And I hope the IAA are adamant about this. I worked as a grid
supervisor for the first five seasons at Ashkelon. Inevitably several
of the early seasons were taken up with exploratory probes which lasted
only one season and those areas will never be returned to. One was a
Byzantine church rebuilt in the Crusader period, with painted frecoes.
That was twenty years or more ago and none of those completed
excavations have been published. The excavations were supposedly well
endowed but little seems to have been dedicated to publication.
Excavations must have their own programme of publication, not hope to
rely on future PhD students to do it for them.

David Stacey

--- In ANE-2@yahoogroups.com, "funhistory" <yahoo-ane-2@...> wrote:
>
> In the March/April 2007 Archaeology magazine, Roger Atwood states
that
> Harvard professor Larry Stager has been denied a digging license for
> Ashkelon by the IAA because "the project has not published enough":
>
> http://www.archaeology.org/0703/abstracts/insider.html
>
> George Michael Grena, II
> Redondo Beach, CA
>