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I have just been notified that a poster that was submitted to a joint Israeli-German scientific symposium on “Water is Life” (held in December 2005 in Jerusalem), marking 40 years of scientific collaboration between Israel and Germany, has now been put on line.
The poster summarizes the first stages of the cooperative, joint project between Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan (rep. A. Maeir) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich (rep. M. Goerg and S. Wimmer) for the study of the cultural development of the Philistines.
This project is aims to combine the archaeological evidence (primarily from the excavations of Tell es-Safi/Gath) with a study of the historical, linguistic, and anthropological data, to understand the transformation and development of the Philistine culture, from the viewpoint of the transformation of an immigrant culture in a new and different environment.
The project is being funded by the German-Israel Fund for Scientific Research and Development (GIF) for 3 years (2005-2007) (project # I-799-176.4/2003).
Aren
On Thursday, March 9th, 2006, the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, both of Bar-Ilan University, will be holding a meeting in honor of Prof. Mordechai (Morduk) Kislev, who is retiring from teaching at the University. Prof. Kislev is one of the world’s leading paleobotanists, and has published extensively on a wide range of issues, including ground-breaking studies on the early domestication of plants in the Ancient Near East. In the conference, there will be 4 sessions, dealing respectively with: Plants and their use; Ancient economy; Early agriculture; Agriculture and economy. The lecturers will include S. Lev-Yadun, M. Artzi, A. Maeir, A. Faust, H. Eshel, D. Zohari, E. Weiss, Z. Safrai, A. Danin, and others.
Since I have recently been asked about this several times, I wanted to inform all those interested in joining our team this summer, that this year (and hopefully in future seasons as well), we will be enjoying the accommodations of the Kibbutz Revadim Guest House. Located about 10 km from the tell, right off the main road between Jerusalem and Ashkelon (route 3), the conditions at Kibbutz Revadim are a substantial improvement over what we had in previous years (’nuff said!). The Kibbutz has recently completely revamped its guest services, with modern and well-made facilities, including hotel-like services, modern guest rooms (cleaned on a regular basis!), good food, a very nice pool, etc. (for pictures of the various facilities, please check out the pictures on the Hebrew website of Kibbutz Revadim). In addition, on the kibbutz one can visit the Philistine Museum, which has a very well-made exhibition of finds from the excavations at Miqne-Ekron (Gath of the Philistines sister city), and recreations of various aspects of Philistine life (such as the olive oil industry, ceramics, weaving, etc.).
BTW – for those of you who participated in past years on the Miqne-Ekron project and remember the accommodations at the time–don’t worry–the accommodations at Revadim have COMPLETELY CHANGED! :-)
Aren
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