Digging Up Jericho

Contents

Preface: Digging up Jericho – Bill Finlayson ;

Part I – Past ;
The Jericho Excavations in Historical Context ;
Jericho in the Collections of the Palestine Exploration Fund – Felicity Cobbing ;
Jericho in the Media – Rachael Thyrza Sparks ;
The Photographic Methodology of Kenyon’s Jericho – Stuart Laidlaw ;
Jericho Syndromes: ‘Digging Up Jericho’ as Ritual Dramas of Possession – Beverley Butler ;
Square Pegs in Round Holes – John Carswell ;
The Impact of Kenyon’s Excavations at Tell es-Sultan on Dutch Archaeology in the Near East – Bart Wagemakers ;
Reconsidering Results from Past Excavations ;
Finding and Losing the Person Within: A Neolithic Plastered Skull from Jericho – Alexandra Fletcher ;
Kenyon, Jericho and the Amorites – Kay Prag ;
Metal Weapons and Social Differentiation at Bronze Age Tell es-Sultan – Daria Montanari ;
Jericho Tomb P23 in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities – Christine Erkelens and Lucas Petit ;
A New Umayyad Mosque at Khirbet el-Mafjar, and other Discoveries: A New Understanding through Architectural Stratigraphy and Landscape Archaeology – Ignacio Arce ;

Part II – Present ;
Current Fieldwork ;
The Italian-Palestinian Expedition to Tell es-Sultan, Ancient Jericho (1997–2015): Archaeology and Valorisation of Material and Immaterial Heritage – Lorenzo Nigro ;
Mudbricks and Modular Architecture at Tell es-Sultan from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age – Gaia Ripepi ;
Protecting the People: The Fortification Systems of Middle Bronze Age Jericho in Light of the Italian-Palestinian Excavations – Chiara Fiaccavento and Elisabetta Gallo ;
The Jericho Mafjar Project: Palestine-University of Chicago Research at Khirbet el-Mafjar – Donald Whitcomb ;
Cities and Palaces: Khirbet el-Mafjar and the Evolution of Settlements on the Jericho Plain – Michael Jennings ;
Two Decades of Archaeology in Jericho, 1994–2015 – Hamdan Taha ;

Part III – Future ;
Preserving the Archaeological Past for the Future ;
Neolithic Heritage, Jericho and the West Bank – Bill Finlayson and Paul Burtenshaw ;
The Hisham’s Palace Site and Museum Project – Jack Green ;

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