Volume
73 no. 1
March 2010
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Egyptians in Jaffa: A Portrait of Egyptian Presence in Jaffa During the Late Bronze Age
by Aaron A. Burke and Krystal V. Lords
Roughly forty-five miles to the northwest of Jerusalem lies one of the most important ports along the southern Levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea: the site of Jaffa (Joppa), now surrounded by Tel Aviv's urban sprawl (fig. 1). Despite considerable excavation during the twentieth century, the excavations remained unpublished, and little was known of the types of finds from the extensive archaeological exploration of Late Bronze Age Jaffa. As a result of recent efforts to analyze and prepare the Bronze and Iron Age remains of Jacob Kaplan's Jaffa excavations for publication, a rich corpus of Egyptian ceramics and other artifacts, many from LB IB contexts, have come to light. This Egyptian ceramic assemblage provides a clearer picture of the character of the earliest Egyptian settlements in Canaan that are associated with the expansion of the New Kingdom empire. While much ink has been spilled on the question of distinguishing Egyptian from Egyptianizing artifacts at Egyptian administrative and military sites in Late Bronze Age Canaan, evidence from Jaffa suggests that such distinctions are not easily made. In this context it is preferable to refer instead to Egyptian artifacts and assemblages, noting simply whether they are imported or locally produced and stressing the importance of the context of the assemblage as defined by both textual and archaeological data.
FORUM
Jordan's Stonehenge: The Endangered Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Site at al-Murayghât–Hajr al-Mansûb
by Stephen H. Savage
Testing the Function of Early Bronze Age I Dolmens: A GIS Investigation
by Abdulla Al-Shorman
FIELDNOTES
The Great Revolt in the Galilee
by Camilla Luckey
The New Acropolis Museum: Where the Visual Feast Trumps Education
by Katie Rask
REVIEWS
Ancient Jordan from the Air, by David Kennedy and Robert Bewley
(Benjamin W. Porter)
The Persian Empire, by Lindsay Allen
(S. Rebecca Martin)
Studying the Ancient Israelites: A Guide to Sources and Methods, by Victor H. Matthews
(Diana Edelman)