@article{d8b61906602941f8b2b5d1c22d50c9d1,
title = "Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel",
abstract = "Faunal remains from Ḥorvat Tevet, a site located in the rural hinterlands of the Jezreel Valley, reveal patterns of a complex redistributive apparatus during the Late Iron IIA. This paper assesses a large assemblage of animal bones within inter- and intra-site comparative analyses. Inter-site comparisons to contemporary sites in the northern valleys of Israel demonstrate that the agricultural production of grain and animal by-products at Ḥorvat Tevet is unprecedented and went far beyond the site{\textquoteright}s local needs. Further, an intra-site comparison reveals a hierarchical distinction in the consumption patterns between elites and the labour force. These results further reinforce the conclusion that the late Iron IIA Ḥorvat Tevet was an administrative centre of a royal Israelite estate in the Jezreel Valley.",
keywords = "Agricultural Labour, Animal Economy, Consumer-Producers, Iron Age II, Jezreel Valley, Monarchic Israel, Social Hierarchy, Zooarchaeology",
author = "Abra Spiciarich and Omer Sergi and Karen Covello-Paran and Yoav Tsur and Hannes Bezzel and Lidar Sapir-Hen",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Palestine Exploration Fund 2023.",
year = "2023",
month = mar,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1080/00310328.2023.2184088",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "156",
pages = "241--261",
journal = "Palestine Exploration Quarterly",
issn = "0031-0328",
publisher = "Maney Publishing",
number = "3",
}