Trude Dothan ( he, טרודה דותן‎; 12 October 1922 – 28 January 2016) was an Israeli archaeologist who focused on the Late Bronze and

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s in the region, in particular in

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culture.

Biography

Trude Krakauer (later Dothan) was born in

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. She immigrated with her parents to

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at the age of one. In

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, they joined the local community of intellectuals and artists, many of them German speakers. Her father, Leopold Krakauer (1890–1954), was an artist and architect who designed several

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-style buildings for Jerusalem's " garden city" of

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; her mother

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(née Wolf, 1890–1970) was a painter. She attended the Rehavia Gymnasium for her high school education. In 1951 she married Moshe Dothan (1919–1999), a fellow archaeologist with whom she shared interest in

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and particularly the Philistine culture. They had two children together, one of them Dan was vocalist for the Israeli rock and new wave band

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. She died on 28 January 2016, aged 93.

Academic and archaeology career

A professor at

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

from 1977, she held the Eliezer Sukenik Chair of Archeology and headed the Berman Center of Biblical Archaeology. Her private collection of books is now in the Lanier Theological Library, Houston, Texas.

Awards and recognition

*1991 – Percia Schimmel Award in archaeology, awarded by the

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. *1998 –

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, for archaeology. *2003 – an honorary PhD from the

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, Jerusalem.

Published works

*The Philistines and Their Material Culture, 1982 *People of the Sea: Search for the Philistines (with Moshe Dothan), 1992 *Deir el-Balah: Uncovering an Egyptian Outpost in Canaan from the Time of the Exodus

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