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Contact:
Randolph
Fillmore
(813)
974-8476
Tampa,
FL (February 13, 2006) - Since
the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 in the Qumran caves
overlooking the Dead Sea, archaeology has gone high tech. Speakers
from the University of South Florida, the University of Hartford,
the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Penn State University,
will present “From the Cave of Letters to Qumran: Geoarchaeological
Research in the Holy Land” Feb. 22 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:45
p.m. in the Behavioral Sciences building (BEH) 104. The event is
sponsored by USF’s Departments of Anthropology, Geography
and Geology. The event is free and open to the public.
• Richard Freund, director of the Maurice
Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford,
will speak on his research in the “cave of letters,”
famous for artifacts - some of which may have been from the destroyed
Temple in Jerusalem - hidden in caves by Jews fleeing the Roman
army almost 2000 years ago in what is present day Israel.
• Harry Jol, associate professor of geography
at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, will speak on the technical
aspects of geophysical investigations in Israel.
• Philip Reeder, associate professor of geography
at USF, will speak on mapping the geoarchaeology of the Holy Land
by melding social, physical and natural sciences.
These presentations will be followed at 8:00 pm by a technical presentation
by William B. White, emeritus professor of geochemistry, Pennsylvania
State University, on “Sediments and Sedimentation in Limestone
Caves: Hydrology, Time Scales and Paleoclimate Archives.”
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