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Dec 08, 1914 Yavne'el, Israel Died on 14 Dec 2005 (aged 91)
Israeli archaeologist
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About Ruth Amiran
- Ruth Amiran (Hebrew: ??? ??????; 1914 – December 14, 2005), née Brandstetter, was an Israeli archaeologist whose book Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land: From Its Beginnings in the Neolithic Period to the End of the Iron Age which was published in 1970 is a standard reference for archaeologists working in Israel. Ruth Amiran was born in the moshawa Yavne'el in the Galilee area of the Ottoman Empire.
- In 1908 her father Yehezkel Brandshteter had immigrated from Tarnów in Poland (Galicia) to the area, where he married her mother Devora in 1913.
- She went to school in Haifa and became later in 1933 one of the first students of Archeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- She received the Israel Prize in 1982.
