Cultural Crossroads

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The Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom are periods in Egyptian chronology. They are roughly equivalent to the Middle Bronze Age (2200–1550 B.C.) and the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 B.C.) in Palestinian chronology.

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Author Trude Dothan, working on behalf of the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University, and Osnat Misch-Brandl and Bella Gershovich, of the Israel Museum, are preparing to publish the anthropoid coffins and burial gifts illicitly excavated from Deir el-Balah and now housed in the Israel Museum. The publication of this catalogue will be the final stage in Dothan’s study of this unique site.

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The archaeological expedition at Deir el-Balah was carried out by the Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University and was headed by myself. I would especially like to mention a number of the participants who were involved with the excavations and publications of the cemetery and settlement: Baruch Brandl (field archaeologist and stratigrapher), Gary Lipton (surveyor), Ann Killebrew (field archaeologist), Bonnie Gould (pottery registrar), and Zev Radovan (photographer).
The cemetery was published in Qedem 10 (1987). Two additional volumes in the Qedem series (a completion of the report on the cemetery and the settlement) will be published shortly.

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He published the following articles in BAR: “Edomites Advance into Judah—Israelite Defensive Fortresses Inadequate,” BAR 22:06; “The Route Through Sinai—Why the Israelites Fleeing Egypt Went South,” BAR 14:03; “New Light on the Edomites,” BAR 14:02; and “Fifteen Years in Sinai,” BAR 10:04.

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This process determines the chemical composition of an object. See Maureen F. Kaplan, “Using Neutron Activation Analysis to Establish the Provenance of Pottery,” BAR 02:01.

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See, for example, Carolyn R. Higginbotham, “The Egyptianizing of Canaan: How Iron-Fisted Was Pharaonic Rule in the City-States of Syria-Palestine?” BAR 24:03.