*If you don't get the reference, clearly you need to brush up on your Harry Potter lore. As it is written: "Clearly, fame isn't everything" (Kai Petraeus Philisophus)
Today I took part in an archeological survey in the Sharon region of Israel, in a place called Tel al-Mukhmar. The idea of the survey was to see what findings could be found from a basic scan of the ground of the area, without actual digging. This isn't enough to know who settled the site and when, because sometimes items from different eras could have been dropped or left in places that weren't actually settled by the people who owned the objects, but it does give a rough estimate of what there is good potential to find.
The area we worked in was filled with wild flowers and thorny plants, and we had to cut our way through with our arms and legs to see what we could find on the ground. It was tough work, but we found some interesting things.
Some pictures:
Some of the plants we had to get through:
More plants. Wish I had a machete...would've looked cool, too...
A ceramic handle in a porcupine burrow:
An Iron Age I ceramic rim:
A ceramic base in the above-mentioned burrow:
An ancient mudbrick:
Today I took part in an archeological survey in the Sharon region of Israel, in a place called Tel al-Mukhmar. The idea of the survey was to see what findings could be found from a basic scan of the ground of the area, without actual digging. This isn't enough to know who settled the site and when, because sometimes items from different eras could have been dropped or left in places that weren't actually settled by the people who owned the objects, but it does give a rough estimate of what there is good potential to find.
The area we worked in was filled with wild flowers and thorny plants, and we had to cut our way through with our arms and legs to see what we could find on the ground. It was tough work, but we found some interesting things.
Some pictures:
Some of the plants we had to get through:
More plants. Wish I had a machete...would've looked cool, too...
A ceramic handle in a porcupine burrow:
An Iron Age I ceramic rim:
A ceramic base in the above-mentioned burrow:
An ancient mudbrick:
