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Introduction |
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Uncharted Areas and Blind Spots in the Archaeology of the Philistines |
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2 | (5) |
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The Aim of the Present Study |
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7 | (2) |
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1 The Archaeological Identification of Migration and Other Ranges of Interregional Interactions |
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9 | (25) |
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Establishing the Course of Inquiry |
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9 | (1) |
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Describing Interactions and the Parameters of Interaction |
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10 | (3) |
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13 | (1) |
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The Archaeological Identification of Migration, When Treated As a Range of Interregional Interactions |
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14 | (1) |
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Migration and Deep Change in Domestic Assemblages |
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15 | (2) |
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Deep Change and Innovation Processes |
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17 | (2) |
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Demonstrating Deep Change: Case Studies for the Influence of Migration on Behavioral Patterns and Material Culture |
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19 | (11) |
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30 | (2) |
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32 | (2) |
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2 Setting the Scene: The Mycenaean Palatial Culture and the Outside World |
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34 | (24) |
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Social Complexity in the Mycenaean Palatial System |
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35 | (3) |
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Aegean Peoples and Mediterranean Geography |
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38 | (6) |
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Thirteenth-Century Aegean Maritime Capabilities and Interregional Interactions |
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44 | (10) |
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Palatial Administration and Aegean Migration and Colonization of the Late Thirteenth to the Early Twelfth Century BCE |
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54 | (4) |
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3 The Twelfth-Century-BCE Aegean: Political and Social Background |
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58 | (39) |
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Changing Rulership and the Decapitation Theory |
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58 | (2) |
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Social Complexity in Selected Aegean Sites in LHIIIC |
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60 | (21) |
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Regional Aspects of Rulership in the Twelfth Century |
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81 | (2) |
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The Change in Imagery and Ideology between LHIIIB and LHIIIC |
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83 | (12) |
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95 | (2) |
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4 Preconditions for Migration |
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97 | (25) |
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Push and Pull Factors Affecting Migration |
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97 | (5) |
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Twelfth-Century-BCE Sources of Information |
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (12) |
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114 | (6) |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (72) |
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Investigating Routes and New Populations |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (14) |
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Cyprus: Interactions along the Sea Route |
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138 | (16) |
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Western Anatolia: The Expansion of the East Aegean Koine |
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154 | (4) |
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Cilicia and the Amuq: The Land Route from Southeastern Anatolia to Syria |
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158 | (6) |
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The Syro-Phoenician Coast: Along the Sea and Land Routes |
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164 | (7) |
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Through the Egyptian Lens |
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171 | (9) |
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The Origin of the Attackers |
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180 | (6) |
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Conclusions: Twelfth-Century Interactions along the Routes |
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186 | (8) |
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6 Strictly Business? the Southern Levant and the Aegean in the Thirteenth to the Early Twelfth Century Bce |
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194 | (22) |
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Mycenaean Imports to the Southern Levant |
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194 | (10) |
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Merchants and Mercenaries: Foreigners in Late Bronze Age Canaan |
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204 | (10) |
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Conclusions: Strictly Business? |
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214 | (2) |
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7 The Material Culture Change in Twelfth-Century Philistia |
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216 | (66) |
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216 | (4) |
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The End of the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in the Philistine Sites |
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220 | (7) |
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Behavioral Patterns As Indicators of Interaction with Aegean Population in the Southern Levant |
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227 | (7) |
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Cooking Installations: Hearths, Ovens, and Tabuns |
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234 | (4) |
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Form, Function, and Variability in Cooking Traditions |
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238 | (2) |
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Assessing the Degree of Change |
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240 | (1) |
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Patterns of Use of the Pottery Assemblage: Storing and Serving Food and Drink in Aegean and Local Styles |
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241 | (2) |
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LHIIIC-Style Pottery: Local Production of Traded Pottery or a Domestic Assemblage? |
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243 | (12) |
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Serving and Storage Vessels in the Local, Canaanite Tradition |
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255 | (7) |
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Cypriot (and Egyptian?) Shapes |
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262 | (1) |
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The Nature of the Aegean-Style and Canaanite Ceramic Repertoires in Philistia |
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262 | (2) |
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Pottery Production and Technology |
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264 | (3) |
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267 | (3) |
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The Organization of Domestic Space |
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270 | (9) |
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Conclusions: Philistine House, Philistine Migrants |
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279 | (3) |
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8 The Philistine Society and the Settlement Process |
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282 | (53) |
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Settlement Patterns in Philistia |
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282 | (13) |
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295 | (5) |
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300 | (2) |
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Ceremonial and Cultic Activity |
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302 | (5) |
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307 | (1) |
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Literacy and Administration |
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308 | (5) |
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The Role of Women in the Aegean Migration |
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313 | (2) |
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Social Stratification in Twelfth-Century Philistia |
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315 | (1) |
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Chronology and the Paradigm of Unified Migration |
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315 | (10) |
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The Origin of the Migrants |
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325 | (5) |
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330 | (5) |
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9 A Short History of the Aegean Immigration to the Levant |
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335 | (12) |
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A Land Much Divided: The World that Created the Aegean Migration |
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335 | (1) |
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A Family Portrait with an Ox Wagon: On the Routes to the East |
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336 | (2) |
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338 | (2) |
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340 | (2) |
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Aegean Life Abroad: The Making of Philistia |
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342 | (5) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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