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Excavation Opportunities 1985

Excavation Tactics and Strategy

Looking at a dig from a director’s viewpoint

BAR’s January/February issue traditionally contains a catalogue of exciting opportunities for inexperienced as well as experienced volunteers who want to participate in archaeological excavations. An article describing a volunteer’s experience on a dig is usually part of that annual BAR tradition.a This year, however, we’re going to look at the dig from the director’s viewpoint. While BAR volunteers will be thinking about the meaning of the past, enjoying the wonderful air and sun and sky of the land of Israel, wondering when a blister will pop, and hoping to make the find of the season with the next stroke […]

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Footnotes

1.

See the following in BAR “Thoughts in the Dirt at Dan,” BAR 10:01, sidebar, by Daniel S. Wolk; “A Volunteer on the Road,” BAR 09:01, sidebar, by Sara Aurant; “The Volunteer’s Contribution to Archaeology and Vice Versa,” BAR 08:01, by Ellsworth E. Rosen.

2.

Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land (Jerusalem: Massada Press, Ltd., 1969).

3.

The Philistines and Their Material Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1982), 310 pp., $45.00.

4.

See the following articles by Rachel Hachlili in BAR: “Ancient Burial Customs Preserved in Jericho Hills,” BAR 05:04; “The Saga of the Goliath Family—As Revealed in their Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Tomb,” BAR 09:01, by Rachel Hachlili and Ann Killebrew.

5.

The Answers Lie Below: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Edmund Toombs, edited by Henry O. Thompson (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1984). A festschrift is a work published in honor of a senior scholar by his or her colleagues and students.