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Article: Recent Excavations in Israel: A View to the West; Reports on Kabri, Nami, Miqne-Ekron, Dor, and Ashkelon.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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This very timely volume contains most of the papers originally presented in a colloquium at the 1992 annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. The one-page preface by Gitin is no substitute for an editorial overview, which would have helped greatly to set these papers in the desired context of increased communication and exchange between scholars involved in the archaeology of the Levant and the Aegean. Nor does the concluding, very basic overview of trade by W. Dever really come to grips with any current theoretical thinking on trade, which it purports to do. Moreover, Dever's idiosyncratic and often opinionated views about Levantine archaeology are ...