When I told my friends that I planned to spend the summer of 1979 on an archaeological dig in Israel’s Negev Desert, I got one of two responses: “You’ve got to be crazy!” or “Gee, that sounds like a lot of fun!” Both turned out to be true. I had been to Israel twice before, participating in directed tours, but this time I had decided to fulfill a lifelong urge to indulge in an archaeological expedition. Carefully reading about the project possibilities in the March/April 1979 BAR, I was drawn to the section entitled “Rescue of Archaeological Sites in […]
