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Politics and narratives: Islamic archaeology in Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Andrew Petersen
Andrew Petersen*
Affiliation:
Department of History and Archaeology, P.O. Box 17771, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates (Email: ammanextra@myrealbox.com, petersena@cardiff.ac.uk and Andrew.Petersen@uaeu.ac.ae)
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Abstract

The author considers the prospects of Islamic archaeology in one of the most politically sensitive places in the world.

Keywords

IsraelIslamic archaeologypolitics
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 306 , December 2005 , pp. 858 - 864
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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