The meeting will take place on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 1 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom.
Temple Beth Sholom Hazak welcomes Dr. Nick Eiteljorg, a classical archaeologist with the International Classroom Program of Penn Museum, to its meeting on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 1 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom, 1901 Kresson Road in Cherry Hill.
Eiteljorg’s presentation will be entitled, “Archaeology: Helping the Past Speak to Us.” Archaeologists find things in groups, not one-at-a-time. They then try to use the whole of what is found to learn from.
Eiteljorg has worked in Italy (the Etruscan site of Orvieto, a Neolithic site in southern Italy, and Pompeii), Greece (mostly on the Acropolis, but also in Northwest Greece,) and Turkey (Gordion and Kinet Hoyuk.) He has two areas of special expertise: the architecture of the Classical period, especially on the Acropolis, and the use of computers in archaeology. He excavated the last of the entrances to the Acropolis prior to the grand building of the Classical period, and he worked on the grand building itself for nearly a decade. He has written at length about both the older and the grander entrances, about computing in general for archaeologists, and also about the use of computer-aided design software for dealing with important buildings from the past.
The entire community is welcome to attend Hazak’s meetings. Refreshments will be served. Guests pay a $10 fee, members are admitted for free. Anyone with questions can contact Sharon and Charles Goldstein at (856/234–3539 or visit www.tbsonline.org/hazak.
