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Abstract
In this article, the authors present two points of view on the preservation and dissemination of archaeological data in Israel: an official version of the policy makers (the Israel Antiquities Authority, henceforth IAA), and the view from the archaeological, especially academic, community outside the IAA. This includes an assessment of the strategies undertaken (or not) over the last 40+ years resulting in the majority of data being inaccessible, and documenting significant data loss since the 1990s. This is followed by current work to address these issues, including not only efforts to digitise but misconceptions about the problems digitisation both solves and creates, along with recommendations for how to approach the issues going forward.
Highlights
As in many other Near Eastern counties that suffered from heavy looting of antiquities in the 18th and 19th centuries, archaeology in Israel is regulated at the state level in accordance with an Antiquities Law, which is a successor to the Ottoman Antiquities Law of 1884 and is based on the regulations regarding antiquities declared by the British Mandate in 1918 and 1933-35
Preference is given to endangered sites and to salvage excavations. These are mainly conducted by the IAA, in recent years by accredited private Cultural Resource Management (CRM) companies affiliated with the archaeological departments of the local universities
A research-orientated excavation licence can be granted to a faculty member of an academic institution,2 who holds at least an MA degree in archaeology and can prove sufficient field experience in Near Eastern archaeology
Summary
The authors present two points of view on the preservation and dissemination of archaeological data in Israel: an official version of the policy makers (the Israel Antiquities Authority, IAA), and the view from the archaeological, especially academic, community outside the IAA. This includes an assessment of the strategies undertaken (or not) over the last 40+ years resulting in the majority of data being inaccessible, and documenting significant data loss since the 1990s.
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