Foreign Food Plants as Prestigious Gifts: The Archaeobotany of the Amarna Age Palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel

In contrast with the relatively rich documentation from the el-Amarna archive related to the main city-states of the southern Levant in the Amarna Age (Late Bronze Age IIA; 14th century b.c.e.), archaeological data from these sites is still wanting. This unfortunate situation highlights the importan...

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Published in:Bulletin of ASOR
Authors: Weiss, Ehud (Author) ; Bubel, Shawn (Author) ; Bunimovitz, Shlomo (Author) ; Lederman, Zvi (Author) ; Mahler-Slasky, Yael (Author) ; Manor, Dale (Author) ; Melamed, Yoel (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: The University of Chicago Press [2019]
In: Bulletin of ASOR
Further subjects:B palace
B eastern Mediterranean archaeology
B royal gift exchange
B Tel Beth-Shemesh
B crop plants
B Plant remains (Archaeology)
B Late Bronze Age
B CARBONIZATION
B Amarna Age
B Storage
B ISRAELI antiquities
B archaeobotany (palaeoethnobotany)
B EDIBLE plants
B ARCHAEOLOGICAL databases
B Southern Levant
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