Hazor Lower City
June 28 to July 17, 2020
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Hazor, the largest Canaanite city in ancient Israel.
Tel Hazor, the largest archaeological site in northern Israel, consists of an upper tell of 30 acres and a lower city of more than 175 acres. Our expedition is working in the lower city of Hazor, the largest Canaanite city in ancient Israel.
We are concentrating on Area K, where a large Bronze Age gate had been partly excavated in 1958 by Yigael Yadin.
The current expedition is excavating in the gate and around it, in order to understand how the entrance to the city was organized.
In front of the gate there are two monumental ramps leading from the valley to the city.
After the gate there is a large area of a gate piazza.
The expedition already worked at Area K 10 days during September 2019 and uncovered new data about the gate and its immediate vicinity.
In the summer of 2020 we will continue in Area K.
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Details
Geographic Location
Upper Galillee
Periods of Occupation
Late Bronze Age
Dates of the Dig
June 28 to July 17, 2020
Minimum Stay
2 weeks
Application Due
Thursday April 30, 2020
Academic Credit/Cost per Credit/Institution
3 Academic Credits are offered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem at a cost of $120/credit.
Accomodations
Accommodations will be in a nearby hostel, in a kibbutz. Volunteers will arrive to the kibbutz on Sunday morning by bus from Jerusalem. We will excavate on Sundays in the afternoon. The other days we will excavate in the mornings. On Friday morning there will be a bus taking the volunteers to Jerusalem.
Directors
Yosef Garfinkel
Head of the Institute of Archaeology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91905 Israel email: [email protected] phone: 972-2-5854591
Assaf Yasur-Landau
Associate Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa
Director, the Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey Lab, University of Haifa
Eric Cline
Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology
Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute
661 Rome Hall
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Contact
Professor Yosef Garfinkel
Institute of Archaeology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 91905
Israel
email: [email protected]
phone: 972-2-5854591