Title: Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932
Identifier: arthurfritzkahn_02_reel02 (find matches)
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Authors: Kahn, Arthur and Fritz
Subjects: Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history
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ancient Jericho, there was no suspicion that a prehistoric period lay beneath their spades. Their object was primarily to investigate the story of the capture üf Jericho by Joshua's people, to date that event and thereby to throw Hght on the date of the first IsraeHte settle- ment in Palestine. T^etween 1930 and 1936 the archae- ^-^ ologist John Garstang, of Liverpool Universitv. carried out a series of deeper and more^thorough excavations at Jeri- cho. Far down in the mound, beneath the debris of Early Bronze Age cities, he foiind some flints and building remains which showed that men had occupied the Site in the NeoHthic age. His discov- eries aroused in some archaeologists a keen desire to investigate the deep Jeri- cho levels further. The Second World War delayed this investigation. During the 20-year period between the two world wars Palestine in general had been the scene of much archaeological activity, principally by British and U. S. expeditions. Palestine is an area with a remarkably small writ- ten history, apart from the Bible. Very few ancient written records of the coun- try have survived, and its history has had to be built up piece by piece from the results of excavations. These have yielded a consecutive history of Palestine from very early times, which has been set down in books such as The Archae- olo^^l of Palestine^jind thp. Bihln^ hy WjlliiinrFT AlbrighTof The Johns Hop- kins Unjyei:«^i*^y _ After the long Interruption of World War II and the postwar political trou- bles in Palestine, archaeologists were keen to resume digging as soon as it be- came feasible. The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem sent me to Jordan in 1951 to investigate the possi- bilities. I found that the Jordan De- partment of Anti((uities was ready to welcome archaeologists and that the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, with which our school had collaborated closely in the past, also wished to undertake excavations again. We had no difficulty in choosing a site: Jericho offered an ideal opportunity. So in January, 1952^ a jointAnf^lo-Ameri- can expedition of some 2() workers, witl myselt as director and A. Douglas Tush- ingham of the American School as assis- tant director, camped at the Jericho teil and went to work. The ancient mound is a mile from the modern town of Jericho on the left bank of the River Jordan. It lies in a flat piain 840 feet below sea level. What
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V LATER NEOLITHIC houses had straight walls. Roth walle and floors were covered with polished plaster. However, ihe people wlio lived in the houses liad not invented pottery.

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