TY - JOUR
T1 - Faunal remains from Tel Abel Beth Maacah
T2 - Social change in the late second millennium BCE Hula Valley
AU - Marom, Nimrod
AU - Bechar, Shlomit
AU - Panitz-Cohen, Nava
AU - Mullins, Robert A.
AU - Yahalom-Mack, Naama
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - The Hula Valley, a gateway from Syria and Lebanon to the southern Levant, was dominated in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages by the city-state of Hazor. Following the desolation of the latter in the 13th century BCE, it seems that Abel Beth Maacah became the leading polity in the region, showing a remarkable sequence of Iron Age I architecture. We examine this regional power shift using a zooarchaeological sequence from Abel Beth Maacah, which suggests the economic impact of pastoral nomads on the region during the Middle Bronze Age, and a reversion to traditional, extensive agro-pastoralism in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages.
AB - The Hula Valley, a gateway from Syria and Lebanon to the southern Levant, was dominated in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages by the city-state of Hazor. Following the desolation of the latter in the 13th century BCE, it seems that Abel Beth Maacah became the leading polity in the region, showing a remarkable sequence of Iron Age I architecture. We examine this regional power shift using a zooarchaeological sequence from Abel Beth Maacah, which suggests the economic impact of pastoral nomads on the region during the Middle Bronze Age, and a reversion to traditional, extensive agro-pastoralism in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages.
KW - Bronze Age
KW - Levant
KW - Pastoralism
KW - Zooarchaeology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084827943&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102394
DO - 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102394
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AN - SCOPUS:85084827943
SN - 2352-409X
VL - 32
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
M1 - 102394
ER -