Oakland Journal Number 21: Fall 2011

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In the Valley of Elah: Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, Israel
(Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Pytlik, Michael; Stamps, Richard; Cole, Natalie B.
In 2009, nine Oakland University students and two faculty members, Associate Professor Richard Stamps and Special Instructor Michael Pytlik, participated in an excavation at the small site of Khirbet Qeiyafa, also known as biblical Sha’arayim, Israel. In 2010, thirteen students returned with these faculty members, to the same site for further excavations, and to learn in a more developed field school.
Man, Metal and Metaphor: Metal in Early Medieval Warrior Culture and in Beowulf
(Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Walsh, Susan; Cole, Natalie B.
In the Iron Age culture of 500 AD, man made the metals. And metals also made the man. The importance of metallurgy to the early medieval Germanic culture of Northwestern Europe is captured in the old English poem Beowulf about a warrior culture in which the very fabric of society is woven in mail.