Today, we had the first day in the field! We have a great team and it looks like it is going to be a great season!
We started work in all areas and things are going very well. In fact, by the end of the day, almost all the cleaning was finished and tomorrow morning, most of the areas will be excavating already.
In Area A, were the largest amount of team members are located, Alex, Jill and Louise’s teams made good progress and hopefully tomorrow, we will start seeing some nice Iron Age material.
In Area E, Itzik and his team will start working in the EB III levels, and Haskel Greenfield and his team from Manitoba will work on the complete donkey skeleton which was found a few years ago.
In Area F, Jeff and his team are working on Iron I, Iron IIA and Iron IIB levels, and we should have some very interesting results. Among others, we hope to be able to define whether or not there is a evidence of a mid-8th cent. BCE earthquake.
In Area D, Joe and Amit are working in the lower city, uncovering evidence of its destruction in the late 9th cent. (by Hazael) and seeing if there are additional Iron age levels in this part of the site.
In addition, the archaeological science team is working in various areas, and we should be getting some great results from this as well.
Needless to say, I will be updating regularly.
So far, we have not yet set up the live internet video broadcast from the site, but hope to have it in place and working in the next few days.
Aren
Can you please post a map of the tel with marking of the zones you refer to in the progress note?
Thanks,
Oded
In today’s post, I gave a link which appears in the project website (www.dig-gath.org).
Aren
Hi, our son Steve Dyck is working with Haskel Greenfield! We are SO excited for him to have this amazing experience and we are really grateful to you for the blog! It is wonderful to learn what he is experiencing.
We are looking forward to the LIVE broadcast!
Thanks, nan
Hope the live broadcast will be up and running by the beginning of next week.
Aren