Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Archaeology and the 1948 War
- 2 Abandoned places, new places
- 3 Foreign aid
- 4 Frozen funds
- 5 A battalion of guards
- 6 Relief work
- 7 Man robs his land: “agreement” with General Dayan
- 8 “Gold of Ophir for Beth-Horon”: 3,000 shekels
- 9 The building beyond the border: the PAM, 1948–67
- 10 A building of dreams: a home for the IDAM and the origins of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 11 A dead man on the council: the story of the supreme archaeological body in Israel
- 12 “But trust comes from the heart”: travels with the Government Tourist Corporation
- 13 “Whether in a courtyard of a synagogue, in a courtyard adjacent to a synagogue, or under a synagogue”: the Safad affair
- 14 The policy of salvage and early Israeli excavations
- 15 Myths and conclusions
- Appendix: other documents from the IDAM files
- Bibliography
- Author index
- Index
Appendix: other documents from the IDAM files
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Archaeology and the 1948 War
- 2 Abandoned places, new places
- 3 Foreign aid
- 4 Frozen funds
- 5 A battalion of guards
- 6 Relief work
- 7 Man robs his land: “agreement” with General Dayan
- 8 “Gold of Ophir for Beth-Horon”: 3,000 shekels
- 9 The building beyond the border: the PAM, 1948–67
- 10 A building of dreams: a home for the IDAM and the origins of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 11 A dead man on the council: the story of the supreme archaeological body in Israel
- 12 “But trust comes from the heart”: travels with the Government Tourist Corporation
- 13 “Whether in a courtyard of a synagogue, in a courtyard adjacent to a synagogue, or under a synagogue”: the Safad affair
- 14 The policy of salvage and early Israeli excavations
- 15 Myths and conclusions
- Appendix: other documents from the IDAM files
- Bibliography
- Author index
- Index
Summary
A “DINOSAUR” IN TEL AVIV?
The following memorandum was headed “Finding a bone of a large mammal”:
Following a verbal notice given by Mrs Yeivin about a huge bone, maybe of a prehistoric animal, lying in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa road; and a verbal communication from Mr Handler about the same matter, we visited the place on Friday noon (members Handler, Yeivin, [Pinkas] Linder [then head of the Department of Public Works], Pinkerfeld). Military policeman R. informed us that he had collected the bone from a heap of rubbish in the middle of the street (near house no. 11, south of the entrance to the German Colony in Jaffa). After investigation of a nearby shop owner, it was discovered that the bone was found in this shop when it was given to her by the Committee for Refugee Housing in Jaffa. One has to clarify to whom the shop belonged earlier; maybe the Unit of Agriculture?
[Addition] 24.8.48. On Tuesday morning (9:30) the bone was brought to the Measuring House [the office of the IDAM at that time] to storage no. 4 (with objects that belong to the Post Office unit).
[signed] S. Yeivin (GL44880/18 no. 1)There was similar news in Tel Aviv in 2005:
“We have found a dinosaur!”, cried an IAA archaeologist from one of the pits of the excavation … The excavator, Dr Edwin van den-Brink hastened to correct [that declaration] with sorrow [saying] that it was the bones of a hippopotamus from 6000 years ago.
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- Just Past?The Making of Israeli Archaeology, pp. 321 - 332Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2006