Site details

Tell Ashdod

PK	C6205
TITLE	Tell Ashdod
WGS84	31.757901° N, 34.658977° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	31.757901, 34.658977
LON/LAT	34.658977, 31.757901

DMS

31° 45' 28.4436" N

34° 39' 32.3172" E

W3W	fitter, dashes, dandelions
UTM	36 R, 657119, 3514799
EGSA87	1511893, 3563212

Elevation m	48
Elevation feet	157.5
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Dothan and Zukerman [2004], 4    'The bulk of the Mycenaean IIIC:1 pottery at Ashdod comes from Areas G and H, ... '
2.    Settlement.   Feldman et al. [2019],     Feldman et al. [2019] treat Ashkelon, Ashdod, and Ekron (Tell Miqne) together. 'The early Iron Age population was distinct in its high genetic affinity to European-derived populations and in the high variation of that affinity, suggesting that a gene flow from a European-related gene pool entered Ashkelon either at the end of the Bronze Age or at the beginning of the Iron Age.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Feldman et al. [2019]: , ' ... at the end of the Bronze Age or at the beginning of the Iron Age.'

2. LH IIIC1: (1190 BC - 1130 BC)
    a.    Dothan and Zukerman [2004]: 4, ' ... the Mycenaean IIIC:1 pottery at Ashdod ... '

NOTES

1. For a popular (and more accessible) treatment of the DNA results see Megan Gannon, 'Ancient DNA sheds new light on the biblical Philistines' in Smithsonian.com here.

2. The article by Feldman et al. [2019] suggests that enough people from the ' ... southern European gene pool ... ' lived in Ashdod so as to temporarily skew the genetic affinity of the local population. I suggest that that qualifies Ashdod, for part of this time, to be described as, at least in part, a Mycenaean community.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Dothan and Zukerman [2004]: Dothan, Trude and Alexander Zukerman. ‘A Preliminary Study of the Mycenaean IIIC:1 Pottery Assemblages from Tel Miqne-Ekron and Ashdod’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (333) 1 - 54. 2004., 'Ashdod', pg. 4. Online here.

2. Feldman et al. [2019]: Feldman, Michal with Daniel M. Master, Raffaela A. Bianco, Marta Burri, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Alissa Mittnik, Adam J.. Aja, Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause. ‘Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines’, Science Advances (5:7) July 03, 2019., 'Introduction', Online here.