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- Discard Studies, Waste Management, Garbage, Rubbish
- by Sarah Newman
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- Ethnohistory, Archaeology, Latin American and Caribbean History, Maya Archaeology
- by Ruth Jackson-Tal
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- Glass, Islamic Studies, Early Islamic Archaeology, Ancient Glass

This interdisciplinary book brings together scholars who demonstrate the potential of research into waste for understanding humans, non-humans and their inter-relations. In 12 chapters the authors cover topics ranging from the relationship between waste and identity in early agricultural settlements to the perception of contemporary nuclear waste. Although archaeological approaches dominate the contributions, there are also chapters that represent the results of anthropological and historical research. The book is structured into three main sections that explore the relationship between waste and three domains of interest: value, social differentiation, and space. Archaeologies of Waste will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and other readers intrigued by the potential of things, which were left behind, to shed light on social life.

- by Daniel Sosna and +1
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- Anthropology of Waste, Garbage, Anthropology of Garbage in Cities, Archaeology of Refuse

During the 2017 excavation season at Tel Kabri, Iron Age remains
were found cutting into the western part of the Middle Bronze
Age palace. These remains consisted of a segment of a large
structure and a series of sizable pits. Similar Iron Age remains
were unearthed during previous soundings in Areas D and F of
the excavation and were loosely dated to the Iron Age II. The
ceramic assemblage from these soundings demonstrated a
disproportionate number of imports and cooking pots, which
prompted the excavators to suggest that the lower settlement
was engaged in the processing of agricultural products connected
to the nearby forts located elsewhere on the tell. A recent reexamination of the pottery from the previous excavations suggest
that the forts could have only existed during the Iron Age IIA and
IIC. Our examination of the pottery indicates that the imports can
be dated to the Iron Age IIA, while the large number of cooking
pots should mostly be dated to the Iron Age IIC. We would
therefore like to suggest a new interpretation for the function of
the lower settlement at Kabri during the Iron Age II in relation to
the forts and the political reality in the Galilee at that time.

- by Meir Edrey and +2
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- Rural, Caravanserais, Pits (Archaeology), Archaeology of Refuse

This article summarizes an early collections project undertaken shortly after I came to BU in 1980; Conrad M. Goodwin catalogued a "grab" sample collected by former Mass. state geologist Clifford Kaye. Tammy and I tried to make some sense of the collection. George Miller has told me we fell down on identifying transfer-print patterns; should have consulted him! What I had of the Kaye Collection was transferred to the Boston City Archaeology Program's lab & storage facility & is available for study there.

- by Mary Beaudry
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- Historical Archaeology, Collections Management, Urban archaeology, History of Boston

ABSTRACT: The recent excavations of a section of the first-century CE garbage dump found on the eastern slope of the Lower City of Jerusalem (the City of David/Silwan) have provided an opportunity to conduct the first quantitative analysis of the relative frequencies of the various functional groups and types within a complete assemblage of chalk vessels. As our assemblage derives entirely from random garbage deposited in the Jerusalem city dump, these data may be presumed representative of the quantitative breakdown of vessel types used by Jerusalem’s population during the last decades of the Second Temple period. Our study also investigates the ratio of chalk vessels to pottery at our site, an issue of particular interest in light of the manner that contemporary Jewish ritual law related to utensils made of these two kinds of materials.

- by Yonatan Adler and +1
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- Ancient History, Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Jewish Law
- by Dietmar Schmidt
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- Cultural Studies, Archaeology, Material Culture Studies, Archaeology of Refuse