The Dig-for-a-Day Experience

The underground chambers were filled with the sounds of the crunching of small picks against the dirt floors and the thud of earth dumped into buckets. Voices of a dozen children and their parents accompanied warnings not to swing picks at each other and to use the buckets assigned to each room. Discoveries of pottery sherds and bone slivers reminded us that we were doing real archaeological work. Unruly as this particular group was, they were “workers,” helping to expose the remnants of life inside and beneath dwellings from 2,200 years ago. On this winter morning at Maresha, not […]