by lochtefe | Aug 9, 2014 | Research Blog
I may take no credit for this particular composition. You will have to speak to Leif and Nick Gantt about that one. It involves stinging bees, spiky plants, blisters, and dirt. It’s cynical and snarky, but in a good way. I have had the unique experience of...
by redelfs | Aug 9, 2014 | Research Blog
I began this week the same way I did last week: I kept digging deeper into my pit in order to find the bedrock foundation for the temple and retaining walls. And I seemingly found it on Tuesday, and so I spent my last day in the trench cleaning off/ out what appeared...
by mclellan | Aug 9, 2014 | Research Blog
If I could describe Turkey in one word, it would be recycled. And I don’t assign some of the common connotations associated with this word like hand-me-down or worn. Recycled, in the way I am using it, instead holds connotations of rejuvenated, reinvented, well...
by irons | Aug 7, 2014 | Research Blog
It’s been an exciting week at the northeast temple. We seem to have hit a particularly rich layer: although the soil color and consistency have not changed, in recent days we’ve seen an uptick in exciting finds, including a small amphora, two small lamps,...
by Zoey | Aug 6, 2014 | Research Blog
by dynneson | Aug 6, 2014 | Research Blog
I spent most of week three working with the lovely ladies up at the temple, in the north trench. The north temple trench is formed by two retaining walls that we think were used to protect the temple from alluvium washed down the hill side, and a third wall that...