Ethnic Complexity in Northern Israel During Iron Age II

Avraham Faust

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Much discussion has focused on the ability archaeology (and archaeologists) to identify ethnic groups on the basis of material culture. According to Colin Renfrew the most problematic of all the concepts which we have tended to use is that of a people (1993, 20). Much of the discussion of this subject in Syro-Palestinian archaeology has concentrated around the identification of the Israelites' (for example, Congress 1992, 5-17; Dever 1993, 1995a; Finkelstein 1995, 1996a, 1997; Kempinski 1995; Bunimovitz and Yasur-Landau 1996; Herzog 1997; Kletter 1995). Most of the discussion has focused on Iron Age I (the Settlement period), in an attempt to identify the similarities and differences between the various ethnic groups which existed in Palestine at this time (for the various groups see Mazar 1981; Aharoni 1979). The present article will discuss the ethnicity of the inhabitants of Northern Israel during Iron Age II. The departure point of this article is the rural sector, which has not received much attention from Tell-minded' archaeological research (Ahlstrom 1982a, 24-25), but, for reasons given below, seems to hold the key to the attempt to identify ethnic groups in ancient Israel (see also London 1989, 52).

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