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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154970503321

Autore

Toombs Lawrence E

Titolo

Tell el-Hesi : modern military trenching and Muslim cemetery in field I, strata I-II / / by Lawrence E. Toombs ; edited by Kevin G. O'Connell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1985

ISBN

9786613811219

9781554588046

1554588049

9781282233478

1282233475

9780889205802

0889205809

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

O'ConnellKevin G

Disciplina

956.94/9

Soggetti

Islamic antiquities - Israel

Tombs - Israel

Intrenchments

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 - Trench warfare

Ḥasi Site (Israel)

Israel Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Five folded leaves in pocket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography: p. 155-156.

Nota di contenuto

v. 1. The Tell el-Hesi field manual / by Jeffrey A. Blakely and Lawrence E. Toombs ; edited by Kevin G. O'Connell.--v. 2. Tell el Hesi, modern military trenching and Muslim cemetery in field I, strata I-II / by Lawrence E. Toombs.

Sommario/riassunto

Tell el-Hesi, located in southern Israel at the juncture of the Negev Desert and the foothills of the Judean Mountains, provides an excellent opportunity for the archaeological study of the impact of a variety of physical environments on the peoples who inhabited a single site. The site has been occupied at various times from the Early Bronze Age through to the military trenching of 1948. Level one revealed the modern military trenching. Level two contained a Muslim cemetery that



the author has dated to the period 1600—1800 A.D. This work analyzes the military trenching and provides the first statistical analysis of an entire cemetery in this geographic region. Using a computer code to analyze numerous attribute describing the burial cysts, skeletal data, and grave goods, the author has developed a typology of burials and drawn conclusions about the community which they represent. More than eighty photographs of individual burials and burial goods in addition to tables, plans, and section drawings illustrate the text. The methodology employed in this work makes it a valuable source of information for archaeologists investigating burials in any cultural context. The broader audience of anthropologists interested in burial customs will also find the book useful.