Recent Testimony of Archaeology to the Scriptures. 319 III. THE PALESTINIAN CIVILIZATION. Other recent testimony of archaeology brings before us the Palestinian civilization of the conquest period. Palestinian l e i x n p g lo ar r r a a ti y on o s f " w fi it n h d i s n " t il h l e ust la ra st tin f g ew thi y n e g a s rs m h en av ti e on y e i d el i d n ed th a e B st ib ar le t , m fin o d n s y o w f i t t h h e th sa in m g e s( t 2 h 8> i . ngs I , nd fi i n v d id s u o a f l l m ik e e n t t h io in n g o s, f a t n h d em fin a d l s l i i s n h h e a r r e neither possible nor desirable. Of incomparably greater impor· tance than these individually interesting relics of Canaanite antiquity is the answer afforded by recent research to two questions: 1 . First in order, Does the Canaanite culture as revealed q by ue t s h t e as ex r c e a la v t a e t d io i n n s t a h c e c B or ib d le w ? ith H t o h w e m sto u r c y h o o f f a Is b r r a e e a l k at in th c e ul c tu on re is required by the Bible account, and how much is revealed by the excavations? For answer, we must find a standpoint somewhere between that of the dilettante traveler in the land of the microscopic scientist thousands of miles away. The d ca le re p fu oi l n e t xc o a f v v at ie o w r . in t P h e e tr fi ie e < l 2 d 4 > o , c B cu li p s i s e < s 2 G t > h , a M t s a a c n a e lis a t n er d safe mid 126 > macker<27> and Se11in< , Schu 28 >-these are the men with whom to stand. And for light on the early civilization of Palestine, the great work of Macalister at Gezer stands easily first. HISTORICAL VALUE OF POTTERY, t lo a g n i c I c e n al h d a o e s r t d e b r e e m r e i n w ni h a n i l g c lo h w t h i e i s s d g q t a o u in e t s e h t d i a o t n ex e s o c t f l i u m s c i a u v t l e e tu ly r o e f f , r t t o i o m m o e t m h a u n e c d h st c u i h m d r y p o n o o r o f pottery. The pottery remains are not to be undervalued, and neither are they to be overvalued. Time is only one thing that feren s t ho s w ta s ge it s se o lf f in civ s i i l m iz i a la ti r o it n y a o t r d d i i s ff s e im re i n la t ri p ty lac in es po a t t te t r h y e . s D am if e time, and adaptation to an end either at the same time or at widely different times, show themselves in pottery, and render very uncertain any chronological deduction. And, still more,
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