The pictures below are of my section J7. I was attempting to excavate to the foundation of a Cannanite temple and was not expecting to find human remains. The human jaw is from a young male. He lived here in the bronze age over 5,000 years ago. This temple is the largest in the Levant predating even the Egyptians as the first evidence of an organized city state in the Levant. The walls are monumental and a temple of this size for this period is unprecedented. We divide up the site into a grid and each section or Loci is 5x5 meters. I found out I may get recruited to do top plan and section drawings for it.



The other picture is on top of the Tel at 5am. This is the most enjoyable part of the day when the air is cool and the early morning dew on the Jezreel valley has not turned to humidity in the heat of the mid day sun. A cool breeze rushes through the palms breaking the silence. Every morning we are up at 4am and out digging by 5am. As the sun comes up over the valley we walk up the ramparts at the base of the Tel and through the ancient city gates. More battles were fought for this strategic piece of ground than anywhere else in the world. There is evidence of neolithic occupation the first organized city state was the Cannanites who were conquered by the Israelites untill they were destroyed by the Assyrians in 732bc. Israeli warplanes roar overhead late morning and afternoon in a formation of 2's usually f-15's and 16's. A reminder that More battles may be fought here in the future.



Our morning begins at 4am we dig untill 1pm and then head back to the Kibbutz to process the finds. We have afternoon class and the last lecture ends at 9pm. It is hard work digging and by the end of the day it is pure exhaustion.