Should we be blogging about finds?

Discuss the use of social media in recent excavations with reference to your experience at the site of Azekah and the wider politics of presenting heritage in Israel. Unfortunately there is very little published material on this question specifically. If you are interested in this question I would recommend one of the essays on public archaeology below. For your information you can follow the conference details below to be released in November that discuss this topic: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20120522

Should we be excavating bodies? Using recent political, ethical and theoretical discussions critically evaluate the importance of excavating human remains in Israel. For general issues: Jenkins, T., Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority (Taylor and Francis, 2011) Einhorn, T., Israeli Law, Jewish Law and the Archaeological Excavation of Tombs in International Journal of Cultural Property Vol. 6, Iss. 01 (1997) pp 47-80 Walker, P., Bioarchaeological Ethics: A Historical Perspective on the Values of Human Remains .(Eds) M. A., Katzenberg and Shelley R. Saunders, Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton, 2nd Edition ( John Wiley & Sons. Inc., 2008) Marquez-Grant and Fibiger, L., The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation (Taylor and Francis, 2011) Sayer, D., Ethics and Burial Archaeology (Debates in Archaeology) (Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2010)

Was Azekah Israelite during the Late Iron Age? Kletter, R. Pots and Polities: Material Remains of Late Iron Age Judah in Relation to Its Political Borders in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 314 (1999) pp.19-54 Naaman, N., Khirbet Qeiyafa in Context in Ugarit-Forschungen Vol. 42 (2011) pp.499-526 Finkelstein, I. and Fantalkin, A., Khirbet Qeiyafa: An Unsensational Archaeological and Historical Interpretation in Tel Aviv Vol. 39, (Maney, 2012) pp.38-63 N.A. Silberman and D. Small (eds.) The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present (Sheffield, 1997) Thompson, T., Defining History and Ethnicity in the South Levant in L. Grabbe Can a History of Israel be written? (T&T Clark, 1997) pp.166-187

Are we doing biblical archaeology? Define and assess recent discussions of the term biblical archaeology. Hoffmeier, J. K. and Millard, A. R. (eds.), The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions, (Eerdmans Publishing, 2004) W. Dever, The Impact of the New Archaeoogy on Syro-Palestinian Archaeology in Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 242 (1981) pp.15-29 N. Silberman (ed.), The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present (Sheffield, 1997) Evaluate the impact of recent scientific analysis (e.g. C14, GPR and Thermoluminescence) in the reconstruction of Israels history using your experience at Azekah as one example. T. E. Levy and T. Higham The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating (Equinox, 2005) I. Finkelstein and E. Piasetzky, Khirbet Qeiyafa: Absolute Chronology in Tel Aviv Vol.37, 2010 pp.8488 A. Mazar, Archaeology and the Biblical Narrative: The case of the United Monarchy in R. G. Kratz and H. Spieckermann One God One Cult One Nation: Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives (Walter de Gruyter, 2010) How should Azekah be protected for current and future generations? Discuss with reference to methods of preservation and presentation of heritage sites and artefacts in Israel. U. Baram, Appropriating the past: heritage, tourism, and archaeology in Israel In: Kohl, P. L., M. Kozelsky and N. Ben Yehuda (eds), Selective remembrances: archaeology in the construction, commemoration, and consecration of national pasts. (University of Chicago Press, 2007) pp.299325. C. Cumberpatch and P. Blinkhorn , Clients, contractors, curators and archaeology: who owns the past? In: Pluciennik, M. (ed), The Responsiblities of Archaeologists. BAR Int. Ser. 981. (Oxford, 2001) pp. 3945. M. Turner, The Shared Cultural Significance of Jerusalem. In: M. Agua et al. (eds), Divided Cities in Transition; Challenges Facing Jerusalem and Berlin. (Jerusalem, 2005) pp. 123143. A. Gopher, R. Greenberg, Z. Herzog. Archaeological Public Policy. In D. Korn ed. Public Policy in Israel. (Lanham MD, 2002) pp. 191-203 Is there a bias towards the 'biblical periods' in recent excavations in the Holy Land? Assess using Azekah as an example. N.A. Silberman and D. Small (eds.) The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present (Sheffield, 1997) Kletter Raz, Just Past? The Making of Israeli Archaeology (Equinox, 2006) D. Ilan and Y. Gadot, 'Undermining the Edifice of Ethnocentric Historical Narrative in Israel with Community-Based Archaeology' in Boytner, R. (et al, eds.), Controlling the Past, Owning the Future: The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East (University of Arizona Press, 2010) pp.103-122

O. Bar-Yosef and A. Mazar, Israeli Archaeology in World Archaeology Vol. 13 No. 3 (1982) pp.310325 A. Petersen, Politics and narratives :Islamic archaeology in Israel in Anitquity Vol. 79 No. 306 (2005) pp. 858-864