Word: shechem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working in Jordan near the early Israeli capital of Shechem, the group used pottery fragments found in the ruins of a fortress to date the revolution led by Abimelech at about 1150 B.C. A team of 22 scholars participated in the excavation, the largest American archaeological project ever attempted in the Holy Land...