is archeology, if only because I've never been engaged in active, very special. This is particularly true for Biblical Archaeology. Not only because it - it could be a Challenger to drink the recommended 5-8 liters per day (over 30 ° in the shade in Israel are, after all not uncommon) or because some of those responsible will be armed (of course not about us - at least for me volunteers to "Motivate", but to protect ourselves from possible attacks), but also because the trench itself does not seem to be so easy.
Even common sense tells you that would at savage top-los-Gebuddele the scientific usefulness to zero. Therefore, it is neatly dug at selected points in 5 m squares. Here, however, each side is allowed a margin of about 50 cm, so that is placed between two such squares, an approximately 1 m wide wall. These walls are used, inter alia, determine the layers, which is dug in, (see these layers using different colors of the earth in the wall). The finds in the squares is said it is now mostly ceramics and this almost always about shards. Kindly, but exceptions prove the rule. The advantage of pottery shards, however: they can be quite easily recognized. This applies certainly not to turn on all findings. Similar to recognize good, although much less frequently, are probably still the highest bone (both animal and human) and architecture. The latter, however, even if it is vertical - ie in the form of walls. But even here there are limitations: namely, as in the Bronze and Iron Age, usually only the foundation of stone, all the rest of a house, however, consisted of baked mud bricks, but this today - if at all - only are to some degree, they can often be difficult to recognize. Even more difficult is the whole, but in a horizontal architecture, eg floors. These are usually only visible on light discoloration of the soil and therefore require very careful eye. But if you're similar in excavations on wells, cisterns s will encounter even more complicated: the basic rule of Archaeology, namely to uncover the various layers of earth meticulously from top to bottom one by one, then that is completely thrown into confusion. As wells and the like so extend into the depth and hence usually by several layers of earth, but creep someday were hollow, they quite naturally also potentiellerweise much younger artifacts. Therefore it is necessary in this specific case, first of all dug further into the depths, before you can work on the surrounding area further.
And all this is of course just the beginning work, the addition of the "pottery washing" and "pottery reading" and, of course - much more complex and extensive - is the analysis of all finds.
Well, then,
ora et labora!
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