeh, an early twentieth-century settlement
of Bedouin and Arab fellahin clients. These efforts illustrate the
symbiosis between the itinerant Bedouin and their seasonal
sharecropper neighbors along the northern flanks of the Negev
desert during and following the First World War in southern
Palestine. The stratigraphic excavation and recovery of material
culture from Cave Complex A revealed a pattern of occupation dating
from the late nineteenth century C.E. up to the mid-1940s and
produced hundreds of artifacts and samples, giving testimony to the
lifeways of the fellahin who had inhabited the complex. The
associated ethnographic research with Bedouin sheikhs and
Hebron-area merchant informants established that the Complex’s
most recent occupants were the family of a plow maker named Khalil
al-Kaayke. The studies elucidated in this volume articulate in more
detail the family’s patterns of subsistence, showing the
interdependence of the Bedouin and fellahin partners. Examination
of the pottery remains provides a profile of the site’s Stratum
I, early twentieth-century ceramic forms and also reveals earlier
Islamic-period and pre-Islamic traces. Over the past century the
lifeways of these early twentieth-century Bedouin and their
fellahin village neighbors in southern Palestine have been rapidly
disappearing. This volume serves to chronicle and preserve data on
their waning history and culture.
In 1912, R. A. S. Macalister published reports on his PEF
excavations at Tell Gezer in central Israel, including notice of
having traced more than 1,400 meters (almost a full mile) of
defense walls around the site. Now, a century later, a detailed
reassessment of these fortifications is provided in the publication
of Gezer VII: The Middle Bronze and Later Fortifications in Fields
II, IV, and VIII, edited by Joe D. Seger and James W. Hardin. This
volume features work at Gezer sponsored by Hebrew Union College and
Harvard University between 1968 and 1974, reporting on excavations
at Macalister’s “Southern Gate” (Field IV) and along his
“Inner” and “Outer” wall systems both on the southern
(Field II) and northern (Field VIII) flanks of the site. These
excavations produced much new data, enabling a confident dating of
the Southern Gate complex and the Inner Wall system to the latter
part of the Middle Bronze period (1700–1500 B.C.E.) and of the
Outer Wall to the Late Bronze II and subsequent Hellenistic eras.
Among a rich array of cultural remains, intramural occupation of
the Middle Bronze Age yielded a gold jewelry hoard and early
evidence of alphabetic writing.
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