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First Person: General Drori in Command

Does Israeli archaeology need military discipline?

By Hershel Shanks

In the nearly ten years that retired general Amir Drori has led the Israel Antiquities Authority, he has brought order and efficiency to a department that had been notably disorderly and inefficient. But he has yet to treat the archaeologists who work for him as professionals rather than as junior officers. These archaeologists are particularly vulnerable because there is no other place for them to go to practice their profession except the universities, which themselves are retrenching under financial pressures. Life can be miserable for any archaeologist who crosses Amir Drori. There have been enough examples that this is […]

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Footnotes

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See the following BAR articles: Hershel Shanks, “Archaeology’s Dirty Secret,” BAR 20:05; Shanks, “New Orleans Gumbo: Plenty of Spice at Annual Meeting,” BAR 23:02; Shanks, “‘Annual Miracle’ Visits Philadelphia,” BAR 22:02; and Donald Wiseman, “The Bottleneck of Archaeological Publication,” BAR 16:05. Also see Shanks, ed., Archaeology’s Publication Problem (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1996).