The OCHRE database system is an Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment that enables scholars to record, integrate, analyze, publish, and preserve their data. It provides a comprehensive framework for diverse kinds of information at all stages of research, from initial data acquisition through analysis, publication, and long-term archiving and curation of the data. Although OCHRE was originally designed to meet the needs of cultural and historical research, it can be used equally well in other academic disciplines. Its highly generic and flexible structure accommodates any observations and conceptual distinctions scholars might make in the course of their research, allowing them to retain their own terminology while integrating their information with information that has been recorded using different taxonomies.

OCHRE: an Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment

Schloen, J. David

Eisenbrauns

The first two volumes on patrimonialism in Ugarit and the ancient Near East, this book opens with a lengthy introduction on the interpretation of social action and households in the ancient world.

The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, 2)

History

Africa

Brill Academic Pub

Since 1985, the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, directed by Lawrence E. Stager of Harvard University, has been a leading American archaeological project in Israel. Now, the work of the project is being collected in ten final report volumes published by the Harvard Semitic Museum. The first volume, Introduction and Overview (1985–2006), spans more than 700 copiously illustrated pages, many in full color, and includes subjects ranging from microscopic DNA to monumental architecture. In addition, Volume 1 includes plans and descriptions of every architectural phase excavated during the course of seventeen field seasons and reveals the archaeological sequence of the site and aspects of the city plan from the Bronze Age to Crusader times, with special emphasis on Canaanite (Bronze Age) and Philistine (Iron Age) Ashkelon. The chapters in this volume, by more than three dozen contributors, combine to describe Ashkelon’s cultural constants and contingencies over la longue durée (3000 BCE to 1500 CE). As a result, Ashkelon 1: Introduction and Overview (1985–2006) will be an indispensable resource for investigating the maritime and terrestrial history of the southeastern Mediterranean littoral.

Ashkelon 1: Introduction and Overview (1985–2006) (Final Reports of The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon)

Master, Daniel M.

Stager, Lawrence E.

Ancient Civilizations

The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon continues its final report series with a study of the fortifications of the North Slope. 
From the first gate and rampart in the Middle Bronze Age through mud-brick towers from the Iron Age, these defenses are evidence of how the seaport of Ashkelon was both a political force in the southern Levant and an economic power in the eastern Mediterranean. This volume includes the monumental mud-brick gate of Ashkelon, the shrine of the silver calf, and towers from the time of the Philistines. Since each ancient fortification phase was also a massive earth-moving project, the detritus of the entire city found its way to the North Slope. Within the extensive fill, excavators uncovered indications of connections with Crete, Cyprus, Lebanon, and Egypt, while also collecting evidence of local Bronze Age agriculture and animal husbandry in an urban center.
An indispensable resource for scholars interested in the history of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean, Ashkelon 6 spans twenty-five chapters with more than 500 full-color pages and a number of foldout plans. The architecture, stratigraphy, pottery, and other finds are presented in detail, shedding new light on this important period in the history of ancient Canaan.

Ashkelon 6: The Middle Bronze Age Ramparts and Gates of the North Slope and Later Fortifications (Final Reports of The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon)

Voss, Ross J.

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OCHRE: an Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment

The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, 2)

Ashkelon 1: Introduction and Overview (1985–2006) (Final Reports of The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon)

Ashkelon 6: The Middle Bronze Age Ramparts and Gates of the North Slope and Later Fortifications (Final Reports of The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon)