JUS 372A Lecture 5: The United Monarchy
9 Nov 2016
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There are a lot of animal bone remains because they were used quite often. Would normally look at them in economic terms, but not ethnic terms. Zooarchaeology is the study of human uses of animals in archaeological context. Torah specifies which animals were clean for consumption. Hesse and wapnish claimed that they could distinguish between israelite sites and philistine sites based on the presence of pigs. No other regions at the time removed pork from diet. Archaeologists counted by questioning when this specific tradition became implemented in culture. Are found in leviticus, which appears to date rather late. Book of kings or earlier prophets do not rail on israelites for eating pork. Pigs were only useful as food, did not provide wool or other materials. Ecology: philistines lived on coastal plain where it was much wetter and more humid. Better suited to pork production than central highlands where israelites lived.
