25past horizons As in past seasons, the Kfar HaHoresh expedition will hold a field school during the 2009 season. The field school provides an ideal opportunity to learn basic excavation and recording procedures, as well as preliminary analytical techniques, by participating in the archaeological excavation of a unique site. We welcome anyone with an interest in ancient Israel and in archaeology, especially beginning students, but also those with fieldwork experience who wish to advance their expertise. The field school is divided into two sessions, each of three weeks' duration. Participants will take part in the excavations and also play an active role in the preliminary analysis of recovered artefacts. Subjects include excavation, recovery and recording procedures, as well as field consolidation techniques. As part of the field school faculty members will give lectures on the prehistory and archaeology of the Near East and various specialist topics, and there will be field trips to other archaeological sites in the area. Enrolment in the field school is limited to 20 students for each session to enable individual supervision. The field crew, totalling 30 at most with specialists, includes students from Israel, Europe and the US. Students participating in the programme can receive up to four academic credits per session through the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University. Want to know more? Contact Ms. Michal Birkenfeld Institute of Archaeology, Department of Prehistory, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem michal. birkenfeld@ mail. huji. ac. il Excavating Kfar HaHoresh 2009 further reading GOREN Y., & GORING- MORRIS A. N., ' Early pyrotechnology in the Near East: experimental lime plaster production at the PPNB site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel', Geoarchaeology ( 2008) GORING- MORRIS, A. N., & HORWITZ L. K., ' Funerals and feasts in the Near Eastern Pre- Pottery Neolithic B', Antiquity ( 2007) ESHED, V., HERSHKOVITZ I., & GORING- MORRIS A. N., ' A re- evaluation of burial customs in the PPNB in light of paleodemographic analysis of the human remains from Kfar HaHoresh, Israel', Paléorient ( 2007) GORING- MORRIS, A. N., ' The quick and the dead: the social context of Aceramic Neolithic mortuary practices as seen from Kfar HaHoresh' in I. Kuijt ( ed.) Life in Neolithic Farming Communities, Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation ( New York, 2000) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers ' Kefar Ha- Horesh', in E. Stern ( ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land ( 2008) Vol. 5: 1907- 1909, Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society & Biblical Archaeology Society ' Life, death and the emergence of differential status in the Near Eastern Neolithic: Evidence from Kfar HaHoresh, Lower Galilee, Israel' in J. Clark ( ed.), Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean ( Oxford, 2005) CBRL & Oxbow Books time when humans discovered a new way of life, and when society, as we know it today, began to take shape. Nigel Goring- Morris is a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Michal Birkenfeld has worked at the Kfar HaHoresh site since 2002. Acknowledgements Excavations at Kfar HaHoresh have been funded by grants from the Irene Levi- Sala CARE Foundation, the National Geographic Society and the Israel Science Foundation.

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