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Kathleen Kenyon

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Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978), was a leading British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. [1]

76 relations: Alan Sorrell, All Souls College, Oxford, Ancient Near East, Archaeological theory, Archaeology, Archaeology of Israel, Baylor University, Bible, Biblical minimalism, Bloomsbury, Blue (university sport), British Museum, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, City of David, Council for British Research in the Levant, Dame, England, Erbistock, Evelyn Procter, Exhibition (scholarship), Fertile Crescent, Festival of Britain, Frederic G. Kenyon, Gertrude Caton Thompson, Grace Mary Crowfoot, Great Zimbabwe, Haaretz, Hammersmith, Jericho, Jerusalem, Jewry Wall, John Robert Kenyon, Kenyon Institute, Kursi, Golan Heights, Levant, Libya, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, London, Manchester Museum, Mandatory Palestine, Margery Fry, Master (college), Mortimer Wheeler, Near Eastern Archaeology (journal), Neolithic, Order of the British Empire, Oxford University Archaeological Society, Plastered human skulls, Principal (academia), Rachel Trickett, ..., Regent's Park, Roman Theatre, St Albans, Sabratha, Samaria, Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology, Somerville College, Oxford, Southwark, St Hugh's College, Oxford, St Paul's Girls' School, Tall al-Ajjul, Tel Megiddo, Tell Beit Mirsim, Temple Mount, Terra sigillata, Tessa Wheeler, The Illustrated London News, The Wrekin, UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, Verulamium, Waco, Texas, Wales, West Bank, Wheeler-Kenyon method, William F. Albright, Wrexham. Expand index (26 more) »

Alan Sorrell

Alan Ernest Sorrell (11 February 1904 – 21 December 1974) was an English artist and writer best remembered for his archaeological illustrations, particularly his detailed reconstructions of Roman Britain.

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All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College (official name: College of the souls of all the faithful departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Ancient Near East

The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran, northeastern Syria and Kuwait), ancient Egypt, ancient Iran (Elam, Media, Parthia and Persia), Anatolia/Asia Minor and Armenian Highlands (Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region, Armenia, northwestern Iran, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Jordan), Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula.

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Archaeological theory

Archaeological theory refers to the various intellectual frameworks through which archaeologists interpret archaeological data.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Archaeology of Israel

The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history.

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Baylor University

Baylor University (BU) is a private Christian university in Waco, Texas.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Biblical minimalism

Biblical minimalism, also known as the Copenhagen School because two of its most prominent figures taught at Copenhagen University, was a movement or trend in biblical scholarship that began in the 1990s with two main claims.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.

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Blue (university sport)

A blue is an award earned by athletes at a university and some schools for competition at the highest level.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research is one of three academic journals published by the American Schools of Oriental Research.

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City of David

The City of David (עיר דוד, Ir David; literal translation to مدينة داوود, Madina Dawud, common Arabic name: وادي حلوه, Wadi Hilweh) is an Israeli settlement and the archaeological site which is speculated to compose the original urban core of ancient Jerusalem.

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Council for British Research in the Levant

The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) is a non-profit organisation that promotes humanities and social science research in the Levant.

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Dame

Dame is an honorific title and the feminine form of address for the honour of knighthood in the British honours system and the systems of several other Commonwealth countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, with the masculine form of address being Sir.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Erbistock

Erbistock (Erbistog) is a village and a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales.

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Evelyn Procter

Evelyn Emma Stefanos Procter, FRHistS (6 June 1897 – 22 March 1980) was a British historian and academic.

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Exhibition (scholarship)

An exhibition is a type of scholarship award or bursary.

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Fertile Crescent

The Fertile Crescent (also known as the "cradle of civilization") is a crescent-shaped region where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Ancient Egypt flourished due to inundations from the surrounding Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers.

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Festival of Britain

The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951.

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Frederic G. Kenyon

Sir Frederic George Kenyon (15 January 1863 – 23 August 1952) was a British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar.

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Gertrude Caton Thompson

Gertrude Caton Thompson, FBA (1 February 1888 – 18 April 1985) was an influential English archaeologist at a time when participation by women in the discipline was uncommon.

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Grace Mary Crowfoot

Grace Mary Crowfoot (née Hood) (1879–1957) was a pioneer in the study of archaeological textiles.

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Great Zimbabwe

Great Zimbabwe is a medieval city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo.

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Haaretz

Haaretz (הארץ) (lit. "The Land ", originally Ḥadashot Ha'aretz – חדשות הארץ, – "News of the Land ") is an Israeli newspaper.

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Hammersmith

Hammersmith is a district of west London, England, located west-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Jericho

Jericho (יְרִיחוֹ; أريحا) is a city in the Palestinian Territories and is located near the Jordan River in the West Bank.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; القُدس) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jewry Wall

The Jewry Wall is a substantial ruined wall of 2nd-century Roman masonry, with two large archways, in Leicester, England.

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John Robert Kenyon

John Robert Kenyon (13 January 1807 at Pradoe, Shropshire – 17 April 1880 in Pradoe) was a British lawyer and academic.

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Kenyon Institute

The Kenyon Institute, previously known as the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (BSAJ), is a British research institute in Jerusalem.

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Kursi, Golan Heights

Kursi (Byzantine Greek Κυρσοί) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a Byzantine monastery and identified by tradition as the site of Jesus' "Miracle of the Swine".

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Libya

Libya (ليبيا), officially the State of Libya (دولة ليبيا), is a sovereign state in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.

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Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (5 October 1732 – 4 April 1802) was a British politician and barrister, who served as Attorney General, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manchester Museum

Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine (فلسطين; פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א"י), where "EY" indicates "Eretz Yisrael", Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Syria after World War I. British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948.

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Margery Fry

Sara Margery Fry (11 March 1874 – 21 April 1958) was a British prison reformer as well as one of the first women to become a magistrate.

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Master (college)

A Master (more generically called a Head of House or Head of College) is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university, principally in the United Kingdom.

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Mortimer Wheeler

Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.

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Near Eastern Archaeology (journal)

Near Eastern Archaeology is an American journal covering art, archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, and epigraphy of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds from the Palaeolithic through Ottoman periods.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Oxford University Archaeological Society

Oxford University Archaeological Society (OUAS) is a society at the University of Oxford which promotes matters of archaeological interest through lectures, excursions and fieldwork.

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Plastered human skulls

Plastered human skulls are reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 7000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period.

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Principal (academia)

The principal is the chief executive and the chief academic officer of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth.

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Rachel Trickett

Rachel Trickett (20 December 1923 – 24 June 1999) was an English novelist, non‑fiction writer, literary scholar, and a prominent British academic; she served as Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford for nearly twenty years, between 1973 and 1991.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Roman Theatre, St Albans

The Roman theatre at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England is an excavated site within the Roman walled city of Verulamium.

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Sabratha

Sabratha, Sabratah or Siburata (صبراتة), in the Zawiya District, accessed 20 July 2009, in Arabic of Libya, was the westernmost of the ancient "three cities" of Roman Tripolis.

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Samaria

Samaria (שֹׁמְרוֹן, Standard, Tiberian Šōmərôn; السامرة, – also known as, "Nablus Mountains") is a historical and biblical name used for the central region of ancient Land of Israel, also known as Palestine, bordered by Galilee to the north and Judaea to the south.

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Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology

The Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology are a series of lectures delivered and published under the auspices of the British Academy.

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Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Southwark

Southwark is a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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St Hugh's College, Oxford

St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

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St Paul's Girls' School

St Paul's Girls' School is an independent day school for girls, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in West London, England.

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Tall al-Ajjul

Tall al-Ajjul or Tell el-'Ajul is an archaeological mound or tell in the Gaza Strip.

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Tel Megiddo

Tel Megiddo (מגידו; مجیدو, Tell al-Mutesellim, "The Tell of the Governor") is an ancient city whose remains form a tell (archaeological mound), situated in northern Israel near Kibbutz Megiddo, about 30 km south-east of Haifa.

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Tell Beit Mirsim

Tell Beit Mirsim is an archaeological site in Israel, on the border between the Shfela and Mount Hebron.

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Temple Mount

The Temple Mount (הַר הַבַּיִת, Har HaBáyit, "Mount of the House "), known to Muslims as the Haram esh-Sharif (الحرم الشريف, al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf, "the Noble Sanctuary", or الحرم القدسي الشريف, al-Ḥaram al-Qudsī al-Šarīf, "the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem") and the Al Aqsa Compound is a hill located in the Old City of Jerusalem that for thousands of years has been venerated as a holy site, in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike.

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Terra sigillata

Terra sigillata is a term with at least three distinct meanings: as a description of medieval medicinal earth; in archaeology, as a general term for some of the fine red Ancient Roman pottery with glossy surface slips made in specific areas of the Roman Empire; and more recently, as a description of a contemporary studio pottery technique supposedly inspired by ancient pottery.

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Tessa Wheeler

Tessa Verney Wheeler (27 March 1893 – 15 April 1936) was an archaeologist who made a significant contribution to excavation techniques and contributed to the setting up of major British archaeological institutions after the Second World War.

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The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.

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The Wrekin

The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England.

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UCL Institute of Archaeology

The UCL Institute of Archaeology is an academic department of the Social & Historical Sciences Faculty of University College London (UCL), England which it joined in 1986.

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University College London

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Verulamium

Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.

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Waco, Texas

Waco is a city in central Texas and is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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West Bank

The West Bank (الضفة الغربية; הגדה המערבית, HaGadah HaMa'aravit) is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, the bulk of it now under Israeli control, or else under joint Israeli-Palestinian Authority control.

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Wheeler-Kenyon method

The Wheeler -Kenyon method is a method of archaeological excavation.

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William F. Albright

William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.

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Wrexham

Wrexham (Wrecsam) is the largest town in the north of Wales and an administrative, commercial, retail and educational centre.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Kenyon

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