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...Wood said he hoped the event would "give people incentive and information so they know [vegetarianism] is a practical lifestyle...
Cusack said Cambridge has recently modernized its water system to cut the level of THMs, which form when chlorine added to water to kill dangerous bacteria reacts with organic material, such as leaves and wood. Recent changes to the system include adjustments in the filtering process and a switch to non-chlorine based chemicals, Cusack said...
Kenyon's dating of Jericho's destruction was based largely on the fact that she failed to find a type of decorative pottery, imported from Cyprus, that was popular in the region around 1400 B.C. Its absence, she reasoned, meant that the city had long since become uninhabited. But Wood, an ancient-pottery expert now at the University of Toronto, argues that Kenyon's excavations were made in a poorer part of the city, where the expensive imported pottery would have been absent in any case. And he says that other pottery, dug up in Jericho in the 1930s...
...thick layer of soot at the site, which according to radioactive carbon-14 dating was laid down about 1400 B.C., supports the biblical idea that the city was burned, not simply conquered. Finally, Egyptian amulets found in Jericho graves can be dated to around 1400 B.C. as well. Says Wood: "It looks to me as though the biblical stories are correct...
Other experts find little fault with Wood's archaeology, but they are more skeptical about his linking of the evidence with biblical events. The most serious sticking point: few scholars think Joshua and his fellows entered the land of Canaan as early as 1400 B.C. Most believe the Israelites came about 200 years later, and then not as military conquerors but as a wave of immigrants. So the scholarly disputes over Joshua's military feats are likely to continue. In matters of faith, science can never provide the ultimate answers...