Research Group

Louise A. Hitchcock

FELLOW

University of Melbourne

Louise is a professor in the Centre for Classics and Archaeology and the Centre for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are: Bronze Age Aegean archaeology.

Ruthellen Josselson

FELLOW

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Benjamin Halpern

FELLOW

Brandeis University

The Beginnings of Jewish Prayer

[RG #68] The Beginnings of Jewish Prayer

October 1996 - September 1997

Organizer:

Israel Ta-Shma (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

5,000-Year-Old Jade 'Dragon' Discovery Sheds Light on Neolithic Rituals

28 October, 2024

Image courtesy of Xinhua

Gideon Shelach-Lavi, a past fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and a member of the "Animals and Human Society in the Sinitic World" research group, recently commented on a remarkable archaeological find in China—a 5,000-year-old jade artifact in the shape of a “dragon,” discovered in a tomb belonging to the ancient Hongshan culture.