So, last Friday, the third - and likely last - season of excavations ended. For a number of reasons it was decided early on that there'd only be three weeks this season, as opposed to four during previous years. It was a fairly quick season, but we got quite a bit of things done.
In Area A we...
So, the second week of excavations of the third season at Tel Tibneh has come and gone.
Here's a rundown of our progress:
We were joined this week by students from an Israeli teachers' college, which doubled and maybe tripled our manpower. On one hand, it was a lot of added work for the staff...
As I've tried for the last couple of years, here's a summary of the first week of the third season (and likely the last) of my department's excavations at Tel Tibneh in southwestern Samaria:
This season's main goal is finding other remnants of the hypothesized monumental Herodian-period...
To those who may remember, last year I took part in a full month of archeological excavations at Tel Tibneh in southwestern Samaria and summarized the developments at the end of every week or the middle of the next one. Unfortunately pictures were lost during the fairly-recent software change...