Lahav VII: Ethnoarchaeology in the Tell Halif Environs: Excavations in Site 1, Complex A, 1976–1979

Joe D. Seger; Karen Seger

Published by Penn State University Press 2018

Lahav VII: Ethnoarchaeology in the Tell Halif Environs

Excavations in Site 1, Complex A, 1976–1979

Joe D. Seger and Karen Seger

In the series Lahav: Reports of the Lahav Research Project / Excavations at Tell Halif, Israel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646020447

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This seventh volume of final reports of the Lahav Research Project’s efforts at Tell Halif in Southern Israel focuses on the team’s excavations and related regional ethnographic research at adjacent Khirbet Khuweilifeh, an early twentieth-century settlement of Bedouin and Arab fellahin clients. These efforts illustrate the symbiosis between the itinerant Bedouin and their seasonal sharecropper neighbors along the northern flanks of the Negev desert during and following the First World War in southern Palestine.

The stratigraphic excavation and recovery of material culture from Cave Complex A revealed a pattern of occupation dating from the late nineteenth century C.E. up to the mid-1940s and produced hundreds of artifacts and samples, giving testimony to the lifeways of the fellahin who had inhabited the complex. The associated ethnographic research with Bedouin sheikhs and Hebron-area merchant informants established that the Complex’s most recent occupants were the family of a plow maker named Khalil al-Kaayke. The studies elucidated in this volume articulate in more detail the family’s patterns of subsistence, showing the interdependence of the Bedouin and fellahin partners. Examination of the pottery remains provides a profile of the site’s Stratum I, early twentieth-century ceramic forms and also reveals earlier Islamic-period and pre-Islamic traces.

Over the past century the lifeways of these early twentieth-century Bedouin and their fellahin village neighbors in southern Palestine have been rapidly disappearing. This volume serves to chronicle and preserve data on their waning history and culture.

Author / Editor information

Seger Joe D. :

Joe D. Seger is Director Emeritus of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University.Seger Karen :

Karen E. Seger was an archaeologist of the Middle East and the author of Portrait of a Palestinian Village.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Brief Biography of Karen E. Seger Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Photographs Publicly Available Download PDF	x
List of Tables and Charts Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Author’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Chapter 1 General Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 A 20th-Century Arab Settlement at Khirbet Khuweilifeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 3 Excavations at Site 1, Complex A Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 4 Material Culture from Cave Complex A at Khirbet Khuweilifeh William H. Adams and Joe D. Seger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 5 The Zooarchaeological Remains from Cave Complex A Susan Arter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 6 The Pottery from Cave Complex A at Khirbet Khuweilifeh Joe D. Seger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
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Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 174
- Images: 174
- Other: 174 illustrations
Keywords: Bedouin; Fellahin; Lahav; Tell Halif; Ethno-archaeology; Cave dwellers (modern); Sharecroppers; Lahav Research Project

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Published: April 23, 2020
ISBN: 9781646020447