by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 30, 2017 | Opinion
Talk to anybody about your participation in an archaeological dig, and at least one question is inevitable: “What did you find?” Or, its variation: “Did you find anything good?” No one would dig if they didn’t hope to find something, but...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 28, 2017 | Opinion
A highlight of digging with the Jezreel Expedition is the opportunity to spend some time living on a kibbutz. The first kibbutzim (the plural form) were formed in the early 1900s as part of the Zionist movement encouraging Jews to move into Palestine, and the movement...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 23, 2017 | Opinion
Archaeology has many facets, and all of them are important as we seek to interpret what we’re finding and how that speaks to us about a given site. In some cases, we can gather some information from texts such as the Bible or archives of royal records from...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 20, 2017 | Opinion
An archaeological expedition requires a number of things, beginning with a promising site (and permission to dig it), qualified directors, a strong staff, a bevy of volunteers (here known as team members) willing to pay their own way to do hard labor while following...
