Endnote 25 – How Mute Stones Speak: Interpreting What We Dig Up

For the Wheeler-Kenyon method of excavation, see Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Archaeology from the Earth (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956); Kathleen M. Kenyon, Beginning in Archaeology, 2nd ed. (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1971). For an appraisal of this method and of Kenyon’s role in Palestinian archaeology, see Peter R.S. Moorey, “Kathleen Kenyon and Palestinian Archaeology,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly (1979), pp. 3–10; A Century of Biblical Archaeology, pp. 94–99, 122–126; Gabriel Barkay, “The Excavation Methods of Kathleen Kenyon,” Archaeologia 3 (1992), pp. 41–58 (Hebrew). For a comprehensive discussion of formation processes, see Michael B. Schiffer, Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987).