Year |
Personnel at Megiddo |
Personnel Details |
Major Events (internal and external) |
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1925 (Fall) |
Clarence Fisher Stanley Fisher DeLoach Higgins |
Arrival of initial team members in September |
Albright is denied admission to site in October |
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1926 (Spring) |
Clarence Fisher Stanley Fisher DeLoach Higgins Kellogg |
Kellogg arrives in May; Higgins fired in June |
Dig house completed; Breasted visits in March |
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1926 (Fall) |
Clarence Fisher Stanley Fisher DeLoach Lind Woodley |
Lind and Woodley hired in August; Kellogg leaves before the season, in October; Stanley Fisher leaves in early December |
Digging finally begins |
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1927 (Spring) |
Guy (× 2) DeLoach Lind O’Neill Parker Tchoub (× 2) Wilson (× 2) Woodley |
Tchoub joins in January; Fisher reclassified at end of April and Guy takes over as field director; Wilsons present from April to June; O’Neill arrives in April and is fired in May; Parker arrives in June |
Breasted visits in April |
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1927 (Fall) |
Guy (× 2) DeLoach Lind Parker Tchoub (× 2) Woodley |
DeLoach appointed assistant field director for July–September, to temporarily assist Guy |
Earthquake hits region in July, Megiddo not affected |
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1928 (Spring) |
Guy (× 2) Lind Little Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) Terentieff Wilensky Woodley |
Shipton arrives in January; DeLoach remains in Chicago; Wilensky present April–June; Terentieff present June–September; Little leaves at end of season, in July; Woodley fired in August |
Stables discovered in early June |
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1928 (Fall) |
Guy (× 2) DeLoach Lamon Lind Parker Shipton Staples (× 2) Tchoub (× 2) |
Lamon and the Staples arrive in September; DeLoach also returns at same time |
Excavators realize that Mrs. Rosamond Templeton owns much of the site |
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1929 (Spring) |
Guy (× 2) DeLoach (× 2) Hamilton Kent Lamon Lind Parker Shipton Staples (× 2) Tchoub (× 2) |
DeLoach gets married in late April; Kent present only for March–June; Hamilton present only for June and July |
Breasted visits in March, with Rockefellers |
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1929 (Fall) |
Guy (× 2) DeLoach (× 2) Lamon Lind Parker Shipton Staples (× 2) Tchoub (× 2) Woolman (× 2) |
Woolmans arrive in September |
Arab Riots in August, just before start of season at Megiddo; US stock market crash on “Black Tuesday,” 29 October; first experiments with balloon photography |
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1930 (Spring) |
Guy (× 2) DeLoach (× 2) Lamon Lind Parker Shipton Staples (× 2) Tchoub (× 2) Woolman (× 2) |
DeLoaches leave in March; Woolmans leave in June |
Higgins dies in Tennessee, in March; foundation stone laid for the new Palestine Archaeological Museum in June |
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1930 (Fall) |
Guy (× 2) Engberg (× 2) Lamon Lind Parker Phillips (× 2) Shipton Staples (× 2) Tchoub (× 2) |
The Engbergs and the Phillipses arrive in October |
Oriental Institute buys Mrs. Templeton’s portion of the site in December for $3,500 |
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1931 (Spring) |
Guy (× 2) Engberg (× 2) Hucklesby Lamon Lind Parker Shipton Staples (× 2) Tchoub (× 2) |
Phillips fired in January; Hucklesby present only for June and July; the Stapleses leave at end of season, in July |
Excavation of water tunnel begins |
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1931 (Fall) |
Guy (× 2) Engberg (× 2) Lamon Lind May (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
The Mays arrive in October |
Excavation of water tunnel continues |
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1932 (Spring) |
Guy (× 2) Engberg (× 2) Lamon Lind May (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) Wilensky |
Wilensky returns in April; Wilensky’s wife fractures skull in May, in freak accident |
Filming at Megiddo and elsewhere in February and March, for Breasted’s movie, The Human Adventure (appeared in 1935) |
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1932 (Fall) |
Guy (× 2) Breasted (son) Engberg (× 2) Lamon Lind May (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) Wilensky |
Breasted (son) present September–October |
Guy asks to have a study season, but Breasted refuses and digging continues |
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1933 (Spring) |
Guy (× 2) Beaumont Engberg (× 2) Lamon (× 2) Lind May (× 2) Parker Piepkorn Shipton Tchoub (× 2) Wilensky |
Lamon gets married in February; Wilensky fired in June; Piepkorn present May–July; Beaumont present June–October |
Breasted visits in April; dig house renovations completed by this time; Wilsensky problems |
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1933 (Fall) |
Guy (× 2) Concannon Engberg (× 2) Lamon (× 2) Lind (× 2) May (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Lind gets married and Concannon arrives, both in September |
Arab general strike affects Megiddo in November |
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1934 (Spring) |
Guy (× 2) Concannon Engberg (× 2) Irwin Lamon (× 2) Lind (× 2) May (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Irwin arrives in April; Engbergs, Mays, and Concannon all leave at end of season, in June; Guy fired in August |
May accused of smuggling antiquities, resulting in a fine; Guy fired in fallout |
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1934 (Fall) |
Lamon (× 2) Beaumont Irwin Lind (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Lamon appointed acting field director; Beaumont returns and Irwin leaves, both in November |
Staff all working on publications; study season, with no excavation |
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1935 (Spring) |
Lamon (× 2) Beaumont Lind (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Lamon continues as acting field director; Beaumont present through February and then again in April |
Work continues on publications; stratigraphic errors discovered and corrected |
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1935 (Fall) |
Loud Altman (× 2) Lamon (× 2) Lind (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Loud appointed new field director; brings Altmans with him |
Breasted visits in October; dies in early December, while returning from visit |
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1936 (Spring) |
Loud Altman (× 2) Lamon (× 2) Lind (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Lamons leave at end of season, in April; Lind let go in August |
Arab Revolt of 1936–39 begins; affects expedition from April onward; dig nearly terminated at end of season for lack of funds |
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1936 (Fall) |
Loud Altman (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Late start to season |
Arab Revolt of 1936–39 continues; dig season funded after all |
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1937 (Spring) |
Loud Altman (× 2) Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Team members continue, with no changes or additions |
Arab Revolt of 1936–39 continues; gold hoard discovered in March; ivories discovered in April |
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1937 (Fall) |
Loud Altman (× 2) Frazer Parker Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Frazer arrives in November |
Arab Revolt of 1936–39 continues |
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1938 (Spring) |
Loud Altman (× 2) Frazer Parker Pope Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Pope arrives in February; Frazer leaves at end of season, in April |
Arab Revolt of 1936–39 continues; Starkey murdered in January; Loud receives death threat in March |
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1938 (Fall) |
Loud (× 2) Altman (× 2) Parker Pope Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Loud gets married just before beginning of the season |
Arab Revolt of 1936–39 continues |
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1939 (Spring) |
Loud (× 2) Altman (× 2) Parker Pope Shipton Tchoub (× 2) |
Pope leaves at end of season, in April; Shipton resigns after the season, in June |
Arab Revolt of 1936–39 continues; Iliffe shot in April; “1939 White Paper” issued in mid-May |
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1939 (Fall) |
Parker Tchoub (× 2) |
Unable to find replacement for Shipton |
Season canceled; dig comes to an end after fifteen years |
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1940–54 |
Parker Tchoub (× 2) |
Shipton gets married in mid-May 1941; Tchoub and wife stay in dig house after final season never materializes; Parker also looks after things, but from Haifa |
Dig house and mound occupied and used by various entities during World War II; battle fought at site in May 1948; dig house looted in July and then burnt down in October 1948 |