{"id":1021,"date":"2014-04-07T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancient-world-project.nes.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/?page_id=1021"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:04:57","slug":"tel-qasila","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/videos\/tel-qasila\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignfull has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#41652c\">Tel Qasile<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">A further focus of the lecture, the <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/resources\/glossary\/#Philistines\">Philistines<\/a>, merits a closer examination through another trip with Eliav. This time we will accompany him to Tel Qasile, a site near Tel Aviv often associated with the Philistines (<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/resources\/\">cf. Maps<\/a>). The excavations at the site unearthed numerous finds, chief of which was an ancient temple. As you watch the video, write down the data that seem to indicate a Philistine presence at Tel Qasile. Note: these matters will be dealt with in greater detail in the reading by T. Dothan given below [#20].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"--col-width:25%;flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"--col-width:50%;flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tel Qasila (Tel Aviv Israel)\" width=\"1240\" height=\"930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EU2j5KfrUvE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"--col-width:25%;flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"question\">\n\n<p class=\"question-p\">Question<\/p>\n\n<p>Why were the Seashore plains, and Tel Qasile specifically, so attractive to the Sea Peoples as a place for settlement? Use information from the clip and from Trude Dothan&#8217;s article (#20) to substantiate your answer. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tel Qasile A further focus of the lecture, the Philistines, merits a closer examination through another trip with Eliav. This time we will accompany him to Tel Qasile, a site near Tel Aviv often associated with the Philistines (cf. Maps). The excavations at the site unearthed numerous finds, chief of which was an ancient temple.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/videos\/tel-qasila\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3892,"featured_media":0,"parent":318,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tw-no-title.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1021","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021\/revisions\/2953"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/israel-palestine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}