Between 1929 and 1935 she took part in excavations in southern Rhodesia, at historical sites in England (such as Verulamium, Samaria, Leicester, and Viroconium-Bath), and in Palestine (now Israel and Jordan).
In 1951, as the new director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, Kenyon planned an expedition to Jericho. There she would use the newest methods of excavation to reexamine findings made by earlier scientists and conduct diggings of her own. She was especially interested in any discoveries that dated around the “Joshua era” (c. 1400–1250). Excavations of the site had begun in the eighteenth century and continued at different times throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The last full-scale exploration of Jericho had been conducted by Professor John Garstang (1876–1956) of Liverpool University during the mid-1920s.
Kenyon arrived at Jericho in the spring of 1952. The period of her excavation work would be brief—between February and April—for the intense summer heat of the desert would later make digging impossible. Her site was called Old Jericho, lying on the outskirts of the modern town of Jericho. It consisted of a seventy-foot high, oval-shaped heap that spread over about eight acres.
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