When my kids listen to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd, I proudly tell them that when the legendary sound track of the 1960s and the 1970s was created, “I was there.” Studying archaeology in the early 1970s, at a time when major intellectual transformations reshaped the discipline, my generation of archaeologists also “was there.” Indeed, this generation of Israeli archaeologists are children of three successive archaeological paradigms: (1) traditional (or culture history), (2) modern (scientific, processual) and (3) postmodern (interpretive, reflexive). How did we experience these disciplinary “revolutions” in Israel, and what is their impact on the […]
