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Jennie Ebeling, University of Evansville[/vc_column_text][mk_divider][vc_single_image image=”100225″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][mk_padding_divider][vc_wp_text]In recent decades, many archaeologists who research Bronze and Iron Age sites in the southern Levant have shifted their focus from investigating historical questions to asking more anthropological ones. Household archaeology approaches can be applied not only to ongoing excavation projects, but also to legacy collections, as has been demonstrated by studies that have utilized the rich artifact assemblages from Iron Age Tell en-Nasbeh (biblical Mizpah). William Frederic Bad猫 of the Pacific School of Religion (PSR) in Berkeley, CA directed excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh, Palestine for five seasons between 1926 and 1935 on behalf of PSR and 麻豆直播 and brought some of the excavated artifacts to Berkeley through partage in the 1930s. While many of the artifacts in the collection have been published or made available through Open Context, some 150 ground stone artifacts in the Bad猫 Museum of Biblical Archaeology at PSR have never been assessed by a stone artifact specialist and published. In summer 2024, I was awarded an 麻豆直播 Collections Fellowship to study the mortars, stone vessels, handstones, pestles, grinders, scrapers, weights, sling stones, and other stone artifacts in the collection to learn how this these artifacts can contribute to our understanding of daily life activities at Tell en-Nasbeh in the first half of the first millennium BCE.[/vc_wp_text][vc_single_image image=”100221″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][mk_padding_divider][vc_wp_text]During a ten-day research period in June 2024, I examined all of the ground stone artifacts kept in the Bad猫 Museum storeroom. In addition to assessing, measuring, sketching,and photographing each object, I searched the publications, photographs, and original field ledgers and artifact cards for all available documentation of them. While the collection primarily comprises small, complete objects 鈥搈ost of them handheld processors made of limestone, flint, and other materials available locally 鈥搒everal fragments of large and more specialized objects are among the assemblage along with artifacts made of basalt that were probably brought from Galilee or farther north. Particularly interesting is a small collection of tools made of scoria, a highly vesicular volcanic rock. While similar artifacts are known from other Iron Age sites in the region, their functions are not completely understood. One object was described as a 鈥渇oot scraper鈥� in McCown鈥檚 Tell en-Nasbeh I apparently on the basis of ethnographic information: they 鈥渁re supposed to have been used to rub the thick and sometimes painful callouses from the soles of the peasant鈥檚 feet鈥� (1947: 250). Other artifacts were likely used in food processing and other activities. Ongoing research of this material will offer more insights into the function of household spaces at Tell en-Nasbeh during the Iron Age. I would like to thank Aaron Brody, Director of the Bad猫 Museum of Biblical Archaeology, for his help and encouragement and 麻豆直播 for making this research possible.[/vc_wp_text][vc_single_image image=”100223″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][mk_divider][vc_wp_text]