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Thanks to Eric Welch, I saw this great website -meant for anybody who is, has been, plans to be, a PhD student, or even just people with a sense of humour.
The site is called “piled high and deep“!
Love it!
Aren
This week, we had several things going on:
1) On Tuesday, Dr. Michael Jasmin, currently a post-doctoral research at the Semitic Museum in Harvard University, gave a talk in the lab on his work on the finds from soundings on the acropolis at Tel Yarmuth. These sounding are of interest, since they provide a stratigraphic sequence which includes late Late Bronze thru late Iron Age I. The material is very important, since it represents finds that are quite similar to adjacent sites (such as Safi, Lachish, etc.). Very interestingly, there is no destruction at the end of the LB, but there is a destruction during the late Iron Age I (late 11th century BCE?). From the material that he displayed (that is, illustrations), there does not appear to be any Iron Age II among the finds.
Among other things, this is very interesting vis-a-vis the dating of the mention of Yarmuth in the biblical text (particularly in the book of Joshua).
This is really something! Joe has just informed me that last night, his wife Sisi gave birth to a baby girl! There must be something in the water! (or maybe it’s the lack of oxygen in the lab?) MAZAL TOV!!!
Since today we are going to the brith of Rona and Rafi’s newborn son, we barely have time to process this latest piece of great news!
Yesterday, we were all overjoyed to hear that Rona, Area Supervisor of Area P and long-time member of the Safi team, gave birth to a healthy baby boy! Mazal Tov to Rona and her husband Rafi!!
Aren
Yesterday and today I was interviewed by a team from the German Public TV (ZDF), led by Friedrich Kluetsch, who are making a documentary film about the Sea Peoples phenomenon.
Yesterday, Tuesday, March 13th, we had another one of the lab talks for the Safi staff. This time, Itzik Shai and Joe Uziel, long term staff members of the project, spoke about a study that they are currently working on. The study deals with the reasons for the appearance, and for that matter, quite often, the lack of appearance of writing during the Bronze and Iron Ages. They presented a very interesting discussion on why, in their opinion writing did not appear in certain periods (despite that fact that it was known in adjacent cultures), and only appeared, in large scale during the Iron Age.
Yesterday, Oren Ackermann (the project Geoarchaeologist) and I presented a lecture at a meeting at organized by the Ministry for Environmental Protection, that dealt with climate change. The meeting, which was held at the Vulcani Center of the Ministry of Agriculture at Beth Dagan, dealt primarily with aspects relating to contemporary issues of climate change. Among the various lectures, we heard several with rather frightening conclusions on the drastic climatic changes in the next few decades, and the devastating effects that they will have on the world.
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