The past few days, before and after the weekend, have been spent finishing digging. We’ve cleaned the squares, drawn sections and top plans, and taken pictures. Wednesday we head back to the States after a busy but productive dig season. In the Iron IIC/Persian building we found a three-footed bowl on the last day and [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Closing the Squares
Posted in Jordan archaeology, tagged Jalul, Jordan on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Sacred and the Secular
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Easter, Jerusalem, Pesach on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for my lack of posting the past several days, we have been so busy finishing up the dig and this past weekend was a busy, whirlwind trip to Jerusalem. We missed the bus across the Allenby/King Hussein bridge and so had to get a taxi to the Beth-shean crossing. This delay added [...]
Driving Through the Wadi
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two Days at Safut
Posted in Jordan archaeology, dissertation, tagged archaeology, Jordan, Safut, valley on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent the last two days at my dissertation site of Safut. Yesterday Don Wimmer, the original director, gave me a 4.5 hour tour of the site. It was an amazing learning experience, we covered all of the areas on the tell, walked down to the spring, and then up through the Wadi [...]
A Room of Walls
Posted in Jordan archaeology, tagged Jalul, Jordan archaeology, travel on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have finished excavating in my square because the room we are digging is full of walls. The Persian period walls are maybe 10 ft high and at the bottom runs a two course wall diagonally through the room, and below that is another wall running into the diagonal wall. So while very [...]
The Mother of Cisterns and KeN
Posted in Jordan archaeology, tagged archaeology, Jordan, Petra on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry I didn’t post over the weekend, the hotel we stayed at in Petra charged 20 JD for one day of internet! How absurd is that? We arrived Friday night at the Al Anbat hotel and went to a converted qasr for dinner. It was really good buffet-style food. Saturday we [...]
Bitter Obama
Posted in politics, tagged clinton, obama, obama bitter, politics on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Even though this whole bitter, guns, and God “uproar” has subsided for the most part, I think its still good hear from someone who sets the record straight. Most sound bites are taken out of context but this one was a bit of a reach. With this and the new negative/personal attack ads [...]
Pottery Reading
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh Joyous Day!
Posted in Jordan archaeology, tagged archaeology, GPS, Jordan on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I worked from 6AM to 3PM straight, but now the GPS works. The last 20 cm have been fixed on the vertical axis and the horizontal axis was corrected from 2 or 3 meters down to 1 or 2 centimeters. Hurray, Paul and I shared an awkward high-five or two. We finished [...]
Driving to Sela
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
