“Mud-Bricks, Construction and the Process of Urbanization in the Middle Bronze Age Levant” is the title of the paper that won this year’s Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize. Written by Robert S. Homsher of University College London Institute of Archaeology, it uses three sites—Dan, Megiddo and Pella—as case studies to analyze the process of construction during a period of urbanization in the Middle Bronze Age. The award is given for the best published article or paper (in English) presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian and Biblical Archaeology. Homsher’s winning paper was presented at the 2011 […]
