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Archive for December, 2008
Merry Christmas!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Busy Week
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just finished grading the final exams in my intro to Archaeology class. Now I have to finish a literature review for my dissertation proposal class. Christmas break should be quite busy, I’ll be working on an application for an ACOR fellowship and on a book review of Eric Meyers Festschrift. Oh, and the main thing [...]
Curtain Around Gaza
Posted in politics, tagged Gaza, Hamas, Israel on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Living conditions in Gaza are getting worse and worse, hunger and disease are widespread. Tim McGirk has a good post on this on Time’s Middle East Blog. Israel is now even keeping international reporters out, in the name of “security”. Having lived in Jerusalem for two years and being able to put human faces on [...]
First Article Published
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chalk Moat, Israelite, NEASB on December 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I received my copy of NEASB (Near Eastern Archaeological Society Bulletin) which contains my first article “Israelite Expansion Process in the Iron Age II: A Chalk Moat Perspective.” A very exciting moment for me, although it was strange, in a way, to see it in published form. I’m going to read through it today [...]
Area F at Tell es-Safi
Posted in Israel archaeology, tagged ASOR annual meeting, Gath, Sargon, Sennacherib on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing the Philistine theme from yesterday I have to write about Jeff Chadwick’s paper on “Assyrian and Judean Presence at Gath of the Philistines in the 8th Century BCE.” I dug in area F for two seasons and Jeff was (and still is) the area supervisor.
Excavations in F Upper have uncovered two distinct destruction layers; [...]
Random Day at ASOR
Posted in Israel archaeology, Jordan archaeology, tagged ASOR annual meeting, Boston on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you unable to attend the annual meetings or who wonder what they are like I thought I would post a typical day from Boston. This day was the longest for me and should help explain why I couldn’t post more during the meetings.
5:15 AM – Wake up, get ready, and eat breakfast. [...]
Qubur al-Walaydah Excavations
Posted in Israel archaeology, tagged Egyptian residency, Iron Age, Philistines on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This paper was supposed to be read by Gunnar Lehmann, but he wasn’t there. So being the Philistines II session, Aren Maeir read the paper (his second relief appearance of the morning). The paper was a preliminary report of excavations in 2008. The site is located near Tell el-Far’ah south along the Nahal Besor. It [...]
Mt. Zion Excavations
Posted in Israel archaeology, tagged ASOR annual meeting, Mt. Zion on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yehiel Zelinger of the Israel Antiquities Authority spoke on “The Southern Fortifications of Jerusalem during the Hasmonean and Byzantine Periods.” As most of you probably already know, this dig was carried out to reexamine the previous excavations of Bliss and Dickie in the late 1800’s. The excavations revealed remains of the Byzantine wall (dating to [...]
