Wednesday 4/712 (’MERICA)
Field Notes/Pottery Washing/Lecture
FN:
Area-C
Square- KK21
4:05 -Wake
4:34-Load Bus
4:45- Bus Departs
5:17 -Bus Arrives
5:30-Begin to Dig
After missing an entire day yesterday, I was able to see significant change at the site, both in KK21 and also in Area C as a whole.
I worked in the south west corner of the square for the majority of the morning. All my finds where close to the, now, very clearly defined tabun. Because of this heavy concentration, I was given a new find bucket as well as a brand new locus # (11494).
As the morning progressed, I uncovered a variety of vessel sherds (large and small/rims and handles) as well as small pieces of bone. This is most likely because I was so close to the tabun. Now, my dirt buckets were separated out to be dry sifted. Later I briefly sifted; we found more bones as well as three tiny pottery sherds.
All and all the day was productive and moved more and more quickly. I was unable to find any steps leading down from the slopping bedrock which was also in my little south west corner area. The bed rock appears to naturally slope down or perhaps it is human shaped natural fall in the bedrock. I am hoping that Sunday I will find the steps. I and the rest of Oakland are leaving the site a day early. We leave in the AM to go to Jerusalem for a long weekend. The day was spent quickly. I am now looking forward for pottery washing today. As well as a little Fourth of July Party.
PW:
Pottery washing began at 4:30. I washed many buckets on my own as well as helped others. We have come up with a great system to help each other washout more buckets that way.
LN:
Historical Geography, How Land Frames Our Understanding of History, Culture, and the Bible
By: John M (Trinity)
—The way human beings are interacting with their environment with a great focus on history.
Overview:
Geographical Determinacy
Geo governs a cultures history
Geo includes the physical and other cultural aspects of land
Concepts include cultural concepts of place, home, space, and land
Intersection of Tactics:
(Historical) GEOOGRAPHY
ARCHAEOLOGY
TEXT
Tools of Historical Geography:
Geo- The Rocks and Soil
Plants and Animals
Settlement and Trade
Events and History
Text and Messages
Historical Geography as a Discipline:
-Pre-modern- Pilgrims & Scholars
Maps/Charts
Byzantine Expansion
Explorers and Scholars
-1800s
Tea Trade
Museum Hunting
Expedition Maps
Neapolitan
—Surveying of Western Palestine
-1900s
Locals of the region explore and search
Local history and legends are confirmed or denied
More maps and naming of old places
-2000s+
New Technology
Back to tactics:
Contextual Criticism
The meeting point of GEO/ARCH/TEXT
Nexus
Illustrations from History:
Egyptian Empire
Judean Monarchy
Assyria/Greece/Rome
Crusaders/Modern Times
**Now time to celebrate America’s Independence… in Israel? Well, why not!