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Category Archives: Tel Aviv University
Nearing the End
Dear Readers, The amount of finds has made the excavators concerned about publishing pictures before items go through scientific analysis and review. If they have not, anyone can publish a scientific paper about it before the editio princeps is prepared. And mistakes are often made in early assumption. Therefore this blog went through an editContinue reading “Nearing the End”
Meet Our Volunteers: Graham Walker, England
Graham Walker Age 64 Aldershot, Hampshire, England Profession: Builder, Food Distributor AZK: What have you been doing in the excavation and how did you get here? GW: Digging holes in the ground, moving buckets of earth! This is my first dig. Two years ago I was talking to Ronnie McCracken about his Ramat Rachel excavation experience.Continue reading “Meet Our Volunteers: Graham Walker, England”
Week 4 new pics
Sunday starts off with a group tour. Oded is constantly visiting the five areas with Manfred Oeming and Yuval Gadot, CoDirectors, and snapping away at us. He posts them to facebook- It is going to be a great week !! Posted by The Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Days 18-19 The World Around Us
“We have achieved 250 percent of what we expected.” “What you have here in Area E- Azekah East- would satisfy me for the end of the season. Here we are with three weeks still to go!” Comments like these by Prof. Oded Lipschits in the past few days give a taste of the way weContinue reading “Days 18-19 The World Around Us”
Day 17 Archaeology in Word and Image by Sanna Miller
The following poem and photographs are by Area S-2 excavator and University of Iowa student Sanna Miller, who reflected on the Azekah excavation thus far. Our heavy bodies pull themselves into somewhat standing positions as the sky sings four a.m. We make our way to the coffee to the bus to the site to theContinue reading “Day 17 Archaeology in Word and Image by Sanna Miller”
Day 16 Revelations
Well, the cumulative effort of weeks is showing. A water cistern or water system was detected in Omer’s section close to closing time and will be explored more tomorrow, and maybe for days. A riddle was solved: Why were there Byzantine coins in mud bricks of what was apparently an Iron Age structure? The mudContinue reading “Day 16 Revelations”
French views on Azekah’s expedition
French views on Azekah’s expedition “Four French students taking part in the dig? We want your thoughts on how it’s going!” Well, we attended the first two weeks of the dig, and now that we are back in France, here are our answers… without our French accent and rudeness, but still, with honesty! First we want toContinue reading “French views on Azekah’s expedition”
Day 15 A Scorcher
We moved out as usual and I was first up on the hill of the volunteers. As they day went on the “oven” got hotter – our Eastern section and Ido’s top section shut down early and we went back to base camp to wash pottery instead. Once again the consideration for the wellbeing ofContinue reading “Day 15 A Scorcher”
Tarah Van De Wiele’s Azekah Top 10!
Tarah Van De WieleThe Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition Thank you for such an amazing experience which I cannot wait to have again! My Azekah top 10:1. Sunrise witnessed from the Tel every morning. Why is sunrise so much more amazing when you are digging a hole in the ground? 2. Work that is so hard IContinue reading “Tarah Van De Wiele’s Azekah Top 10!”
The Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition 