Book
Digging up Jericho: the results of the Jericho excavations, 1952-1956
Praeger • New York • Published In 1957 • Pages: 272 , plates
By: Kenyon, Kathleen M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Kenyon excavated in several different areas on the tell site of Jericho, reaching Pre-Pottery Neolithic levels in 'sites D1 and F1.' She found the town had been walled since Pre-Pottery Neolithic times and believed the wall and tower were built for defensive purposes. More recently, other authors have viewed the wall as being built for flood control measures. The site is one of the earliest towns in the world and has evidence of sophisticated community organization (the walls and tower). Kenyon describes the excavations and set up, the problems with the stratigraphy and post-depositional processes, and her findings, most of which were walls, and the human remains.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Research methods
- Military installations
- Structures
- Mourning
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aceramic Neolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic; 8800 BP-7850 BP (6800 BC-5850 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Jericho, Palestinian Autonomous Areas
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kathleen M. Kenyon
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57012697
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jericho