Volume
70 no. 4
December 2007
Beekeeping at Iron Age Tel Rehov |
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ARTICLES NEA 70 #4
Forum: Open Context, Data Sharing, and Archaeology
by Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Eric C. Kansa, and Jason M. Schultz
It is the Land of Honey: Beekeeping at Tel Rehov
by Amihai Mazar and Nava Paniz-Cohen
Et-Tell is Not Bethsaida
by R. Steven Notley
DEPARTMENTS
REVIEWS
The Oldest Cuisine in the World
{Michael M. Homan)
Letters from the Desert: The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie
(Jeffrey A. Blakely)
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188 Forum:
Open Context, Data Sharing and Archaeology
Innovators in the area of open access, the contributors of this Forum discuss the benefits and challenges of data sharing in archaeology. Kansa, Kansa and Schultz open the dialogue with an appeal for Open Context, a free, open access resource for the electronic publication of primary field research from archaeology and related disciplines. Our respondents then consider issues such as copyright and fair use, the need to provide incentives for archaeologists to share their data, the best methods for achieving uniformity in data archiving and more.
202 It is the Land of Honey: Beekeeping at Tel Rehov
by Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen
The excavators of Tel Rehov, a part of the Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project, share a remarkable find from the 2007 season - an industrial beekeeping complex! Located in the middle of the unwalled Iron IIA period town, the hives (totalling possibly as many as 180) must have proved quite a nuisance to its inhabitants and may therefore be an indication of a strong central authority governing the town. Referencing Near Eastern documents as well as biblical sources, the authors explore the important economic, social, and political ramifications of this unique find for Israelite history.
220 Et-Tell is Not Bethsaida
by R. Steven Notley
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Bethsaida Excavations Project and its archaeological investigations at et-Tell north of the Sea of Galilee. The site has been assumed from the outset to be that of Bethsaida-Julias, the first-century fishing village where Jesus ministered. In this thought-provoking article, the author questions this identification, pointing out that the picture of Bethsaida-Julias presented in the historical sources is incongruous with the excavation results at et-Tell. Moreover, the details presented by those ancient authors who knew Bethsaida firsthand leave little doubt, according to the author, that et-Tell is not the site of ancient Bethsaida-Julias.
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