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Feasting at Marj Rabba, An Early Chalcolithic Site in the Galilee
Author(s) -
Hill Austin “CHAD”,
Price Max D.,
Rowan Yorke M.
Publication year - 2016
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/ojoa.12081
Subject(s) - chalcolithic , archaeology , zooarchaeology , southern levant , geography , period (music) , bronze age , consumption (sociology) , ancient history , history , bioarchaeology , art , aesthetics
Summary Feasting is a common part of human culture in the present and past that can serve a variety of roles such as creating and maintaining social identities within and between social groups. In zooarchaeology, feasting evidence, rather than the accumulated and mixed refuse from long‐term consumption, often gives us some of the only data from individual events at a site. A cattle bone refuse pit at the site of Marj Rabba, Israel, provides evidence for feasting from the early Chalcolithic (c.4500–3600 BC) in the southern Levant. The presence of cattle feasts at Marj Rabba provides a glimpse of cultural practices in this critical transitional period that may mirror practices from earlier periods.