Ceramic Platters at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath: An Integrated Chaîne Opératoire Approach

JON ROSS completed an MA in archaeology at Sheffield University (2012) and a PhD in anthropology at the University of Manitoba (2021), with a focus on ceramic style and technology in the Bronze Age southern Levant. Recent publications concentrate on shaping techniques and fingerprints (paleodermatoglyphics). His research centers on the nature of production and how this informs our understanding of economic and social life in Bronze and Iron Age societies of the Levant. He is a sessional instructor with experience as a senior staff member on excavations across Israel and Canada (St. Paul’s College, 70 Dysart Road, Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Laboratory, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M6, Canada; [email protected])

SHIRA ALBAZ (PhD 2019, Bar-Ilan University) is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, Haifa University. She is the lab manager of the Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath Archaeological Project at Bar-Ilan University and supervised the Area E excavations (2013–2017). From 2023, she has lectured on the archaeology of Jerusalem in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Bar-Ilan University. Her interests focus on Early Bronze Age material culture, architecture, and societies in the southern Levant. She also deals with material culture from the Bronze and Iron Ages as part of additional research projects (Building 410, The Institute of Archaeology, The Martin [Szusz] Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel; [email protected])

HASKEL J. GREENFIELD, BA, MA (Hunter College-CUNY 1975, 1980), MPhil., PhD (CUNY-Grad Center, 1980, 1985). Distinguished professor of anthropology, co-director of the Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Lab, and coordinator of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He is an anthropological archaeologist with a specialty in zooarchaeology. His research focuses on the evolution of early agricultural and early complex societies in the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Geographically, his research covers a large swath of the Old World from Europe through the Near East and into Africa (Department of Anthropology, St. Paul’s College, 70 Dysart Road, Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Laboratory, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M6, Canada; [email protected])

AREN M. MAEIR studied archaeology and Jewish history at the Hebrew University and completed his PhD in archaeology (1997). From 1991 he has taught archaeology at Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel), at the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology. He is head of the Institute of Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, directs the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project (gath.wordpress.com), directs the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (aramisrael.org) and the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies (Bar-Ilan University), co-edits the Israel Exploration Journal, and is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (Building 410, The Institute of Archaeology, The Martin [Szusz] Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel; [email protected])