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This volume describes the lifecycle events and daily life activities experienced by girls and women in ancient Israel. It examines recent biblical scholarship as well as other textual evidence from the ancient Near East and Egypt.

In this volume, the theoretical and methodological approaches of household archaeology are applied to the rich data set of Bronze and Iron Age Israel, providing an innovative construct for interpreting material culture and inciting new avenues for future research.

Grave goods deposited in Middle and Late Bronze Age tombs in the southern Levant offers evidence for some of the activities surrounding death and are suggestive, perhaps, of some of the beliefs behind them. Ebeling further discusses the reasons why ground stone tools are found in the Middle and Late Bronze Age burials.

Few people in the world today work with stone tools that they, or their immediate community, manufactured. But this is a recent development, as stone tools have played a central role in daily life for many millennia, for hunter-gatherers, settled agriculturalists and pastoralists. As a fundamental component of the food-production tool kit, these are the most visible artifacts to provide information about a daily activity necessary to human survival. Ground stone tools can offer insights into such diverse phenomena as changes in diet and food processing techniques, mobility and residence patterns, division of labor, and specialized activities related to cultic practices.

Ebeling reviews Ancient Food Technology by Robert I. Curtis.

Ebeling reviews Anthropology, Archaeology and Cult: The Sanctuary at Gilat, Israel edited by Thomas E. Levy.