RT Book T1 Israel's ethnogenesis: settlement, interaction, expansion and resistance T2 Approaches to anthropological archaeology A1 Faust, Avi 1967- LA English PP London u.a. PB Equinox Publ. YR 2006 ED 1. publ. UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/481941010 NO Introduction -- Archaeology and ethnicity -- Israelite ethnicity : state of research -- Israelite markers and behavior -- Meat consumption -- Decorated pottery -- Imported pottery -- Pottery forms and repertoire -- The four-room house -- Circumcision and ethnicity -- Hierarchy and equality : the roots of the Israelite egalitarian ethos -- Settlement patterns in the Iron Age I-Iron Age II transition -- Ethnicity and statehood in ancient Israel -- The Philistines in the Iron Age I -- Totemism to ethnicity : the Philistines and Israel's self-identification -- Merenptah's Israel : Israel in the late thirteenth century BCE -- Israel's emergence : the beginnings -- Origins reconsidered -- Pots and peoples revisited : Israelites, Philistines and Canaanites -- Transjordan revisited -- Summary and conclusions -- Postscript NO Includes bibliographical references (p.[236]-277) and indexes CN DS111 SN 1904768989 SN 9781904768982 K1 Bible : Old Testament : Antiquities K1 Excavations (archaeology) : Palestine K1 Jews : History : 1200-953 B.C K1 Ethnology : Palestine K1 Ethnicity : Palestine K1 Jews : Identity : History : To 1500 K1 Anthropology : Palestine K1 Iron Age K1 Palestine : Antiquities