Community Archaeology in Israel/Palestine
Raz Kletter [+–]
University of Helsinki
postdoctoral studies (Oxford UK, 1996), he worked in the IAA as Deputy of Finds Department, Senior Archaeologist, and Head of Scientific Processing (1990–2007). He directed and published many excavations in Israel/Palestine. Major excavation reports include Yavneh, The “Temple Hill” Repository Pit (two volumes, 2010, 2015); and Rishon le-Zion, the Middle Bronze Age Cemeteries (2018, Vols. 1a-b). Kletter is an authority of coroplastic art and religion (The Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Asherah, Oxford 1996); economy (Economic Keystones, Sheffield 1998); and history of archaeology (Just Past? The Making of Israeli Archaeology, London 2006; and Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, London 2019).
Liora Kolska Horwitz [+–]
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Natural History Collections of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the cultural and biological interface between humans and their natural environment, with a special focus on animals. She has published extensively in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters, in addition to editing monographs and special issues of journals. She is a member of the Negev Rock Art Center, co-editor of the Israel Journal of Prehistory, and participant in numerous field projects in Israel and South Africa, including co-directing the Wonderwerk Cave project (South Africa).
Emanuel Pfoh [+–]
CONICET & University of Helsinki
Although Community (or Public) Archaeology originated in western countries, it has now spread all over the world. It integrates the archaeological past with living peoples in new and unique ways. It is however, a rather loosely-defined field; to some it means an attitude and a theoretical concept, which is, or should be, valid for archaeology as a whole and for every archaeologist. For others it is a certain practice or sub-field of archaeology, which by now has its own experts – that is, community archaeologists.
It is perhaps not surprising that in Israel/Palestine Community Archaeology touches heavily upon the present, perhaps more than upon the past. No archaeology in this region is ‘neutral’ and the living communities are part of the heated, on-going political, social and religious conflicts that have shaped the past, and are shaping this land for over more than a hundred years. The question is whether archaeology, including Community Archaeology, strive to neutrality? Can Community Archaeology free us from the hegemonic position of the archaeologies of nations and states?
This is the first volume dedicated to Community Archaeology in Israel/Palestine. Chapters in the book challenge (in several ways, though not always explicitly) the traditional “Biblical Archaeology” approach to the archaeology of Israel/Palestine. They present their individual concepts and ideas about Community Archaeology in Israel/Palestine, bringing different questions and treating different case studies, and also reaching different though not unrelated conclusions. The volume gives a first, refreshing look of a new archaeology in an old land.
Series: Discourses in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
postdoctoral studies (Oxford UK, 1996), he worked in the IAA as Deputy of Finds Department, Senior Archaeologist, and Head of Scientific Processing (1990–2007). He directed and published many excavations in Israel/Palestine. Major excavation reports include Yavneh, The “Temple Hill” Repository Pit (two volumes, 2010, 2015); and Rishon le-Zion, the Middle Bronze Age Cemeteries (2018, Vols. 1a-b). Kletter is an authority of coroplastic art and religion (The Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Asherah, Oxford 1996); economy (Economic Keystones, Sheffield 1998); and history of archaeology (Just Past? The Making of Israeli Archaeology, London 2006; and Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, London 2019).
Natural History Collections of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the cultural and biological interface between humans and their natural environment, with a special focus on animals. She has published extensively in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters, in addition to editing monographs and special issues of journals. She is a member of the Negev Rock Art Center, co-editor of the Israel Journal of Prehistory, and participant in numerous field projects in Israel and South Africa, including co-directing the Wonderwerk Cave project (South Africa).
Chapter 2
She has been working as a researcher in training activities in cultural heritage conservation projects in the Middle East since 1999. Until 2008, she assisted Prof. Michele Piccirillo, Director of the Archaeological Museum of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem. Currently, she works in Palestine and Jordan in heritage conservation and training activities for the Italian association pro Terra Sancta and the Palestinian NGO Mosaic Centre
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and Corresponding Researcher in the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He has also been visiting lecturer at several universities in Argentina as part of the “Raíces” program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of that country. Until recently he was Head of the Prehistoric Branch of the IAA. His research focused on the socio-economic processes of the late prehistory of the southern Levant utilizing a historical materialistic viewpoint. In the last few years his main research concentrates on cultural heritage issues, archaeological theory and the art history of the Levantine prehistory and protohistory. He has produced more than 150 articles and chapters in books, and 15 authored and edited volumes.
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postdoctoral studies (Oxford UK, 1996), he worked in the IAA as Deputy of Finds Department, Senior Archaeologist, and Head of Scientific Processing (1990–2007). He directed and published many excavations in Israel/Palestine. Major excavation reports include Yavneh, The “Temple Hill” Repository Pit (two volumes, 2010, 2015); and Rishon le-Zion, the Middle Bronze Age Cemeteries (2018, Vols. 1a-b). Kletter is an authority of coroplastic art and religion (The Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Asherah, Oxford 1996); economy (Economic Keystones, Sheffield 1998); and history of archaeology (Just Past? The Making of Israeli Archaeology, London 2006; and Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, London 2019).
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Natural History Collections of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the cultural and biological interface between humans and their natural environment, with a special focus on animals. She has published extensively in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters, in addition to editing monographs and special issues of journals. She is a member of the Negev Rock Art Center, co-editor of the Israel Journal of Prehistory, and participant in numerous field projects in Israel and South Africa, including co-directing the Wonderwerk Cave project (South Africa).
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Laboratory of Archaeozoology. She was also responsible in guiding and teaching the students with autistic fundamentals in archaeology.
Israeli association for people with disabilities. Inbal is a graduate of the University of Haifa
with a major in Special Education and Archaeology and a master’s degree in Law. Under her leadership ADL establishes new paradigm shifting initiatives and provides services to hundreds of teens and adults with disabilities each year. Avnei Derech La’Haim is a Special Consultative organization for the United Nations ECOSOC (since 2021).
experience within the field of Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Marissa works with autism in her own clinic and teaches the Autism course within the faculty of Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Haifa. Marissa manages the SPARC center at the University of Haifa, whose aim is to link research into community work within the field of Special Needs.
University of Haifa, Israel. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Haifa, Department of
Archaeology and has a BA and MA in archaeology, as well as an MA in conservation
archaeology from the University of Haifa.
University of Haifa, and head of the zooarchaeology branch at the Israel Antiquities Authority. Lee is a zooarchaeologist focusing on the eastern Mediterranean during the protohistoric and historic periods. Her main research interests pertain to the economy, cultural complexity, and human-environment interaction of ancient cultures through the study of animal remains.
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has participated in excavations led by different Israeli Universities. In 2009 Yonatan co-founded Emek Shaveh, an NGO working to prevent the exploitation of archaeology in the
context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has served as its’ executive director until the end of 2021. Yonatan is a research associate at the Forum for Regional Thinking (FORTH), focusing on the role of archaeology and cultural heritage sites in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how they are used to shape the national historic narrative.
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