Abstract
From rural farmsteads to urban environments, the excavation of domestic contexts in the Southern Levant provides a rich dataset for investigating how households structured quotidian activities, social interactions, and meanings through spatial organization. This article examines how the material culture of Iron Age dwellings can aid in reconstructing patterns of behavior, social organization and ideologies pertaining to women. Comparing the contextual distribution of archaeological finds with ethnographic, ethnoarchaeological and textual data, can shed light on the use of space in Iron Age households and how this reflects on gender-associated activities and economic behaviors of the individuals who lived there. This study demonstrates that the domestic space was not a passive backdrop but an active medium through which social meanings were produced and reproduced.
Keywords
Iron Age II, women, division of labor by sex, use of space, gender, loom weights, four-room house, spatial analysis
Recommended Citation
Cassuto, D.
2026.
There’s No Place Like Home: Identifying Women
in Iron Age Houses.
'Atiqot 121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.2520
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol121/iss1/4