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Notes on video lecture:
Bronze Age vs. Iron Age Material Culture
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on July 14, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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Iron, 13th, Egyptians, central, egalitarian, burial, Highlands, poorer, Jordan, tombs, ugly, Canaan, complex, class, reshape, Judah, conquered, various, elaborately, imported, air, architecture, agricultural, demarcate, material
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the end of the Last Bronze Age and the beginning of the          Age
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marks major shift in material culture of                hill country
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beginning in          century
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both sides of the              River
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a significant rise in the number of small,                          settlements
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people who occupied these settlements originated from                places
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their                  culture differed greatly from the Last Bronze Age
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differed from the urban centers in the low lands and coastal plains
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ceramic pottery shards
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late Bronze Age
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often very                        decorated
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decorations on pottery can mark            divisions
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1300 century forward
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is unembellished, plain, even         
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utilitarian and functional
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Iron Age I (1200-1000)
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Israel begins to merge into the population in the                   
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simplicity of pottery could be due to the poor economic conditions
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but as they become more populated and more                through Iron Age II
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Iron Age II (1000-586)
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the period of the Israeli states and           
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continues to be the same simple pottery as in Iron Age I
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the same can be said for                  wares
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this is in contrast to the Hill Country of the Last Bronze Age and also coast areas in the Iron Age
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this can be said for the variety of ceramics as well
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change in pottery corresponds to other features
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simple                         
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simple              customs
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open-       sacred places rather than temples
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scholars
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William Foxwell Albright
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George Mendenhall
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Norman Gottwald
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Avraham Faust
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claim that this represents an                        ethos
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late Bronze Age: Canaan ruled as Egyptian imperial province
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the Egyptian court appointed governors and it was their job to make sure that              served the Egyptian empire
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led to a stratified society
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officers, lower and higher classes
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was the most international area at this time in history
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much imported pottery
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diverse forms of           
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prestige goods
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- something we use to                    ourselves as having wealth and not having wealth
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Iron Age: withdrawal of                   
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a              period
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yet a people came together
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created society
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                   other lands
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if it had not been for the success of this society in the hill country during this time
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there would have been little for the authors of the Bible to collect and                after the empires of the East destroyed their society
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