Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land (UNIV COL LONDON INST ARCH PUB)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1598743260 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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S. M. Wagoner said Digging on Dame Kathleen Kenyon. I have to admit that I approached Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land with trepidation. I am no Ph.D. and can't even rank myself as even a rank amateur in the field of archeology. Further, I feared I would be inundated with unknown jargon, unknowable theories and actors I had never heard of. Instead, Davis' book took me step by step into a useful and pertinent knowledge of Dame Kenyon - both who she was and wh. "great adventure" according to Dusk. If you want to travel to other lands (other than America) and to an earlier era, then this book is for you. It isn't written from a first or second person perspective, making the reading experience a little distant. But this actually helps create a sense of propriety and respect appropriate for the person of Kathleen Kenyon and the times she worked in. A careful reader will garner much more from the read than just a biog. "Five Stars" according to Susan O'Neill. Added to class info
Miriam Davis is Associate Professor of History at Delta State University in Mississippi. She has a Ph.D. In addition to her work on Kenyon, she is a specialist in health in Medieval England and has excavated in England, Scotland and the American Southeast. . in history from University of California Santa Barbara and has taught at Mississippi University for Women
" Miriam Davis has written a critical yet colorful biography of Dame Kathleen Kenyon, one of the legendary figures in the archaeology of the Holy Land. It is based on thorough research including both oral and written sources. This training allowed her to apply her knowledge to the excavation and study of foreign ancient sites in diverse locations that included southeast and North Africa, as well as the famous biblical sites at Samaria, Jericho, and Jerusalem, which produced many new and marvelous discoveries. A splendid accomplishment! As I read it, I could see Dame Kathleen in my mind’s eye. As time has passed, however, discussions of Kenyon and her impact have become almost one-dimensional caricatures, the gin-drinking delirious digger of precise, narrow stratigraphic
Davis provides a balanced and illuminating picture of both the public Dame Kenyon and the private person.. Dame Kathleen Kenyon has always been a larger-than-life figure, likely the most influential woman archaeologist of the 20th century. Her development (with Sir Mortimer Wheeler) of stratigraphic trenching methods has been universally emulated by archaeologists for over half a century. Her private lifeher childhood as daughter of the director of the British Museum, her accidental choice of a career in archaeology, her working at bom