Kathleen Kenyon became known as the Mistress of Stratigraphy because of her excavations at Ancient Jericho between 1952 and 1958. This episode will discuss what fuelled Kenyon to carry out excavations there and what it was like to excavate with her.

The primary source for this episode was the book Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land by Miriam C. Davis.

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