ABSTRACT
However, due to the history of the excavation of the site, controversy has always been part of Megiddo’s archaeological legacy. It was first excavated between 1903 and 1905 by J. Shumacher on behalf of the German Oriental Society. Between 1925 and 1939, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago sponsored a major excavation under the direction of C. S. Fisher, P. L. O. Guy and G. Loud. It is primarily due to this excavation with its incomplete and inadequate publications, as well as its primitive (by modern standards) archaeological methods, that much confusion over strata assignment of discoveries has occurred. In order to try to clear up some of the confusion, Y. Yadin, an Israeli archaeologist, conducted several seasons of work there between 1960 and 1972. However, his conclusions have only fueled the controversies. Thus, a new large-scale dig was begun on the site in 1992, under the direction of I. Finkelstein and D. Ussishkin, both of Tel Aviv University, and B. Halpern of Pennsylvania State University. Using newer archaeological paradigms,
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has surrounded this site remains to be seen.
