Tuesday 26/6/12
Field Notes/Pottery Read/ Lecture
FN:
Area-C
Square- KK21
4:00 -Wake
4:30-Load Bus
4:40- Bus Departs
5:15-Bus Arrives
5:20-Begin to Dig
-Arrive on site, divide and conquered OakDig Team for the days to come in different squares off area C- as well as a handful of us to area F.
I was placed in KK21 with Kat. Worked in square with 3 break periods Coffee Break at 7am- Breakfast at 9am- Watermelon Break at 11am. Begin record/measure/ top draws at 12:30-45. By 12:45 we cleaned up to load the bus and depart at about 1pm. (No exact times but the goal is follow this schedule)
My shoes broke just before watermelon break, so once the tour of the site began for the rest of the excavation team OZ took me to bet Shamash to buy new dig boots. We were gone only 20-30 mins. After returning the tour was almost over and soon we began to dig again. We did our last bucket chain of the day. My arms are quite sore from catching; I think I will have bruises. We then cleaned the area of tools and empty buckets. We loaded the bus with our supplies and our bodies. Then we drove back to our hostel home. We ate, showered, and prepared for the night. Pottery Read/Analysis began at 4:30 and Lecture Began at 7. Notes for both Follow
PR:
Began at 4:30pm
Important parts of analyzing a basket/locus
—- Diameter, Dating, Unique?, Record/Catalog
1-Body sherds are typically broke all around the sides
2-Ribs and Handles help determine style, type, function, and date of vessels
3-Record/Stats from each basket/locus with all the Tag Info
4- Data allows you compare Locus to Square and Square to Area later in the season
5-Bag/Tag/Record all dateable/unique sherds
6- Top soil locus allow for good indication of what to expect below; however, top soil places pottery/other finds out of context (remember, pottery settles up towards the surface giving such a mixture of styles, types and periods)
7-Because of the focus/context of our site to be Iron Age we focus on this pottery. All pottery is recorded; however, not all pottery is kept for further analysis, unless unique or refer to a good context of the strata of the current square as a whole.
8-Study of the profile of vessels is important to determining dates, function, and style of vessel
9- Having the whole profile of single vessel is considered a complete vessel, because the shape and type can be known.
10-BOWLS have open profiles. JUGS & JARS have closed profiles.
11-CONTEXT,CONTEXT,CONTEXT!!
12-Handles w/ Finger press are known as Kh. Qeiyafa Handles (rarely appeared b4 digging at Kh. Q. HENSE NAME!)
13-Still questions about handles, ranger from 1 to 3 finger impressions.
14-Two part chamber challises, date to the 10th cent BCE, (unique, many interoperations, ritual?)
LN:
Khirbet Qeiyafa: A fortified City in Judah from the Time of King David
By Prof. Yoesf Garfikel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
King David? Did he exist? Did he exist the way we imagine him?
DATES:
Approx. 1000-965 BCE
HOW DO WE KNOW?:
For thousands of years the bible was considered an exact chronology
Now, we question this.
Min and Max POV
MIN POV:
Phase 1-Mytholigcal Paradigm, the view of David being only myth/legend
Phase 2- Low Chronology Paradigm, the view that if David exist he is much later and less powerful
Phase 3- Ethnographic Paradigm
*** The MIN POV is in response to the MAX evidence
KH. Q. 2008:
1-Fort. City , 2-Slected Finds, 3-The Cult, 4-Ethnic Question
1-Location of the Fort City
a- The Ellah Valley
b- Borderland
c- Traditional location of David/Goliath Story
d- City with two Gates
e- Geo-political importance during the 10th cen BCE
f- Casemate walls
2-Slected Finds
a. Bronze & Iron Weapons
b. Ashdod ware (RED WHITE BLACK)
c. Storage Jars w/ Finger Impressions on the Handles (ONLY IN JUDAH)
d. Kh Q. Ostrocon Inscription (Semitic for sure, likely early Hebrew)
3-The Cult
a. 3 cultic rooms
b. Several cultic items/objects includes the below
- STANDING STONES w/ BASALT ALTERS!
- Understanding of the Alters is important
- Basins and Libation vessels
- Portable shrines
- Pottery items (box of Pottery)
- Stone Building Model
4- Ethnic Question
a. Who lived her in approx 1000 BCE? JUDAH- Strong evidence
-why/how?
-typical Judeans urban planning
-typical cooking habits (no pig bones)
-stamped jar handles
-Ostrocon in early Hebrew
-the cult items/rooms