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City Daily Photo bloggers are now posting squares for our May 1 Theme Day.
Which brings me back to the old funny question, "Why do archaeologists always dig square holes?"
Well, it's part of a methodical grid system to keep track of what was found where, of course.
I was digging in many different squares during many seasons of excavations here at Tel Yarmouth between 1993 and 2007.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Yearning for Yarmouth
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For ABC Wednesday Y-Day, let's see some old pics from Yarmouth!
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Tel Yarmouth is an Early Bronze Age site--that means from more that 4,000 years ago.
The tel is in central Israel, not far from Beit Shemesh.
This photo is taken from the Yarmouth Facebook group's album. .
Sometimes, when they needed a photo of an important find in situ, right away, we volunteers (and some staff) would line up in a human wall and "make shade" over the object.
Here the volunteers, most of them from France, wait for the Bedouin paid workers to put up the shade netting.
In my first season with the Yarmouth group, in 1993, we slept in big tents in the forest next to Emmaus, near Latrun.

In my 2006 and 2007 seasons, we were housed in spartan kibbutz housing.
Everything I needed was on, under, above, or next to my bunk bed.
Sleeping in the quiet forest was more fun. The bells of the Trappist monks at Latrun monastery were my alarm clock for 4:00 a.m. rising.
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It was my first--and last--time to drink arak.
You never know what you're going to learn at a dig. :) It tastes quite good, actually.
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UPDATE 2020: See all about Tel Yarmouth at Biblewalks.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Pottery, like puzzle pieces
P is the letter of the day at ABC Wednesday. Have a look; it's fun.

Pre-dawn, or at least pre-sunrise, is when we start work at summer digs in Israel.
Potter's mark! I was lucky here; it is rare to find a potsherd bearing the mark of the potter himself. More than 4,000 years old, it is.
Back at camp, pottery-washing involves scrubbing hard with water and a nailbrush. It's also a good social hour for the volunteers.
Eventually the bags and bags of finds are brought to the laboratory in Jerusalem.
Pottery restoration takes patience, good memory, diligence, and skill.
The way my friend Gabi pieces the pieces back together is an art!
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UPDATE: If you like antiquities, don't miss Meead's new post about the legend of Serach bat Asher and her place in Persia.
Labels:
ABC Wednesday,
archaeology,
archaeology-Yarmouth,
pottery
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
R is for reconstruction (ABC Part 6)
Restoration

Mary's Spring in the old village of Ein Kerem.
When a historic building has to be moved to a new location, it is taken apart stone by stone and then put together again. In Hebrew this process is called "shiatuk." Reconstruction in English?

Restoration of ancient pottery in the lab.
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Labels:
ABC Wednesday,
archaeology-Yarmouth,
Mary's Spring,
pottery,
shiatuk
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