Boomer Archeology – Bible Archeology Society

Boomer archeology: a graphic memory of tribes, identity and sacred land

By Thomas Ivan Levy, Lily Almida
(Sheffield: Equinox, 2025), 408 pp / $ 39.95

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The newly automatic biographical graphic memory of the archaeologist Thomas Levy, Boomer archeologyLevy’s childhood from childhood to recent retirement follows Levy, who has tracked his path from Globe Trump’s archaeologist at the University of California, San Diego, to a professor. Memorandum was through a reflection of the comedy book, a reflection of the levy and book artist, levy’s nephew and a conceptual phone conversation between Lily Almeida, a UK-based artist, detects Levy’s life and career.

As the title of the book is clear, Levy is a part of the “boomer” generation that came to age when the “American dream” promised citizens that they could go to the positions of their chosen professions and pursuit. His Jewish identity also makes his way through memories: his values ​​learned from his family, who left Russia because of his marriage to Jewish Pogoomes, Israel’s defense forces, and his marriage to a woman from the South Asian descendants, who turned it into Judaism. –

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The memorandum documents do many transitions that have featured Levy’s professional journey. He began his career with the most ancient human past, challetchithak period (literally, “copper stone” studying age [c. 4500–3300 BCE]), During which the first mining of metals was exploited. Fellow archaeologists have long recognized Levy as an early copper production and metallurgy expert. Levy acquired this reputation from his work in the news of Ann Nas (located in the Valley of the present southern Jordan), which is the largest copper and smelly installation of copper in the ancient world.

Levi’s early interests also focused on human archeology (especially ethanorechology), which is a test of past through the lens of ancient and recent socio -economic conditions in traditional societies. In the latter years, Levy accepted “cyber -orcology”, especially in conflict areas to record and use digital methods and techniques to record and protect archaeological sites.

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Interestingly, the memory goes in less detail about the other important partnership of the levy in this field. For example, the levy team in the melt N Nass revealed the tenth -century BCE Adamite connection to King Suleiman, after which it was a substantial height of a substantial Israeli kingdom of Israeli Israeli Fancalistine during the time of the United Monaraki.

Second, digging into Israel at the site of Lahu (possibly the Bible), Levy recovered a pottery written by the Egyptian king Narmer. The reign of Narmer began at the end of the fourth thousand -year -old BC, and most scholars consider him the founder of Egypt’s uniform and first family.

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Recently, another development came near the northern Israeli coastal city of Dor, where Levy and his colleagues recorded evidence of the oldest tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Marine Archeology, which meets the initial pre -Potriyatheli period (C. 9700-6750 BC).

Although this book is a biography that paints the flattering image of its subject, it will definitely appeal to “boomers” and archaeological enthusiasts who are enjoying the innovative, successful and dangerous pursuits that make up the modern Bible archaeological field.

Donald Ken The Chair of the Bible Archeology Forum (BAF), the President of the Bible Archeology Society of Northern Virginia (Basonova), and the WF Albright Institute of Archeology research trustee in Jerusalem.