Gerald Lankester Harding (1901–1979) was an influential archaeologist and epigrapher whose field career began in 1926, when he set out to work for Flinders Petrie at Tell Jemmeh in British Mandate Palestine. Harding’s experiences on this, his first dig, were captured through his personal diary and photographs, which form part of a larger archive now housed in the UCL Institute of Archaeology Collections. This material is presented here for the first time, exploring how Harding came into archaeology, what it was like to work and live on a Petrie excavation, and to show how personal histories like this can contribute to a wider understanding of historic archaeological practice and methodology.

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与皮特里一起挖掘：杰拉德·兰克斯特·哈丁 (Gerald Lankester Harding) 在 Tell Jemmeh，1926–1927 年

杰拉尔德·兰克斯特·哈丁 (Gerald Lankester Harding，1901-1979 年) 是一位有影响力的考古学家和碑铭作家，他的野外职业生涯始于 1926 年，当时他开始在英国托管巴勒斯坦的 Tell Jemmeh 为 Flinders Petrie 工作。哈丁在这方面的经历，他的第一次挖掘，是通过他的个人日记和照片捕捉到的，这些照片构成了现在收藏在伦敦大学学院考古研究所收藏的更大档案的一部分。该材料首次在此展示，探讨哈丁如何进入考古学，在皮特里挖掘中工作和生活是什么感觉，并展示这样的个人历史如何有助于更广泛地理解历史考古实践和方法论.