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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, January 2, 1992                   TAG: 9201020072
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: EMORY                                LENGTH: Short

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BOOK DISCUSSES E&H ARCHAEOLOGIST'S WORK

Four summers of archaeological research by Emory & Henry College professor Maurice Luker and his students in the 1970s have been recognized in a new book published by the Eisenbrauns Co.

"Tell el-Hesi: The Site and the Expedition" is part of a four-volume series detailing artifacts and historical information uncovered by a massive dig at a 25-acre site in Israel.

A consortium of American colleges and universities, in cooperation with the Israeli government, has been sending teams to work on the Tell el-Hesi site - a walled city dating to about 3000 B.C.

Luker, a religion professor with an interest in biblical archaeology, became assistant area supervisor for part of a 1971 dig at the site. He and his wife, the late Ann Johnson Luker, worked with other volunteers that summer to unearth a corner of the massive city wall.

He returned in the summers of 1973, 1975 and 1977, accompanied each year by several Emory & Henry students, co-workers or family members. The names of all the Emory & Henry participants and the areas they helped excavate are in the book. - Southwest bureau

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