Excavating in the State of Israel

From the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 to the great excavations of the second half of the twentieth century, archaeology entered another extraordinary chapter. New Israeli institutions and a new generation of archaeologists emerged, while leading international scholars continued to transform the archaeology of sites such as Jericho and Jerusalem. What happens when a young state begins to excavate its own past? How did spectacular discoveries become intertwined with questions of history, identity, and the biblical narrative? And how have new methods and new generations of archaeologists continued to challenge, and sometimes overturn, the conclusions of those who came before them? 

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