Milestones: Ruth Amiran (1914–2005)

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Ruth Amiran, one of the founders of Israeli archaeology, passed away in Jerusalem in December 2005.
Ruth was born in Yavneel, in Ottoman Palestine, in 1914 and received her M.A. in archaeology from The Hebrew University in 1939.

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Footnotes

See review by Eric M. Meyers of Early Arad II: The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze IB Settlements and the Early Bronze II City—Architecture and Town Planning, BAR 24:06.