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The Tell Deir Allā Challenge To Palestinian Archaeology

The Tell Deir Allā Challenge To Palestinian Archaeology REVIEWS THE TELL DEIR � ALL � CHALLENGE TO PALESTINIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Excavations at Tell Deir cAlla I: A Stratigraphical and Analytical Study of the Early Iron Age Pottery, by H. J. FRANKEN with contributions by J. KALSBEEK. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1969. 249 pp. with 80 figs. + 15 pls. (Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui XVI). Final excavation reports may be assigned to four categories. The first merely reports what the excavator finds according to his own impressions. A higher standard is achieved by reports fitted into the structure of cur- rently available evidence. The third group offers evidence confirming, sharpening, and developing the structure. To a final category belong reports which specify the limitations of the structure and offer evidence of new horizons requiring major restructuring or different structures. Tell Deir All,7 I is one of the rare Palestinian excavation reports to fall into the last category. As a matter of fact, it seems defensible to argue that the report of Henk FRANKEN and his ceramic expert, J. KALSBEEK, is the first to belong to that category. The basic contributions of the final excavation reports of such patriarchs of Palestinian archaeology as G. A. REISNER and W. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

The Tell Deir Allā Challenge To Palestinian Archaeology

Lapp, Paul W.
Vetus Testamentum , Volume 20 (2): 243 – Jan 1, 1970
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© 1970 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-4935
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REVIEWS THE TELL DEIR � ALL � CHALLENGE TO PALESTINIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Excavations at Tell Deir cAlla I: A Stratigraphical and Analytical Study of the Early Iron Age Pottery, by H. J. FRANKEN with contributions by J. KALSBEEK. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1969. 249 pp. with 80 figs. + 15 pls. (Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui XVI). Final excavation reports may be assigned to four categories. The first merely reports what the excavator finds according to his own impressions. A higher standard is achieved by reports fitted into the structure of cur- rently available evidence. The third group offers evidence confirming, sharpening, and developing the structure. To a final category belong reports which specify the limitations of the structure and offer evidence of new horizons requiring major restructuring or different structures. Tell Deir All,7 I is one of the rare Palestinian excavation reports to fall into the last category. As a matter of fact, it seems defensible to argue that the report of Henk FRANKEN and his ceramic expert, J. KALSBEEK, is the first to belong to that category. The basic contributions of the final excavation reports of such patriarchs of Palestinian archaeology as G. A. REISNER and W.

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Published: Jan 1, 1970

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