"A Land of Milk and Honey": the excavation and scientific research of the unique apiary at Tel Rehov, Israel
A Public Seminar to be given by
Professor Amihai Mazar
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amihai Mazar is one of Israel’s pre-eminent archaeologists. He held the Eleazar Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1994 until his retirement in 2010. His special area of research is the archaeology of the Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages, and he received the Israel Prize for Archaeology in 2009.
He is in Australia as the 2011 Anthony McNicol Visiting Lecturer at Sydney University.
Tel Rehov, the largest site in the Jordan Valley, features Iron Age housing units, the world’s first known apiary, and evidence for trade and foreign contacts that link Rehov to all the great centres of the Biblical world. The lecture will describe the scientific analysis of the apiary and comment on the implications for 10th century chronology in the southern Levant.
Professor Mazar has directed archaeological excavations at a number of sites in Israel that include:
- Tel Qasile
- Timnah (Tel Batash) - from 1977–1989
- Bet She'an - from 1989–1996
- Rehov (Tel Rehov) - from 1997 onwards (ongoing)
Mazar is a widely-recognised author in the field of Biblical Archaeology, his Archaeology of the Land of the Bible is a standard text in many universities worldwide.
Mazar is married with three children and resides in Jerusalem. He is the nephew of Benjamin Mazar, one of the first generation of pioneering Israeli archaeologists after Independence, and cousin to fellow archaeologist Eilat Mazar.
Saturday 17 September 2011
3:00 - 5:00pm at the
Australian Institute of Archaeology, Terrace Way, Macleod.
Contact:
Christopher Davey
Mob: 0421 595 966 |
