Shattered Maceheads at Early Bronze Age Tel Bet Yerah: Symbolic Power and Destruction, but Whose?

Hai Ashkenazi, Raphael Greenberg

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Abstract

An unusually large number of stone macehead fragments were found in a large open court in the Early Bronze Age site of Tel Bet Yerah, Israel. Maces, which first appear in the Levant in the seventh millennium BCE, are considered the earliest dedicated combat weapons in western Asia; in later periods they take on a symbolic role. We discuss the sequence of events leading to the accumulation of maceheads at Bet Yerah, the people who may have been implicated in it and its possible political significance.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMaterialisierung von Konflikten : Beiträge der Dritten Internationalen LOEWE-Konferenz vom 24. bis 27. September 2018 in Fulda
EditorsSvend Hansen, Rüdiger Krause
Place of PublicationBonn
PublisherVerlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH
Pages85-92
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783774942295
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NameUniversitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie
PublisherVerlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH
Volume346

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