Excavation of Tell es-Sultan (Jericho) Excavation of Jewry Wall Wheeler-Kenyon method
Academic background
Education
St Paul's Girls' School
Alma mater
Somerville College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline
Archaeology
Sub-discipline
Neolithic Ancient Near East Archaeological theory
Institutions
Institute of Archaeology St Hugh's College, Oxford
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE, FBA, FSA (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent.[1] She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century.[2] She was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1962 to 1973, having undertaken her own studies at Somerville College, Oxford.
^"Dame Kathleen Kenyon". Britannica.com. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
^Davis, Miram. C. (2008), Digging Up the Holy Land, 11.
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE, FBA, FSA (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She...
Extensive investigations using more modern techniques were made by KathleenKenyon between 1952 and 1958. Lorenzo Nigro and Nicolò Marchetti conducted...
around 1400 BC. KathleenKenyon discovered the tower built against the wall inside the town during excavations between 1952 and 1958. Kenyon provided evidence...
of a network of collapsed walls which he dated to about 1400 BCE. KathleenKenyon re-excavated the site over 1952–1958 and demonstrated that the destruction...
vessels were hand-built, often by means of coiling, and pit fired. Dame KathleenKenyon was the principal archaeologist at Tell es-Sultan (ancient Jericho)...
findings at Knossos for the period c. 2800 BC to c. 1050 BC. Dame KathleenKenyon was the principal archaeologist at Tell es-Sultan (ancient Jericho)...
grid system of excavation, which was further improved by his student KathleenKenyon. Archaeology became a professional activity in the first half of the...
Israel is that the Millo is the Stepped Stone Structure uncovered by KathleenKenyon and demonstrated by Eilat Mazar to be connected to a Large Stone Structure...
"ramp" and believed it to be Jebusite. Work continued in the 1960s with KathleenKenyon, who dated the structure to the start of Iron Age II (1000–900 BCE)...
active 1990–present Genres Observational comedy, blue comedy Spouse KathleenKenyon[citation needed] Notable works and roles That Peter Kay Thing (2000)...
agricultural settlement with some eight to ten acres within its walls. KathleenKenyon reckoned that it was home to about three thousand people. Construction...
director from 1946 to 1957, but there were many others, including KathleenKenyon, excavator of Jericho, initially secretary then the institute's acting...
Research in the Levant (CBRL) and in 2001 was renamed the Kenyon Institute, after KathleenKenyon, to reflect the wider range of disciplines supported by...
system of excavation, which was further improved on by his student KathleenKenyon. The two constant themes in their attempts to improve archaeological...
Dorset with Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s and at Jericho with Dame KathleenKenyon in the 1950s. She authored books about archaeology for a general audience...
plastered skulls from Jericho were discovered by the British archaeologist KathleenKenyon in the 1950s and can now be found in the collections of the British...
Jericho, but later revised the destruction to a much earlier period. KathleenKenyon dated the destruction of the walled city to the middle of the 16th...
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