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<title>Kinneret Regional Project &#x2013; News Feed</title><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/index.html</link><description>Hot News about the Kinneret Regional Project</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2008 &#x2013; Kinneret Regional Project</dc:rights><dc:date>2008-04-21T23:11:57+02:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:58:49 +0300</lastBuildDate><item><title>Kinneret Meets Rome</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Lectures</category><dc:date>2008-04-21T23:11:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Staff member Juhana Saukkonen (UCL London) will present a lecture on the 2007 Season of the Kinneret Regional Project at the 6ICAANE in Rome on May 8th, 2008, 11:00-11:30 am.

6ICAANE is the sixth International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, which is this year hosted from May 5th to May 10th, 2008 by the La Sapienza &ndash; Università di Roma.  The aim of 6ICAANE is to promote cooperation and information exchange between archaeologists working in all fields and areas of the Ancient Near East, from the Eastern Mediterranean to Iran and from Anatolia to Arabia, from prehistoric times to Alexander the Great.

The congress venue is the Museo dell&rsquo;Arte Classica in the basement of the Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche, Piazzale A.  Moro 5.  &ndash; If you happen to be in the region you should not miss...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Online Registration Might Have Failed for Those Using Internet Explorer 6 (and Earlier)</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-04-19T21:12:50+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Due to a bug in Internet Explorer 6 (and earlier versions) for Windows, our online application system might have failed in some rare cases.  Therefore, if you applied during the last week using this internet browser, your application may not have come through.

In case you did not get an immediate (automated) answer by email after you registered and even more, if you did not get a confirmation that we processed your application, there is a high probability that we do not know about it.

We therefore ask you to apply again &ndash; either online (we found a workaround to fix it) or via the downloadable form.  We apologize for this inconvenience.  You might, however, consider using Firefox in order to avoid such problems in future.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Photo Archive Available&#x21;</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-04-13T17:11:25+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As some of you complained that the old picture gallery has been taken off the web, we uploaded again all images that were once available in the old gallery of this site.  The pictures are now in a better resolution and you may download them for your personal use.

However, access is restricted to the participants of the 2007 season.  If you follow this link you will be prompted for a user name and a password.  The user name is '2007' and the password is the name of the donkey that visited us quite often in the field last season (well......  Those who can't figure out the password may contact the 'Webmaster'.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>2008 Field Season Approaching...</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Fieldwork</category><dc:date>2008-04-09T17:27:31+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Registration for the coming field season of the Kinneret Regional Project was opened today.  We welcome students (and non-students) from all over the world to participate as team-members.  From July 6 to July 25 you will explore the fascinating world of ancient cultures on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee and bring back to life the stories of the past.

...This year, we will conduct a surface survey and soundings at Horvat Kur with remains from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods (3th c....  Furthermore, we intend to excavate (and conserve) the last remaining portion of a large domestic complex dating to the end of the Iron Age I (ca....  Work in the field will be accompanied by evening lectures and field trips on weekends.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Winter Activities of the Kinneret Regional Project</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Fieldwork</category><dc:date>2008-03-31T00:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Fieldwork started already early this year.  At the end of January and beginning February 2008, a small team of students headed by Prof. Dr. Michael Heinzelmann (Institute of Archaeology, University of Bern) conducted together with J&uuml;rgen Zangenberg, co-director of the Kinneret Regional Project, a geophysical prospection at Horvat Kur and Tel Kinrot at.  Currently, we are eagerly awaiting the results.

A few weeks later, Wolfgang Zwickel (project coordinator) visited Tel Kinrot and shot the image to the right.  The Tel is in good shape and the vegetation is flourishing.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Presentation at ASOR Annual Meeting</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Lectures</category><dc:date>2007-11-14T22:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2007#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2007#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Juha Pakkala, co-director of the Kinneret Regional Project, presents on behalf of the project at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools in San Diego.

...This is the published abstract: The paper reports on the recent results of archaeological investigations at Tel Kinrot/Tell el-Oreimeh (ancient Kinneret) and its environs undertaken by the Dutch-German-Finnish-Swiss &laquo;Kinneret Regional Project&raquo; under the auspices of the Universities of Bern, Helsinki, Leiden and Mainz.

Kinneret &ndash; located on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee (Israel) &ndash; is emerging as one of the major sites for the study of urban life in the Iron Age IB in the Southern Levant in the dawn of the first Millennium BCE.  Its material culture witnesses a lively and multilayered urban culture and shows a variety of cultural influences on the ancient population of the city.

Work concentrated in the past years on a large excavation field in the lower city with well-preserved Iron IB structures and installations.  The architecture of those areas, belonging to the main Iron Age IB phase at Tel Kinrot, was fully exposed and subsequently prepared for conservation.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sad News: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Fritz Passes Away on 21. August 2007</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Obituaries</category><dc:date>2007-08-22T09:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2007#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2007#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The results of that excavation became the central part of his Habilitation, which he earned from the University of Mainz in 1973, where he joined the faculty and was responsible for teaching Old Testament Studies.

...Volkmar was committed in his research to applying archaeological data to the German tradition of biblical analysis, and as a result he made a significant contribution not only to combining the two disciplines, but also to creating a greater understanding between German and Israeli archaeologists....  Together with his Israeli colleague, the late Prof. Aharon Kempinski, he directed the excavations at Tel Masos in the Negev from 1972- 1975, which made a major contribution to our understanding of the early history of ancient Israel.

...In 2003, he returned to Tel Kinrot for a visit (see picture; photographed by Editha Lafevre; &copy; Kinneret Regional Project), but he was already greatly weakened by the Parkinson&rsquo;s disease that had begun a few years previously.  Although he was unable to excavate again himself, he was happy in the knowledge that the work he had begun would go on in the hands of his former students from Switzerland, Germany and Finland, who are now responsible for the Kinneret Regional Project.

...To his credit, nearly all of his excavations have been fully published &ndash; like his reports on Kinneret: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen auf dem Tell el-Oreme am See Gennesaret, 1982-1985 and Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen auf der Hirbet el-M&scaron;a&scaron; (Tel Masos) 1972-1975 (co-authored with Prof. Kempinski).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>2006 Season Cancelled</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Fieldwork</category><dc:date>2006-08-11T12:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2006#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2006#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[At this time we would have proudly announced the 2006 field- and study-season of the German-Finnish-Swiss excavations at Tel Kinrot on the North-western shore of the Sea of Galilee, which was supposed to take place from August 6 to August 25, 2006.  24 volunteers and 22 staff-members originating from 10 different countries were curiously awaiting another exciting and enlightening dig.

All our plans, investments and hopes, however, did not materialize for obvious reasons and we had to cancel this year's expedition without substitution (the current situation does not even allow a small group of specialists working at the site).  Instead of that, we changed our publication plans and are now intensively working on the publication of Kinneret II, which is supposed to go to the printer before the next excavation season scheduled to take place in August/September 2007.  We hope that those of you working and/or living in the region are in safety.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The University of Mainz Publishes a Movie on Our Work at Tel Kinrot</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Movies</category><dc:date>2006-03-06T12:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2006#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2006#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The University of Mainz produces a movie about our work at Tel Kinrot (concept: Wolfgang Zwickel; camera: Markus Sauerwein; camera assistant: Ruth Scheerer; length: 20:01).  The movie documents the work of team-members and specialists during field work.  It is a real must for those in participating in the excavations.  The movie is downloadable at the University of Mainz homepage.

You may also &ndash; though in a lesser quality &ndash; view it here (Quicktime required).]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/podcast_2.mov" length="53444108" type="video/quicktime"/></item></channel>
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