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Dr. Yigal Levin (who served as the director of the academic programs during the summer excavation season at Tell es-Safi/Gath) showed me today that the new volume which he edited (A Time of Change: Judah and Its Neighbors in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods, ed. Y. Levin. London: T&T Clark International.) has just appeared.
During my trip to the N. America two weeks ago, Itzik Shai, Joe Uziel and I were invited by Prof. Jeff Chadwick to Brigham Young University to give a seminar to the university students and community.
Owen Chesnut has been kind enough to send me an excellent picture of a bunch of the “Safiites” having supper in downtown San Diego, one eveing last week during the ASOR meeting.
Today, I participated in a very interesting workshop on ceramic technology, given by Valentine Roux (from La Maison René Ginouvès d’Archéologie et d’Ethnologie in France), a world expert on ceramic technology. The workshop was held at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University, and was expertly organized by Dr. Nava Panitz-Cohen.
Just got back from a very hectic and busy week and a half in the US and Canada. In addition to participating in the ASOR meeting, I gave quite a few lectures. All the lectures went very well. At the ASOR meeting I heard some VERY GOOD lectures, some alright lectures, and as usual, some so-so …
It is always nice to see the various people working in the field, as well as to show them the results of our recent seasons. Needless to say, the great finds from Safi “knocked them out of their socks….”.
Very nicely, quite a few people expressed interest in joining us this summer as volunteers.
Aren
I’m off to North America for a series of lectures and meetings, so I probably won’t be blogging for awhile.
Among others, I will be lecturing at Brigham Young University, at the ASOR meeting in San Diego, at the Agency for Jewish Education in San Diego, in Orange County, CA., at the “Bible Fest” of the BAS, and at Columbia University.
Congradulations to Joe Uziel, senior staff member of the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavations, who is currently working on his PhD at Bar-Ilan University (on the MB II of the coastal plain of Israel) for his new article that just appeared in the newest issue of LEVANT.
This is the title of the article: Uziel, J. 2007 . The Development Process of Philistine Material Culture: Assimilation, Acculturation and Everything in Between. Levant 39: 165–73.
“Dig the Past” is a company that aims to “recreate” archaeological excavations in Israel for educational purposes. It is run by Aaron Greener and Mechael Asband, two graduates of the Dept. of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, and Ely Levine and Zach Margulies, who have participated in the Safi excavations have taken part in their activities as well. In fact, the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology serves as the academic academic sponsor of their activities.
Dig the Past is now looking for archaeologists who will work for the company in the USA.
Please see the add below:
I am glad to report the appearance of a new article on the finds from Tell es-Safi/Gath:
Horwitz, L., Lev-Tov, J., Chadwick, J., Wimmer, S., and Maeir, A. 2006. Working Bones: A Unique Iron Age IIA Bone Workshop from Tell es-Safi/Gath. Near Eastern Archaeology 66(3–4): 169–73. Read the rest of this entry »
Since I mentioned earlier the field school in archaeological science that will be conducted this summer as part of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project, I would like to make sure that everybody knows that in addition to this, the regular volunteering and field school programs will be running, as usual, this summer as well. The season will be from July 6th until August 1st, 2008.
Needless to say, we will have, as usual, a very interesting program, and of course, many interesting finds. (no, we don’t plant them …)
Be there – or be square!
For those interested, here is a the flyer for the dig (2008_flyer.ppt).
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