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Archaeological Views: Lighting the Way

Material Culture Illuminates Religious Identity

By Gregg E. Gardner

It started in 2006 at Apollonia-Arsuf, a picturesque archaeological site excavated jointly by Brown University and Tel Aviv University that sits on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea about 14 miles north of Tel Aviv. That summer, I served as an area supervisor, overseeing a trench whose finds dated to the Roman and Byzantine periods. Like all sites in Israel and the Near East, Apollonia was rich in ceramic finds. Because pottery vessels generally are not used for very long, yet their discarded fragments survive for centuries, ceramics are the most widely used tool for dating archaeological layers.a Oil […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Jodi Magness, Archaeological Views, “Why Pottery Matters,” BAR 33:01. See also Nava Panitz-Cohen, Archaeological Views, “Going to Pot: The Love-Hate Relationship of an Archaeologist and Her Pottery,” BAR 36:03.

2.

See Jodi Magness, “Illuminating Byzantine Jerusalem,” BAR 24:02.