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THE CONSTITUTION OF PHILISTINE IDENTITY: ETHNIC DYNAMICS IN TWELFTH TO TENTH CENTURY PHILISTIA
Author(s) -
FAUST AVRAHAM,
LEVTOV JUSTIN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2010.00357.x
Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , ethnic group , acculturation , assimilation (phonology) , constitution , history , identity (music) , archaeology , ancient history , immigration , ethnology , anthropology , sociology , law , art , political science , philosophy , aesthetics , linguistics , world wide web , computer science , payment
Summary The process and date of the Philistine settlement in Canaan have received a great deal of scholarly attention. As well, scholars have also devoted much attention to the expansion of Philistine interaction with Levantine societies prior to the Philistines' assimilation in the late Iron Age. While most studies view Philistine integration and acculturation as a gradual process, a close examination of the detailed faunal and ceramic evidence suggests otherwise. It appears that due to various processes of boundary maintenance, the Philistines maintained high ethnic boundaries with their neighbours for at least 150–200 years, before (quite suddenly) losing most of their unique traits in the tenth century BC.