ABSTRACT
When weapons operate muses are silenced, but not excavators... From ruins, broken vessels and crumbs o f the past that disappeared you draw the eternal spirit o f man.
Minister of Labour Mordechai Ben-Tov (BIES 15 (1949/50): 55)
Two yearSy ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work Carl Sandburg (“Grass”, 1918)
The war left hundreds of abandoned places in its wake. The huge wave of immi gration in 1948-52 resulted in extensive development of new places. This chapter discusses how these affected budding Israeli archaeology.
