Actual Archaeology

Shalom! Good to hear from all of you with your comments. It is hard not having a phone! Today (Wed. June 7th) we actually started digging in the square I am assigned to. We have an interesting square because there is several occupation levels visible from Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (i.e. a VERY long time). We found a Hellenistic (Greek era) measurment stone, some bone, some ivory and a ton of pottery. Tomorrow we will be digging out the wall that runs thru part of square. We got all of our shade tarps up so it was much cooler today on the site but...i do already have tan lines...my sock line at the ankle is quite amusing. It almost looks like I am wearing socks when I am not! I will try to post pics tomorrow (using someone else computer and card reader so not always sure when I can access stuff). This weekend we are going on our first travel outside of Neve Shalom and Tel Gezer so I am really excited. Can't wait to see Jerusalem and other sites. The food is quite good here and geared towards vegetarians, so I have been eating well and drinking water and turkish coffee (which is actually more chewed than drunk...). Miss you all!!