Ruth Amiran ( he, רות עמירן; 1914 – December 14, 2005), née Brandstetter, was an Israeli archaeologist whose book ''Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land: From Its Beginnings in the Neolithic Period to the End of the Iron Age'' which was published in 1970 is a standard reference for archaeologists working in Israel.
Ruth Amiran was born in the moshawa
Yavne'el
Yavne'el ( he, יַבְנְאֵל, ar, يفنيئيل) is a moshava and local council in the Northern District of Israel. Founded in 1901, it is one of the oldest rural Jewish communities in the country. According to the Israel Central Bureau o ...
in the
Galilee
Galilee (; he, הַגָּלִיל, hagGālīl; ar, الجليل, al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Galilee traditionally refers to the mountainous part, divided into Upper Galilee (, ; , ) and Lower Gali ...
area of the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...
. In 1908 her father Yehezkel Brandshteter had immigrated from Tarnów in Poland (Galicia) to the area, where he married her mother Devora in 1913. She went to school in Haifa and became later in 1933 one of the first students of Archeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She excavated alongside
Judith Marquet-Krause
Judith Marquet-Krause, () (1906 – 1 July 1936) was a Jewish archaeologist, who was a pioneer in the archaeology of Israel and one of the first archaeologists born there. She led excavations at Et-Tell , where the Canaanite city of Ai wa ...
at et-Tell.
Awards
Amiran received the
Israel Prize
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History
The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...
in 1982.
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List of Israel Prize recipients
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List
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References
1914 births
2005 deaths
Jewish Israeli writers
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Israel Prize women recipients
Israel Prize in Land of Israel studies recipients
Israeli people of German-Jewish descent
Israeli women scientists
Israeli women archaeologists
20th-century archaeologists
20th-century Israeli women writers
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