Dave L Wrote:
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> Petrie was the editor of what is still the world's
> premier journal of Egyptology for many years.
The top English language Egyptology journal is the Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology ... was Petrie really the editor ... ??
>
> The list of his books alone is 97 in my library,
> so the number of articles he published in Peer
> Reviewed journals must run into the hundreds.
>
> As for Edwards and Verner, both of these men will
> have published dozens if not hundreds of articles
> in professional journals I would think.
>
> These books above are the primary data sets from
> the excavations and surveys, which are not
> normally peer reviewed beyond the normal publisher
> processes, and the rest are summaries for
> beginners who are not familiar with the details,
> which seems to be the applicable case here,
> despite the fact that some people seem to think
> they are familiar with the facts, when in reality
> they are not, and never have been.
The Edwards and Verner references certainly aren't "the primary data sets from the excavations", but are better described as "summaries for beginners who are not familiar with the details".
The "details" ofthe Step Pyramid, for example, appear in the publications by Lauer - such as ASAE 31 (1931) ...
At any rate, in answer to my original question - "which of these particular publications are peer reviewed?" - the answer is, then: none of them. As you say here, books don't get peer reviewed (although they may, of course, be read through by a colleague).
(Whilst on this subject, though, what did the peer review process make of the impossible Red pyramid on pg. 462 of Verner, mentioned
here?)
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