Ok first let me apologize I think I made an error and all the stuff I wrote on Sunday didn't get saved or something, sorry! Monday morning began at 4:30 a.m. With loading the busses with water for the different areas. The busses left for Tel Safi at 5:15 and 10-15 min later we arrived. The walk to area A was steep, I should have walked more before leaving. Area F where I'll be working is about a mile further walk to the top, long walk but fantastic view. In this area they have found evidence of Bronze Age, Iron Age, the remnants of a rather large Crusader fortress and even items from the Ottoman Empire. From the top one can see the flat land toward the Mediterranean and to the north and east the rolling hills. Gath was the capital of the Philistines and the home of the biblical Goliath. The encounter between Goliath and a young David was only about 2-3 miles away. After the brief orientation Dr. Jeff Chadwick raised Area F's flag they Jolly Roger will humming the theme song from Pirates of the Caribbean...he has a golden oldie song with his own words for everything. I worked the day with Dr. Mark (embarrassed that I do not know his last name) he teaches at Evangel University in Springfield, Mo. He was cutting it to an area that he has worked at for years, in this area, below the wall of the Crusader Fortress we found lots of pottery from the Bronze Age and Iron Age, pieces of bone, areas that were very ashy and pieces of what Mark called Taboon, which is what they would have make their cooking areas out of, we even found an area of charcoal. At 12:45 we had to clean up and head back to the busses.
We had lunch, then 2 hours of pottery washing, cleaning the dirt off fragments and putting them in a flat to dry in the sun to be read later on. Supper and a lecture on Philistine Pottery in the evening. After that I was on water detail which is filling all the jugs, about 30 for the next day, and many 5 gallon jugs as well. All in all it was a great day, tiring yet it simply flew by.
We had lunch, then 2 hours of pottery washing, cleaning the dirt off fragments and putting them in a flat to dry in the sun to be read later on. Supper and a lecture on Philistine Pottery in the evening. After that I was on water detail which is filling all the jugs, about 30 for the next day, and many 5 gallon jugs as well. All in all it was a great day, tiring yet it simply flew by.
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