Digging Up Jericho

Bill Finlayson is Professor of Prehistoric Environment and Society in the Human Origins and Palaeoenvironments Research Group at Oxford Brookes University and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading.Rachael Sparks is Associate Professor and Keeper of the Institute of Archaeology’s Collections at University College London.Bart Wagemakers is a lecturer in Ancient and Religious History at the Institute Archimedes at the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht.Josef Mario Briffa SJ is a lecturer at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and a Roman Catholic priest.

• Preface: Digging up Jericho – Bill Finlayson ; Part I – Past ; The Jericho Excavations in Historical Context ; Jericho in the Collections of the Palestine Exploration Fund – Felicity Cobbing ; Jericho in the Media – Rachael Thyrza Sparks ; The Photographic Methodology of Kenyon’s Jericho – Stuart Laidlaw ; Jericho Syndromes: ‘Digging Up Jericho’ as Ritual Dramas of Possession – Beverley Butler ; Square Pegs in Round Holes – John Carswell ; The Impact of Kenyon’s Excavations at Tell es-Sultan on Dutch Archaeology in the Near East – Bart Wagemakers ; Reconsidering Results from Past Excavations ; Finding and Losing the Person Within: A Neolithic Plastered Skull from Jericho – Alexandra Fletcher ; Kenyon, Jericho and the Amorites – Kay Prag ; Metal Weapons and Social Differentiation at Bronze Age Tell es-Sultan – Daria Montanari ; Jericho Tomb P23 in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities – Christine Erkelens and Lucas Petit ; A New Umayyad Mosque at Khirbet el-Mafjar, and other Discoveries: A New Understanding through Architectural Stratigraphy and Landscape Archaeology – Ignacio Arce ; Part II – Present ; Current Fieldwork ; The Italian-Palestinian Expedition to Tell es-Sultan, Ancient Jericho (1997–2015): Archaeology and Valorisation of Material and Immaterial Heritage – Lorenzo Nigro ; Mudbricks and Modular Architecture at Tell es-Sultan from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age – Gaia Ripepi ; Protecting the People: The Fortification Systems of Middle Bronze Age Jericho in Light of the Italian-Palestinian Excavations – Chiara Fiaccavento and Elisabetta Gallo ; The Jericho Mafjar Project: Palestine-University of Chicago Research at Khirbet el-Mafjar – Donald Whitcomb ; Cities and Palaces: Khirbet el-Mafjar and the Evolution of Settlements on the Jericho Plain – Michael Jennings ; Two Decades of Archaeology in Jericho, 1994–2015 – Hamdan Taha ; Part III – Future ; Preserving the Archaeological Past for the Future ; Neolithic Heritage, Jericho and the West Bank – Bill Finlayson and Paul Burtenshaw ; The Hisham’s Palace Site and Museum Project – Jack Green ;