Archaeologist · Scholar
Zvi Lederman
fl. 1990–2016
Archaeologist and scholar, active 1990–2016. Excavated at Tel Beth-Shemesh (Israel). Wrote with Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zuzana Chovanec.
Life and work
- 1990With S. Bunimovitz directed the resumed excavations at Tel Beth-Shemesh (Israel), per OEANE; the site yielded Cypriot Base Ring juglets.
Tel Beth-ShemeshMeyers 1997
- 2015Co-authored with Z. Chovanec and S. Bunimovitz a study of organic residues in Cypriot Base Ring juglets from Tel Beth-Shemesh (received 25/02/2015), finding no opium.
- 2016With S. Bunimovitz published 'Opium or oil? Late Bronze Age Cypriot Base Ring juglets and international trade revisited' in Antiquity, concluding the juglets held perfumed oils and that their poppy-head shape did not refer to contents; answers R. S. Merrillees's 1962 opium hypothesis.
Connections
2 peopleFieldwork & employment
- Excavated with Shlomo Bunimovitz1990
Scholarship
- Wrote with Shlomo Bunimovitz2015–2016
- Wrote with Zuzana Chovanec2015
On Ancient Cyprus
2 pagesSources
- 1.Chovanec (2015). “Is there opium here? Analysis of Cypriot Base Ring juglets from Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel”.
- 2.Shlomo Bunimovitz, Zvi Lederman (2016). “Opium or oil? Late Bronze Age Cypriot Base Ring juglets and international trade revisited”. Antiquity. Online
- 3.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.