Stories of the archaeologies of one small land, promised by the greatest twentieth-century Empire on earth to two peoples. They tell of the archaeology of the rulers, western and colonial, and of the three ‘local’ archaeologies, religious and nationalistic, which formed beside it.
See also Past Perfect? The Archaeologies of Mandate Palestine 1917–1948 (Peeters Publishers, 2026).
By Raz Kletter
Faculty of Theology
Docent for Near Eastern Archaeology
University of Helsinki
September 2026
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