Save the date: December 1st, 2011 – Lecture by Louise Hitchcock at Albright

On Thursday afternoon (4 pm), December 1st, 2011, Louise Hitchcock, long-term senior team member of the Tell es-Safi/Gath team (and leader of the University of Melbourne team at the excavations) will be presenting a lecture at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem (26 Salah ed-Din st., Jerusalem).
The lecture is entitled: “The Philistine Remains at Tell es-Safi/Gath and their Regional and Transcultural Connections with the Aegean and Cyprus”. In this lecture, Louise will discuss the finds relating to the Philistine culture that have been found at Tell es-Safi/Gath and their implications for understanding the development and relations with other cultures and regions in the eastern Mediterranean.
If you are interested in listening to this lecture, do get in touch with the Albright Institute to inform them that you will be coming to the lecture.

Here is a picture of Louise (with the green shirt) and some of the members of the Melbourne team, standing around an early Iron Age I Philistine garbage pit (it is quite astounding what it takes to make archaeologists happy!)…

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