First Person: In Praise of Published Excavation Reports
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Footnotes
See Hershel Shanks, ed., Archaeology’s Publication Problem, vols. 1 and 2 (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1996, 1999). See also Hershel Shanks, “Archaeology’s Dirty Secret,” BAR 20:05.
See Eilat Mazar, “Hadrian’s Legion: Encamped on the Temple Mount,” BAR 32:06.
For more about the Tel Dan finds, see “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02; BAR Interview: Avraham Biran, “Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan,” BAR 13:04; Avraham Biran, “Tel Dan Scepter Head,” BAR 15:01; John C. H. Laughlin, “The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan,” BAR 07:05.
See Thomas E. Levy and Mohammad Najjar, “
Avraham Biran, “‘And David Sent Spoils … to the Elders of Aroer,’” BAR 09:02.
Endnotes
Eilat Mazar, The Temple Mount Excavations in Jerusalem 1968–1978 Directed by Benjamin Mazar, Final Reports, Qedem 43, 46 (Jerusalem: The Hebrew Univ., 2003, 2007).
Eilat Mazar, The Temple Mount Excavations in Jerusalem 1968–1978 Directed by Benjamin Mazar, Final Reports, Volume IV: The Tenth Legion in Aelia Capitolina, Qedem 52 (Jerusalem: The Hebrew Univ., 2011).
Lawrence E. Stager, Daniel M. Master and J. David Schloen, Ashkelon 3—The Seventh Century B.C. (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011).
Rachel Ben-Dov, Dan III—Avraham Biran Excavations 1966–1999. The Late Bronze Age (Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College, 2011).
Yifat Thareani with the participation of Itamar Taxel, Tel `Aroer: The Iron Age II Caravan Town and the Hellenistic-Early Roman Settlement (Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College, 2011). This report covers not only the years 1975–1982, when Biran led the excavation, but also 1975–1976, when Rudolph Cohen led the excavation.