The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
1. What is archaeology?
The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Aren Maeir [+]
Bar-Ilan University
Aren M. Maeir is a professor of archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel). He has published extensively on the Bronze and Iron Age of the Ancient Near East, including most recently Berlejung, A., Maeir. A. M., and Schuele, A., Wandering Arameans: Arameans Outside Syria - Textual and Archaeological Perspectives (Harrassowitz, 2017).
Description
What is Archaeology? Archaeology is the study of the human past, based primarily on the discovery, analysis, and interpretation of various kinds of physical evidence. Archaeology aims to broadly understand the evolution of the human species, and the development and changes in the culture, society, and daily life of ancient humans from all periods.