Assaf Yasur Landau | Red Wine and Minoan Frescoes: The Canaanite Palace at Tel Kabri

Assaf Yasur-Landau, Associate Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa.
Tel Kabri, in the western Galilee of Israel, is a large site surrounded by rich agricultural land. During the Middle Bronze Age it was the center of a Canaanite polity and its proximity to the Mediterranean coast facilitated its connections to major land routes, as well as to the sea. Over the last decade, the vast palace of Kabri was extensively excavated by co-directors Assaf Yasur-Landau and Eric H. Cline. The palace, abandoned after the Middle Bronze Age, provides an extraordinary opportunity to gain insights into the life of Canaanite elite and into the political economy. The strong Mediterranean connections of the palace are demonstrated by the commission of paintings in an Aegean style-a rare phenomenon in the Middle Bronze eastern Mediterranean. Maritime trade provided access to imported goods, such as Cypriot pottery and cedar from Lebanon. At the same time, there are no signs of literate administration in the palace, or even of an administrative use of sealings. Patterns of animal husbandry, textile production, pottery manufacture and consumption, and storage within the palace all provide evidence that it behaved economically more like an estate than like a redistributive center. The recent find of large wine storage rooms may provide an unexpected explanation to the ways Canaanite rulers used the palatial economy to further its political goals.
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[@raizelm1578]

Clever and witty speaker, well researched and interesting topic. 10:10!

[@kaarlimakela3413]

The phenomena of historic and pre-historic people grouping together is zeroing in on how and why ... from the earliest small structures showing sites centered around family maintenance, to big enclosed political/religious areas where some excess of production was safely stored and traded. What are the pressures from the outside in each case? What were the various systems used to organize these new set-ups? Where can it be shown that town residents were better off or worse off than those residing outside the walls? If it's worse in town for most people, what would draw people in? And of course, who is in charge, and who is enslaved? All these questions fascinate me, particularly in this period being discussed.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Thank you

[@cavemancaveman5190]

Holy beans! The riverbend looks like the milky way

[@cavemancaveman5190]

What are they trying to model at this position above the milky way? Star or planet? Evolution suggests planet

[@tomnalichanel6753]

Thank you so much. Excellent lecture, excellent research.

[@ina4054]

Maricaghak, my armenian grandmother,blessed her sole, used to tell me of a great earthquake in ancient times in this city

[@sariputraa]

i'm delighted!!!!!!! thank you!!!!!!!!! in the 5 years that passed since this publication, what have you found? I'm very interested in minoan culture and history.

[@Funk5Punk]

Very interesting lecture. Thanks!

[@munihousen123]

Thank you. Passionate speaker. Great subject mater.

[@thomasmccarthy9758]

I enjoyed that! T

[@CmacKw]

All it means is the logarithm used to calibrate the radiocarbon samples is in error. This is likely due to the absence of reliable locally available tree ring samples that extend from the early 17th to the early 15th century. The other problem is the nature of the Thera Event. There is evidence it may have covered an extended period of time. Nonetheless, the chronology of the 18th dynasty, which is when Minoan pottery and influence within Egypt halts is anchored by a large number of reliable tree ring dates associated with the Uluburun Shipwreck. The Uluburun Shipwreck confirms that 18th dynasty short count chronology is correct. In Egypt, Minoan imports, ceramics, exotic artifacts, and tomb depictions end at the same time the palace of Thutmose III and remodeled by Amunhotep II at Tell el Dab'a in the eastern Nile delta was abandoned. This would date the final catastrophic stage of the Thera Event to the late 16th century.

[@TinyEpics]

Nice lecture! Good inspiration for a new video perhaps. Made one recently on the frescoes at Knossos and Akrotiri.

[@business5368]

I always wonder how carbon dating is affected by the absorption of modern carbon, especially in damp, fertile environments

[@gruboniell4189]

They were using wine as local currency? In Australia back in the day, we used to use rum to trade locally cause the redcoats wouldn’t let us have money. So we traded rum

[@youlemur]

KEEP CALM and TRUST EGYPTOLOGY

[@laplataforma8072]

The inhabitants of el,Kabri were minoans.

[@RonJohn63]

17:16 Why was there so much primitive African art in Manhattan in the 1960s?

[@gruboniell4189]

Egypt are still Egyptians! Everything is a secret Look to Anatolia archeologists cause it’s less tainted with.... let’s say ego

[@gruboniell4189]

Any other research then from Egypt. I love Egypt but, aye. That Sphinx is older then they say

[@37Dionysos]

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[@veronicalogotheti5416]

The sea people went in 1200bc They are not the minoans

[@37Dionysos]

@@veronicalogotheti5416 No, they were post-Minoans, continuities are many. Happy to discuss. ancientlights.org/CalendarHouse/ch9.html

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

In 1500bc more or less is was the volcan of thera People left So many went to canaan

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Of course they were post the minoans a writing

[@37Dionysos]

@@veronicalogotheti5416 Yes with many stops along the way including Cyprus. The post and novel above and the link sent afterward tell the archaeological and legendary stories

[@carlfx1]

So basically the ancients loved their Negroni cocktails, so nothing much has changed then.

[@lindanwfirefighter4973]

Carbon dating is very flawed! With various samples from same object sometimes 10,000 years apart in resulting age proves this. People selectively choose the date that fits their anticipated results!

[@user-ge8yn4ql4i]

Richard clarke then you take an element with a larger half-life and problem solved.

[@bcast9978]

Richard, C-14 has a ~5700 year old half life. So as long as something being dated that is not older than 58,000 years BP, we get extremely accurate results.

[@RonJohn63]

Yes, and the world is 6000 years old... :D

[@geomak7093]

What a load of bs is this?? 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[@rkpetry]

They don't show-or don't know,-their rulers... Given that Kriti Crete was formerly the famed Isle of Atlantis ruled by Poseidon (Ap'Sidon father-Sidon) son of Canaan son of Ham son of Noah (Ziũs Udra), in upper-lineage of the gods, they'd rule more discreetly.

[@robertohlen4980]

Bible loon

[@marathamarrak7037]

Raumond K Petry, please go back to school and stop use bible into history

[@geomak7093]

Raymond, keep dreaming man. You are a total "nothing" in front of the greek civilization . You are classic thieves of everything.

[@kazklay2210]

I'd have to look into that... if you're right it's just another piece of very very interesting info

[@marcmalki734]

They showed women, women were the rulers..