Old spaces, new places: legacy data and the spatial organization of Early Bronze III houses in the non-elite domestic quarter of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel.

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dc.contributor.authorRichardson, Sarah J.
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeFowler, Kent (Anthropology)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeWalker, David (Environment and Geography)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeRowan, Yorke (University of Chicago)
dc.contributor.supervisorGreenfield, Haskel J.
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-11T15:57:02Z
dc.date.available2024-04-11T15:57:02Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-28
dc.date.submitted2024-04-04T17:35:37Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineAnthropology
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
dc.description.abstractThe goal of this thesis is to contribute to a more dynamic and holistic vision of the social complexities of early urban societies in the Near East by increasing the knowledge of intra-settlement household organization and variability. This thesis approaches the household from a materials perspective, using three specialist datasets to identify the boundaries of households and their continuity between phases. To conduct the analyses proposed for this thesis, a geographic information system (GIS) that integrates all of the excavation data from over a decade of field excavation was necessary to construct. This GIS spatial database enables data to be both stored and analyzed. The digitization of the site data and their integration are also vital in the examination of legacy data as is used in this thesis. The term ‘legacy data’ refers to any data that are from an obsolete information system. In the field of archaeology, this often translates to non-digital. The digitization and analysis of such data are theoretically possible for any site and allows for reexamination of the site after years of being archived. The process provides for the creation of an electronic database (where one may not have previously existed) that allows for renewed data access and addresses storage concerns. This thesis makes a substantive contribution to the understanding of early urban society in the southern Levant by approaching the dearth of research on Early Bronze Age households from a spatial analytic perspective. Data from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath (Israel) are used to generate models of the spatial dynamics of households in this early urban center. A clearer understanding of generational continuity of habitation of architectural units, architectural units as a representation of households, use of space within architectural units, and household (domestic) level tasks provides information that is not accessible from top-down approaches. The use of legacy data in the analysis tests the feasibility of these types of analyses on data collected before digitization was widespread. This thesis tests whether the digitization process and subsequent analysis of legacy data are valuable and return meaningful results.
dc.description.noteMay 2024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/38162
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectHousehold archaeology
dc.subjectHousehold
dc.subjectSouthern Levant
dc.titleOld spaces, new places: legacy data and the spatial organization of Early Bronze III houses in the non-elite domestic quarter of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel.
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobano
oaire.awardNumber895-20111005
oaire.awardTitleNature of early urban neighbourhoods in the Southern Levant: early Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi
project.funder.identifierSSHRC: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000155
project.funder.nameSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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