Dr. Herr Honoured at Center for Near Eastern Archaeology

Dr. Doug Clark, left, and Dr. Larry Herr
have served as co-directors of the Tall al
'Umayri excavations in the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan for more than 20 years.

Canadian University College Professor of Religious Studies Dr. Larry Herr was recently honoured at La Sierra University's (LSU) Center for Near Eastern Archaeology for his many years of service as one of the directors of the Tall al ‘Umayri excavations in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.  At a special ceremony during LSU's Archaeology Discovery Weekend, November 16-17, one of the Center's labs was named in honor of Dr. Larry Herr and Dr. Doug Clark.

Dr. Herr was also one of a handful of internationally-recognized presenters at the weekend event.  He presented a paper that dealt with the inscriptions discovered in Jerusalem from before the time the Israelites were in Canaan through Islamic inscriptions of the Middle Ages. In addition to the paper he presented, Dr. Herr also gave a demonstration of how pottery chronology works.  The full program for the weekend can be found here.