Visitors may have noticed that a new section entitled ‘Presentations’ has been added to this website. There you not only find a list of past presentations and lectures we gave around the globe, but you may also have a sneak peek at a sample paper that was delivered recently at a professional conference (this part will only be updated sporadically since we don’t want to shoot our wad in advance...). Consider it as the field report on the 2008 field season!

In view of the image to the right, we would like to ask all visitors of Tel Kinrot to be very vigilant when visiting the site. We invested a lot to protect the now beautifully conserved «Field I» from unwanted guests, especially donkeys. These long-eared fellows love the shades of the high-standing walls and the soft and clean dust covering the floors. But - alas - they heavily damage the ruins. So please: close the gates to the excavation field after entering and leaving the site!

...and we’ll do our very best, Miss Sophie... – The directors of the Kinneret Regional Project will report on the results of the 2008 season at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, which will take place from Wednesday, 19 November until Saturday 22 November at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston/USA. The title of our paper is “Kinneret Regional Project—The 2008 Field Season” and the session we’re in is scheduled for Saturday 22, from 4:15-6:15 pm (for the academic program of this congress click here).
Additionally, we will present our project during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in a session called “Archaeological Excavations and Discoveries: Illuminating the Biblical World” (SBL23-5) with a paper “Kinneret: A Nonbiblical City in the Land of the Bible” scheduled for Sunday November 23, 2008, 9:00-9:35 am (for an abstract click here and search for ‘Kinneret’). Both papers will be presented by Stefan Münger. – We would be happy to meet you there, if you are in the area (BTW: if you did not get the title of this post, click on the picture...!)

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 – 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’Arte Classica in the basement of the Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche, Piazzale A. Moro 5. – If you happen to be in the region you should not miss...

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. The title of the lecture is “Kinneret Regional Project – The 2007 Field Season.”
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 «Kinneret Regional Project» under the auspices of the Universities of Bern, Helsinki, Leiden and Mainz.
Kinneret – located on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee (Israel) – 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. The paper also presents the most recent finds, the results of current research programs and future developments within the «Kinneret Regional Project».