The best books to begin with are Neil Ascher Silberman's Digging For God
and Country:  Exploration in the Holy Land, 1799-1917 (Anchor Books, 1982)
and Between Past and Present:  Archaeology, Ideology, and Nationalism in
the Modern Middle East (Anchor Books, 1989).
 
Good reading!
 
MCB
 
 
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Mary C. Beaudry
Editor, Northeast Historical Archaeology
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Archaeology
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
 
tel. 617-353-3415
fax. 617-353-6800
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