I am happy to share a new article on our research program on the Early Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath, funded by a joint grant Canadian SSHRC to Haskel Greenfield and Aren Maeir.
In this study, the evidence of household rituals, and in particular, those related to donkeys and donkey burials (and we have now identified 8 burials altogether), are presented.
The full title is:
Greenfield, H. J., Ross, J., Greenfield, T. L., Albaz, S., Richardson, S., and Maeir, A. M. 2022. Household rituals and merchant caravanners: The phenomenon of Early Bronze Age donkey burials from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. Animals 12: 1931. (doi.org/10.3390/ani12151931). It is open-access and free to download.
Haskel J. Greenfield 