The NPAPH Tell es-Sultan Archive contains images relating to the Second British Expedition to Tell es-Sultan, conducted by Kathleen Kenyon from 1952 till 1958. The photographs and slides were made by Leo Boer (student of the École Biblique in Jerusalem), Th. C. Vriezen (Old Testament Professor at Utrecht University), David Spurgeon (reporter of the Toronto Globe and Mail), and A. Douglas Tushingham who acted as the Assistant Director in 1952-1953 and 1956.
Tell es-Sultan and Jericho seen from Qarantal (5 Jan 1954; ID: cBoerpSultan8.6; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Leo Boer)Jericho seen from Galgala (5 Jan 1954; ID: cBoerpSultan8.5; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Leo Boer)Herodion Jericho (10th March 1954; ID: cBoerpSultan11.13; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Leo Boer)Skeleton at Tell es-Sultan (10th March 1954; ID: cBoerpSultan11.13; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Leo Boer)Refugee camp seen from Tell es-Sultan (5 Jan 1954; ID: cBoerpSultan8.8; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Leo Boer)The Joint British-Canadian Archeological Expedition at the ancient site of Jericho in Jordan. From top of tell (mound), looking north, mud village (Ein Es Sultan) of Arab refugees stretches away to mountains. These mud huts and walls are quite like those found in the tell and some of the ancient cities must have looked like this. The Canadian section of the expedition is being sponsored by The Globe and Mail. Originally published Feb. 22, 1956, page A15 (22 Feb. 1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan8; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)The Joint British-Canadian Archeological Expedition at work on the ancient site of Jericho in Jordan, February 1956. Elisha’s Fountain at the excavation camp is a popular place. The women from the nearby refugee camps carry jars of water on their heads in the age-old fashion but the United Nations Relief and Works Administration truck lends a more modern note. And the camel seen on the road at rear has his own method of getting drink. The Canadian section of the expedition was sponsored by The Globe and Mail (21th March 1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan9; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)The Joint British-Canadian Archeological Expedition at work on the ancient site of Jericho in Jordan. Crumbling steps lead down into the deepest ditch in the Jericho mound where diggers are cutting through layer upon layer of ancient remains to bedrock. The Canadian section of the expedition is being sponsored by The Globe and Mail. Originally published Feb. 17, 1956, page A17
(17th Feb 1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan6; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)Arab workmen (feb 1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan4; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)Staircase to the top of the old town of Jericho (Feb 1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan2; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)The Joint British-Canadian Archeological Expedition at work on the ancient site of Jericho in Jordan. Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham, head of the Canadian party, points out stratification to Prue Oliver, a U.S. student from the Institute of Archeology, London. The Canadian section of the expedition is being sponsored by The Globe and Mail. Originally published Feb. 17, 1956, page A17. NB: pen markings are visible on face and figure of individuals (17th Feb 1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan7; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)The Joint British-Canadian Archeological Expedition at work on the ancient site of Jericho in Jordan. Bill Power of Toronto and his workman Muhammed clean 7,000-year-old skeleton before dig photographer makes permanent record of its position. Skeleton was found during excavation of pre-pottery neolithic level of the Jericho mound. The Canadian section of the expedition was by The Globe and Mail. Originally published Feb. 22 1956, page A15
(22 Feb. 1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan5; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)The Joint British-Canadian Archeological Expedition at work on the ancient site of Jericho in Jordan. Human remains found at Jericho by the team: surgeons cut through this skull four times in 2100 B.C. The patient survived long enough for the first hole to be almost completely healed over. The Canadian section of the expedition was sponsored by The Globe and Mail. Originally published March 21, 1959, Globe Magazine, page 10
(Feb 1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan1; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)Walking down the hill (1956; ID: cSpurgeonpSultan3; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: David Spurgeon)Jericho (6th May 1954; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF54.237; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Refugee camp ‘al-Nuwaymah’ (1954; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF54.198; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Trench I (1954; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF54.98; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Neolithic tower and dwellings at Tell es-Sultan (1957; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF57.139; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Neolithic tower at Tell es-Sultan (1957; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF57.126; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Eldest dwelling at Tell es-Sultan (1957; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF57.80; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Trench I at Tell es-Sultan (1957; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF57.50; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Tell es-Sultan (1957; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF57.49; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Trench I (1954; ID: cVriezenpJerichoF54.98; Source: photo; Repository: NPAPH; Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)“World’s oldest City” (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan23, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Jericho Mound from Mount of Temptation (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan01, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)A.D. Tushingham (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan40, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)A.D. Tushingham (1962, ID: cTushinghampSultan42, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)A.D. Tushingham (1962?, ID: cTushinghampSultan41, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)A.D. Tushingham in green cap (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan39, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Cecil Western (left) and Maggie M. Tushingham (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan36, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)One of the seven plastered skulls in situ (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan37, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Single plastered skull with lower jaw (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan19, Source: Slide,
Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham) A.D. Tushingham and Prue Oliver (1956, ID: cTushinghampSultan35, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)A.D. Tushingham and Dorothy Marshall at Jericho (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan34,
Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Kathleen Kenyon at Jericho (1952 or 1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan33, Source: Slide,
Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Payday at Jericho (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan28, Source: Glass slide 2” x 2”, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)View of the site (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan25, Source: Glass slide 2” x 2”, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Site shot, women and camels in the distance (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan26, Source: Glass slide 2” x 2”, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Bell tents for storage (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan24, Source: Glass slide 2” x 2”, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Day off? Shoe shines all round – Peter Pedrette second from left (1953, ID:
cTushinghampSultan38, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D.
Tushingham)Skull cult of PPNB – development – cult of ancestors? – Single skull below floor (impressions only) (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan17, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)House modified to create private chapel, shrine PPNB (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan15b, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)House modified to create private chap el, shrine PPNB (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan15a, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Rectangular house (PPNB) – 7th millennium B.C.) – still irrigation domesticated crops; also domesticated goat, but mostly gazelles (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan14, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)PPN floor with rush mats (impressions only) (1953, ID: cTushinghampSultan16, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Top of staircase (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan08, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Tower showing entrance and exit to passage and stairs (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan07, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)PPNA tower and city wall dated, probably before 8000 B.C. (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan05, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Storm water in site: Garstang’s trench from the 1930s (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan04, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)Women at the well in 1952: note approaching storm (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan03, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)‘Ain es-Sultan: the spring as it was in 1952 (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan02, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)PPNB city wall above PPNA city wall (note space between), 7th millennium B.C. (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan11, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator A.D. Tushingham)PPNA private house – round; remember, there is not only good evidence for engineering, community projects – which included also the irrigation works for domesticated grains, pulses (peas, beans, chick peas. 5000 years before the Egyptian pyramids of about 2500 B.C. (1952, ID: cTushinghampSultan10, Source: Slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
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