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On the ninth instant the march to Preston was commenced; the cavalry troops reached that town on the same evening; but the day proving rainy, and the roads heavy, the foot regiments were left at a small market-town called Garstang, half-way between Manchester and Preston.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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Followers of Julius Wellhausen, such as Garstang, were not inclined to make statements that demonstrate that the Bible is correct in historical matters, any more than are modern skeptics who follow theories that reflect Wellhausen's anti-supernatural bias.
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One final word [says Garstang]: What good is this list anyway?
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One final word [says Garstang]: What good is this list anyway?
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The storms "last for days and reach far out into the Atlantic, acting like huge vacuum cleaners," says Garstang.
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During the late 1930s, after Garstang had finished his work at Jericho, the pioneering archaeologist went on to excavate a large Neolithic settlement near the Turkish city of Mersin, on the Mediterranean coast.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Garstang and Kenyon had to make sense of more than 10,000 years of archaeological deposits, which were first laid down when Jericho was a seasonal camp for hunter-gatherers and then continued to build up during the Neolithic period, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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The French and German archaeological institutes were based in romantic Istanbul; Garstang insisted that the British should set up shop in Ankara, the capital.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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In 1946 Garstang—who had been forced to suspend his dig at Mersin during the war—returned for a final season.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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The excavation of a predynastic burial beneath the niched gateway of the Fort by Garstang in 1906 (courtesy of Liverpool University).
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