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Herodian

http://www.jewishmag.com/93mag/herodian/herodian.htm

Brief article by Jay Levinson in The Jewish Magazine describes this fortified palace located 15 kilometers south of Yerushalayim. With photos.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology

http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/english/units.php?cat=815&amp;incat=0

Describes academic programs, staff, excavation, research projects, library and collections.

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From Archaeology to Archaeometry and Back

http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msjan/archaeom.html

Describes the work of Hebrew University professor Jan Gunneweg on the archaeology of Israel and the eastern Mediterranean.

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Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3826731.stm

Brief article from the BBC News about principal plant foods eaten by the people at Ohalo.

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Early Man Had Mining in Mind

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040517/040517-4.html

From Nature, an Israeli research team has caught our ancestors in the act of learning to mine raw materials for tools.

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Earliest Fire Sheds Light on Hominids

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040426/040426-16.html

Nature article on ancient hearths unearthed in Israel considered to be nearly 800 millennia old.

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Cave of the Warrior, Wadi el-Makkukh

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/cave/index.html

An exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History 1998: includes illustrated description of artifacts found.

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Beit She'arim: The Jewish Necropolis of the Roman Period

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Beit%20She-arim%20-%20The%20Jewish%20necropolis%20of%20the%20Roman

An illustrated description from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this town founded in the reign of King Herod, with its many tombs and catacombs.

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Archaeology at the Israel Museum

http://www.imj.org.il/eng/archaeology/index.html

This museum in Jerusalem provides online exhibitions and an illustrated catalog of its collections from prehistory until the thirteenth century.

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Archaeologists Uncover 12,000-year-old Settlement

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/01/1059480520876.html

Article from the Age reporting the discovery of a 12,000-year-old neolithic settlement west of Jerusalem.

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An Exploration in Early Pastoral Nomadism

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/Spr00/rosen.html

Details excavations at the Camel site and explores potentials for an archaeology of pastoralism.

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