Editing Kathleen Kenyon (section)

===Legacy===
[[File:WithKathleen Kenyon.jpg|thumb|right|Kenyon and [[Vassilios Tzaferis]] at an excavation in 1977]]
Kenyon's legacy in the field of excavation technique and ceramic methodology is attested to by [[Larry G. Herr]], one of the directors of the [[Madaba Plains Project]]. He attributes to her directly the first of the key events (after the advances made by [[William Foxwell Albright]] at [[Tell Beit Mirsim]] in the 1920s) that brought about our modern understanding of pottery in the southern Levant:

{{blockquote|"The first event was the refinement of stratigraphic techniques that Kathleen Kenyon's dig at Jericho catalyzed. The strict separation of earth layers, or archaeological sediments, also allowed the strict separation of ceramic assemblages".<ref name="Herr, Larry G. 2002">Herr, Larry G. (2002), "W.F. Albright and the History of Pottery in Palestine", ''Near Eastern Archaeology'' 65.1 (2002), 53.</ref>}}

Herr detects Kenyon's powerful indirect influence in the second event that promoted advance within ceramic methodology, namely:

{{blockquote|"the importation of Kenyon's digging techniques by [[Lawrence E. Toombs|Larry Toombs]] and [[Joe Callaway]] to [[G. Ernest Wright|Ernest Wright]]'s project at [[Tell Balata|Balata]]. Here, they combined Wright's interest in ceramic typology in the best Albright tradition with Kenyon's methods of excavation, which allowed the isolation of clear, stratigraphically determined pottery assemblages".<ref name="Herr, Larry G. 2002"/>}}

Herr summarises the somewhat mixed nature of Kenyon's legacy: for all the positive advances, there were also shortcomings:

{{blockquote|"Kenyon... did not capitalize fully on (the) implication of her stratigraphic techniques by producing final publications promptly. Indeed her method of digging, which most of us have subsequently adopted, causes a proliferation of loci that excavators often have difficulty keeping straight long enough to produce coherent published stratigraphic syntheses. Moreover, her insistence that excavation proceed in narrow trenches denies us, when we use the Jericho reports, the confidence that her loci, and the pottery assemblages that go with them, represent understandable human activity patterns over coherently connected living areas. The individual layers, insufficiently exposed horizontally, simply cannot be interpreted credibly in terms of function. This further makes publication difficult, both to produce and to use".<ref name="Herr, Larry G. 2002"/>}}

From 1948 to 1962, she lectured in Levantine archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Kenyon's teaching complemented her excavations at Jericho and Jerusalem. In 1962, she was appointed [[Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford]].<ref name=DavisBroshi>"Grand Kenyon," review of ''Dame Kathleen Kenyon'' by Miriam Davis, Magen Broshi, ''[[Haaretz]]'', Books, February 2009, p. 34</ref>