First Person: The Importance of Archaeological Provenance - The BAS Library

First Person: The Importance of Archaeological Provenance - The BAS Library

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One of the major issues facing archaeology is the issue of provenance, or specifically the lack thereof, with regard to archaeological objects.1

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Endnotes

1. A portion of this column was adapted from an earlier blog post (robertcargill.com/2017/07/19/the-museum-of-the-bible-why-are-archaeologists-and-bible-scholars-so-mad/).

2.
ASOR and SBL provide an exemption for cuneiform tablets (see, e.g., www.asor.org/initiatives-projects/asor-affiliated-archaeological-projects-2/standards-policies/policy-on-cuneiform-texts-from-iraq/).