Introduction -- Archaeology and ethnicity -- Israelite ethnicity : state of research -- Israelite markers and behavior -- Meat consumption -- Decorated pottery -- Imported pottery -- Pottery forms and repertoire -- The four-room house -- Circumcision and ethnicity -- Hierarchy and equality : the roots of the Israelite egalitarian ethos -- Settlement patterns in the Iron Age I-Iron Age II transition -- Ethnicity and statehood in ancient Israel -- The Philistines in the Iron Age I -- Totemism to ethnicity : the Philistines and Israel's self-identification -- Merenptah's Israel : Israel in the late thirteenth century BCE -- Israel's emergence : the beginnings -- Origins reconsidered -- Pots and peoples revisited : Israelites, Philistines and Canaanites -- Transjordan revisited -- Summary and conclusions -- Postscript
