From the Editors

This issue of JEMAHS contains articles that represent our commitment to exploring new ways of analyzing sites, features, and landscapes. From a holistic methodology for studying domestic spaces to the value of incorporating legacy data into the planning of surveys and investigation and preservation of sites, the articles that follow introduce a variety of concepts. The authors of two of these articles use a construct from the French Annales School that has long been embraced by archaeologists—the longue durée—to contextualize the specific methodological toolkits with which they approach the archaeological task. While, in history, this concept was a move away from archives-directed research, the authors of our articles demonstrate how archival data in archaeology is essential to a long-term perspective that not only encompasses the site but also its history of exploration. This is a particularly important approach in the Near East, a region that has been the subject of archaeological research since the late eighteenth century.Another innovative approach to archaeological analysis is presented in this issue's first article by Shulamit Miller, Yuli Gekht, S. Rebecca Martin, Sveta Matskevich, and Ilan Sharon (ז"ל) on the houses of Hellenistic-Roman Tel Dor in Israel. Using access and lighting analyses, architectural planning, and a study of decoration, they derive conclusions about how people used their homes for various purposes, including economic activities. Their investigations succeed in bringing to the fore a recurrent and long-term process for the planning of domestic spaces in the region. The authors were able to discern where activities occurred within a given domestic space with greater specificity than can be gained from the usual methods, and these insights in turn lead them to detailed and, in some cases, surprising insights about social class at the site over time.Next, Debra Foran, Andrew Danielson, Gregory Braun, Stanley Klassen, Věra Doležalkova, Grant Ginson, and Christine Sylvester present the results of their archival and archaeological survey of Khirbat al-Mukhayyat in Jordan. Finding that the use of legacy data greatly enriched their perspectives on the occupational history of this region, the authors explore in detail the significance of this data for gaining insights that can aid future explorations of the region.In our third article, also concerned with legacy data, Craig A. Harvey, Emanuele Ettore Intagliata, Katarína Mokránová, Rubina Raja, and Mara Zoppi explore the cultural heritage management aspects of using legacy data at Khirbet Al-Khalde in Jordan. The authors advocate for the inclusion of such data to track the extent of the site's destruction in more recent times, making it possible to construct a plausible chronological narrative of damage done to the site over the decades since it experienced its first exploration.An informative book review section in this issue covers new publications on globalization and the Iron Age in the Mediterranean, illegal trafficking in antiquities, the economic and social aspects of Roman storage, and an exploration of regions and communities in early Greece.