Fragments of decorated pottery vessels imported from Cyprus and Greece 3,400 years ago. Photo credit: Guy Fitoussi, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. [There's a 3,400 Year Old Canaanite Citadel in my Basement]
Posted on 01/08/2016 3:20:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A 3,400-year-old Canaanite fort discovered in the heart of the modern Israeli city of Nahariya will be incorporated into a residential high-rise to be built at the spot. The Bronze Age citadel apparently served as an administrative center serving Mediterranean mariners... It had been destroyed at least four times by fire and was rebuilt each time... Among the artifacts discovered in the ruined citadel's rooms are ceramic figurines with human and animal forms, bronze weapons, and pottery vessels that hadn't been made locally -- they had been imported. That is further testimony to the extensive trading relations among the peoples around the Mediterranean Sea basin.
Among the burnt layers, the excavators found abundant remains of cereals, legumes and grape seeds, the IAA said. Whether the grape seeds prove that wine had been made in the area remains an open question, though analysis of clay vessels dating to 4,000 years ago, from the cellar of a Canaanite palace nearby, found remains of red wine, and a fine, aromatic vintage fit for a king at that. There was probably a dock alongside the citadel, postulate Nimrod Getzov, Yair Amitzur and Dr. Ron Be'eri, directors of the dig...
Many things about the Canaanites have remained mysterious. There is little evidence to enlighten archaeologists as to who exactly the Canaanites were, and what system of rulership they had. There have been no significant findings of alphabetic writing from the region during the Middle Bronze Age, though neighboring Egypt and Mesopotamia had advanced civilizations with highly advanced writing systems. We do know however that the Canaanites liked their wine, as evinced by the discovery in that palace of an enormous collection of wine jars and grape seeds.
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Fragments of decorated pottery vessels imported from Cyprus and Greece 3,400 years ago. Photo credit: Guy Fitoussi, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. [There's a 3,400 Year Old Canaanite Citadel in my Basement]
Every new Israeli high rise should incorporate a fort.
And a bomb shelter, and an arms room. Better safe than sorry.
Now we know why the Canaanite civilization fell.....free trade.
Another one of *those* topics.
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It had been destroyed at least four times by fire caused by 4 separate Suicide Chariot Bombs
But the fifth one stayed up!!
;’)
She’s got large tracks O’land!
The Philistines -- often nowadays their equated with Canaanites, despite the fact that the only existence either of them has is in the OT -- seem to have changed, culturally, linguisitically, and probably ethnically, over a period of centuries (who doesn't?), with olive oil presses and Greek pottery styles later on, at least one non-Semitic king name (all 7th c BC).(there's a later edition of the work, although I'm not sure it's still in print, the publisher was acquired)Giving Goliath His Due:The name Goliath, like Achish, is not Semitic, but rather Anatolian (McCarter 1980, 291, Mitchell 1967, 415; Wainwright 1959, 79). Not all agree though; the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (2:524) proposes that Goliath may have been a remnant of one of the aboriginal groups of giants of Palestine who now were in the employ of the Philistines. [1. Naveh (1985, 9, 13 n. 14) states that Ikausu, the name of the king of Ekron in the seventh century b.c., is a non-Semitic name that can be associated with that of the Achish of Gath in David's time. The name in the seventh century has a shin ending that is non-West Semitic.]
New Archaeological Light on the Philistines
by Neal Bierling
foreword by Paul L. Maier
online version
Geez, “their” s/b “they’re”. Wow.
Shhhhh! The so-called Palestinians will claim the building as being built by their ancestors and move in.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/470392.Neal_Bierling
http://www.ratemyteachers.com/neil-bierling/427852-t
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http://nealbierling.blogspot.com/2014/09/neal-bierling-archaeological-adventures_64.html
I wonder if it will have a Ba’alcony?
;’)
My understanding is that the Philistines were one of the “Sea Peoples” who were migrating, raiding and invading around the turbulent period around 1,200 BC, when there were widespread collapses of many old civilizations around the Mediterranean and Mid East (the Late Bronze Age Collapse). They settled around current day Gaza around the time of the collapse.
Canaanites were local people in the Levant (current Israel and Lebanon) before the collapse (who many centuries later developed into the sea-faring Phoenician civilization). Canaan was also the place name, so different peoples at different times could be described as from there (as Canaanites).
The Dark Age Of Greece by Immanuel Velikovsky
Applying The Revised Chronology by Edwin M. Schorr
There were no Sea Peoples as such — they were the Greeks, and the conventional pseudochronology is wrong by hundreds of years.
If the Canaanites, Philistines, or one of the empires (Elamite, Akkadian/Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine, among other pre-Islamic powers) were still around, the Palis would be claiming they had no historical presence in the area.
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