Lab talk – Hoo-Goo Kang on impressed handles from Kh. Qeiyafeh

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Today, we had the first of this academic year’s Tuesday morning lab talks. We had the opportunity to hear Hoo-Goo Kang, a PhD student of Yossi Garfinkel at Hebrew University, who is working on the Iron Age pottery from Kh. Qeiyafa, talk about the very interesting large collection of jar handles with a finger-like impression on them.
This phenomenon, which although known from other site is quite unique at Qeiyafa due to the large quantity of such handles, the date, and the possible meaning (perhaps hinting to some sort of bureaucratic structure), is very interesting and thought-provoking find.
Clearly, I won’t go into the details of his presentation so that he can publish it fully in the manner which he prefers, but it definitely is an important cultural facet of the early Iron Age Shephelah.

Here is Hoo-Goo giving his talk

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  1. I felt early on this was important and worth a thesis; now that the spectacular is out of the way. There were other unique pottery features that have not yet appeared in public presentations; I did not review the book to see if they were noted there. When we visited the IAA storage in Bet Shemesh, they said the finger mark it was so rare and inconsequential they had not bothered programming it into their computer program which tracks details, because there are only one or two found at different sites. Hoo-Goo is thorough, fantastic focus on site with a deep interest in everything , and is going to go far.

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