Anthropological archaeology isn’t about art, architecture and artifacts. It’s about people, their culture and how they lived.  Ok, fine. But sometimes, even this anthropological archaeologist gets excited about things that get found on the tel.  Sometimes they are just so neat one can’t help it.

In the past two days we have uncovered some really cool things.  This after nearly three weeks of dirt, rocks, walls and iron slag.  Not that we aren’t completely happy about iron slag, we are.  It is really important in our attempts to understand the metalworking and metal manufacturing that occurred on Tel Akko.  And the walls, well they tell us where they lived and give us a glimpse into other technologies, like stone cutting and brick making.  Continue reading Gifts From the Tel →

So, I was sitting in my room in front of the computer editing blogposts when I heard a strange sound.  I swore I heard a horse.  But I’d never heard one before, so I must have imagined it.  A short while later, I thought I heard a horse neighing again.

I got up and went into the pottery laboratory, which is just across from my room. I asked if anyone had heard a horse.  They all said no.  But then Martha Risser said, well, you know all the horse carts go by on that side street.  So I assumed a few horses had gone by.  Continue reading A Horse, A Horse, My Kingdom for a Horse? →