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Tel Kabri: The 2013 Season

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Eric Cline mentioned this and I’m happy to pass it along:

Tel Kabri at the end of the 2013 excavation season. Photo: SkyView Photography, Ltd.

Tel Kabri at the end of the 2013 excavation season. Photo: SkyView Photography, Ltd.

The 2013 excavations at the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1750–1550 B.C.E.) Canaanite site of Tel Kabri uncovered architecture and artifacts from one of the largest palatial sites in Israel. I had the good fortune to be a member of the excavation team and wrote a series of blog posts about life on the dig mid-season. However, a view from the trenches is never complete, and the excavation directors recently released a preliminary report on the results of this summer’s fieldwork. The full “Preliminary Report on the Results of the 2013 Excavation Season at Tel Kabri,” written by excavation co-directors Assaf Yasur-Landau (University of Haifa) and Eric H. Cline (George Washington University), associate director Andrew Koh (Brandeis University), and area supervisors Nurith Goshen (University of Pennsylvania), Alexandra Ratzlaff (Boston University) and Inbal Samet (University of Haifa), is available as a free pdf download here.

There’s a good bit more for your enjoyment and enlightenment.  Take a gander.  And click on the photo to enlarge it.

Kabri 2013

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There’s a facebook page for the dig at Kabri which commences in just about a week.  Bookmark it and drop in from time to time to see plaster-fragswhat’s going on.  There’s also a blog.  So, you can be sure to know what’s happening at Eric Cline’s excavation (I’m sure there are others digging there too, but I know Eric).

We have a variety of objectives planned for the 2013 season, including finishing the excavation of the Orthostat Building, investigating the large area to the west of the palace (which may include a courtyard), and exploring the fortifications of the city. In order to achieve our goals we will necessarily do more than just excavation, including scientific studies onsite involving micro-morphology, zooarchaeology, residue analysis, and more.

Boy oh boy, to be there in person…

If You’re Looking for Something to do This Summer…

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Maybe this is for you:

Located in a quiet rural setting within the western Galilee of Israel, only a ten minute ride from the historical town of Acco, with its Medieval and Ottoman old city, fishing harbor and traditional market, and the modern resort town of Nahariya, the site of Tel Kabri has what may be the earliest-known Western art yet found in the Eastern Mediterranean. …

The 2013 season will continue to focus on the Middle Bronze Age palace. Previous excavations at the palace have exposed large quantities of painted plaster while documenting the building’s history from its humble beginnings to its destruction three centuries later.

It’s June 23-August 1.