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Any Time, Any Place: A Dig for Every Interest

How far back can we peer into human history? Like astrophysicists gazing at the edge of the universe to detect evidence of the Big Bang, archaeologists and paleontologists search back before “history” to trace out human origins.

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Footnotes

1.

See the following BAR articles: Thomas E. Levy, “How Ancient Man First Utilized Rivers in the Desert,” BAR 16:06; and Claire Epstein, “Before History—The Golan’s Chalcolithic Heritage,” BAR 21:06.

2.

See the following BAR articles: Kenneth A. Kitchen, “The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?” BAR 21:02; and Ronald S. Hendel, “Finding Historical Memories in the Patriarchal Narratives,” BAR 21:04.

3.

See the following BAR articles: Bryant G. Wood, “Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho?” BAR 16:02; Yohanan Aharoni, “The Israelite Occupation of Canaan,” BAR 08:03; and Yigael Yadin, “Is the Biblical Account of the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Historically Reliable?” BAR 08:02.

4.

See the two-part article by Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin, “Ekron of the Philistines,” BAR 16:01 and “Ekron of the Philistines, Part II,” BAR 16:02.

5.

See the following BAR articles: “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02; André Lemaire, “‘House of David’ Restored in Moabite Inscription,” BAR 20:03; Philip R. Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand,” BAR 20:04; and Volkmar Fritz, “Where Is David’s Ziklag?” BAR 19:03.

6.

See Timothy Renner, Moshe Kochavi, Ira Spar and Esther Yadin, “Rediscovered! The Land of Geshur,” BAR 18:04.

7.

See the following BAR articles: Leen Ritmeyer, “The Ark of the Covenant: Where It Stood in Solomon’s Temple,” BAR 22:01; Graham I. Davies, “King Solomon’s Stables—Still at Megiddo?” BAR 20:01; Alexander Flinder, “Is This Solomon’s Seaport?” BAR 15:04; and Valerie M. Fargo, “Is the Solomonic Gate at Megiddo Really Solomonic?” BAR 09:05.

8.

See Dan Gill, “How They Met,” BAR 20:04; Terence Kleven, “Up the Waterspout,” BAR 20:04 and Simon B. Parker, “Siloam Inscription Memorializes Engineering Achievement,” BAR 20:04.

9.

See Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel and Ada Yardeni, “Rare DSS Text Mentions King Jonathan,” BAR 20:01.

10.

See the following BAR articles: Barbara Burrell, Kathryn Gleason and Ehud Netzer, “Uncovering Herod’s Seaside Palace,” BAR 19:03; Leen Ritmeyer, “Locating the Original Temple Mount,” BAR 18:02; and Meir Ben-Dov, “Herod’s Mighty Temple Mount,” BAR 12:06.

11.

See the following BAR articles: Joan E. Taylor, “The Garden of Gethsemane: Not the Place of Jesus’ Arrest,” BAR 21:04; Dan Bahat, “Does the Holy Sepulchre Church Mark the Burial of Jesus?” BAR 12:03; Gabriel Barkay, “The Garden Tomb—Was Jesus Buried Here?” BAR 12:02; Vassilios Tzaferis, “Crucifixion—The Archaeological Evidence,” BAR 11:01; and James F. Strange and Hershel Shanks, “Synagogue Where Jesus Preached Found at Capernaum,” BAR 09:06.

12.

See the following BAR articles: Jodi Magness, “Masada—Arms and the Man,” BAR 18:04; and Ehud Netzer, “The Last Days and Hours at Masada,” BAR 17:06.

13.

See Yizhar Hirschfeld, “Spirituality in the Desert: Judean Wilderness Monasteries,” BAR 21:05.