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Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the

Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem

This volume is a critical study of recent archaeology in the Western Wall Plaza

area, Jerusalem. Considered one of the holiest places on Earth for Jews and

Muslims, it is also a place of controversy, where the State marks ‘our’ remains

for preservation and adoration and ‘theirs’ for silencing.

Based on thousands of documents from the Israel Antiquities Authority

and other sources, such as protocols of planning committees, readers can

explore for the first time this archaeological ‘heart of darkness’ in East

Jerusalem. The book follows a series of unique discoveries, reviewing the

approval and execution of development plans and excavations, and the use of

the sites once excavation has finished. Who decides what and how to excavate,

what to preserve – or ‘remove’? Who pays for the archaeology, for what aims?

The professional, scientific archaeology of the past happens now: it modifies

the present and is modified by it. This book ‘excavates’ the archaeology of

East Jerusalem to reveal its social and political contexts, power structures and

ethics.

Readers interested in the history, archaeology and politics of the Israeli–

Palestinian conflict will find this book useful, as well as scholars and students

of the history and ethics of archaeology, Jerusalem, conservation, nation-

alism and heritage.

Raz Kletter

completed his PhD in 1995 at Tel Aviv University, Israel, on

material culture and borders of Iron Age Judah. Following a post-doctoral

year at the University of Oxford, UK, he worked in the Israel Antiquities

Authority as Deputy of Finds Department, Senior Archaeologist and

Head of the Scientific Processing Unit. Dr. Kletter participated, directed

and published excavations from varied periods and sites in Israel/Palestine.

Since 2008 he is Docent for Near-Eastern Archaeology at the University of

Helsinki, Finland, and member of the Centres of Excellence ‘Changes in

Sacred texts and Traditions’ (CSTT) and ‘Ancient Near Eastern Empires’

(ANEE). Dr. Kletter’s main fields of study are Near-Eastern Archaeology

(Bronze and Iron Ages), religion and cult, ancient economy, archaeological

theory and history of archaeology in Israel/Palestine. He has published exten-

sively in these fields.

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Denmark, and Emanuel Pfoh, National Research Council,

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Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem

Darkness at the End of the Tunnel

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Archaeology, Heritage and

Ethics in the Western Wall

Plaza, Jerusalem

Darkness at the End of the Tunnel

Raz Kletter

First published 2020

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kletter, Raz, author.

Title: Archaeology, heritage and ethics in the Western Wall Plaza,

Jerusalem : darkness at the end of the tunnel / Raz Kletter.

Description: First edition. | New York : Routledge, [2019] |

Series: Copenhagen international seminar |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019016898 (print) | LCCN 2019017777 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780429031311 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429633461 (web pdf) |

ISBN 9780429630484 (mobi/kindle) | ISBN 9780429631979 (epub) |

ISBN 9780367143350 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Excavations (Archaeology)–West Bank. |

Excavations (Archaeology)–Jerusalem.

Classification: LCC DS110.W47 (ebook) |

LCC DS110.W47 K64 2019 (print) | DDC 956.94/42–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019016898

ISBN: 978-0-367-14335-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-03131-1 (ebk)

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