Field School Syllabus | Field School Assignments | Field School Schedule Field School Schedule All lectures and field trips are organized with our volunteer staff in mind. Below you will find a typical lecture schedule, including previous topics and lecturers. A final field school schedule will be available in the spring prior to the excavation. Names of lecturers not marked with an asterisk are members of the The Zeitah Excavations professional staff. Typical Lectures and Field Trips Day Topic/Trip Speaker/Leader   Sunday Orientation to Tel Zayit Ron E. Tappy Monday The Archaeology of Jerusalem Gabriel Barkay Wednesday Techniques of Pottery Analysis Barbara L. Johnson Monday A New Look at Beth-Shemesh Zvi Lederman*       Tuesday Tel Miqne and the Philistines Trude Dothan* Wednesday Field Trip #1: Preliminary Seminar Brian Schultz Thursday The Archaeology of Israel William G. Dever* Sat-Sunday Galilee Field Trip Brian Schultz Monday The Negev: Archaeology and History Eliezer Oren*     Tuesday Field Trip #2: Preliminary Seminar Brian Schultz Thursday The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon Lawrence E. Stager* Sat-Sunday Negev Field Trip Brian Schultz   Monday Tel Miqne and the Assyrians Seymour Gitin* Tuesday Archaeozoology Audrey Goodman Wednesday Archaeological Conservation Catherine Magee   Monday Archaeological Computing John Rodkey Tuesday Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls Hanan Eschel*       Wednesday The 2000 Season at Tel Zayit Ron E. Tappy Thursday End-of-Season Party (Program Leaders)   Some Previous Guest Speakers Zvi Lederman is a professor of the archaeology of Israel and co-directs the current excavations at Tel Beth-Shemesh. Trude Dothan, of the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, co-directed the excavations at Tel Miqne/Ekron. William Dever is professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He directed the excavations at Gezer. Steve Lancaster has served as a lecturer in the biblical geography of Israel and a field trip guide for Jerusalem University College for the past seven years. Eliezer Oren is Professor of Archaeology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba. He directed the excavations at Tel Haror/Gerar and multiple sites along the north Sinai coast. Lawrence Stager is Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel at Harvard University and directs The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon. Seymour Gitin is Director of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. He co-directed the excavations at Tel Miqne/Ekron. Hanan Eshel is a professor of historical geography at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv and at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is an expert in Qumran studies and the Samaria Ostraca. Back To Top