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Milestones: Brian Hesse (1944–2011)

Brian Hesse, professor of Jewish studies, anthropology and ancient Mediterranean studies at Pennsylvania State University and a leading specialist on ancient animal bones and the zooarchaeology of the Levant, passed away in April. He was 66.

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Footnotes

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Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish, “The Zooarchaeological Record: Pigs’ Feet, Cattle Bones and Birds’ Wings,” sidebar to Lawrence E. Stager, “The Fury of Babylon,” BAR 22:01.

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Lawrence E. Stager, “Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon?” BAR 17:03.

Endnotes

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See Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish, “Pig Use and Abuse in the Ancient Levant: Ethnoreligious Boundary-Building with Swine,” in Sarah M. Nelson, ed., Ancestors for the Pigs: Pigs in Prehistory (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum, 1998), pp. 123–135.