Tell er-Rumeith: The Excavations of Paul W. Lapp, 1962 and 1967

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Tristan Barako has broad experience as a writer researcher and fundraiser in diverse settings especially in academia and media production.  As Senior Writer and Researcher at Providence Pictures he researched wrote and edited highly-rated award-winning documentaries for national and worldwide distribution on NOVA the premiere science series on American Public Television.  Dr. Barako trained as an archaeologist receiving his doctorate and masters degrees at Harvard University and undergraduate degree at McGill University.  During this time he excavated and surveyed throughout the Mediterranean region both on land and at sea.   Currently he serves as Associate Director of Research Initiatives in Brown University's Office of the Vice President for Research. Nancy Lapp was Curator of the Bible Lands Museum at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary for thirty years before her retirement in 2000.  She is the author of Shechem IV The Persian-Hellenistic Pottery of Shechem/Tell Balâtah and has edited the final excavation reports of Paul Lapps excavations at Wâd? ed-Dâliyeh Tell el-Fûl and Araq el-Emir. Paul Lapp was Director and Professor of Archaeology at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem from 1960 through 1968.  During that time he directed excavations at Bab edh-Dhra` Taanach Wâd? ed-Dâliyeh and Tell el-Fûl among other sites.  His publications include Palestinian Ceramic Chronology 200 B.C. A.D. 70 The Dhahr Mirzbâneh Tombs and Biblical Archaeology and History.  He tragically died in 1970.