Jezreel Expedition Blog Entry June 4, 2012 by Emily Mella
Today was our second day of surveying, and I was in charge
of filling out locus sheets for the morning. While my drawing skills leave
something to be desired, I enjoyed filling out the forms and making sure that
we documented each feature that we came upon. After we recorded some easily
identifiable features, we plunged into an area of very thick brush and cacti to
see what we could find. Some areas were full of prickles and difficult to
cross, but we were able to uncover some interesting things, including two
mosaic floors, lots of evidence of quarrying, and channels cut into the bedrock.
After breakfast, we took a tour of the tel and enjoyed seeing the remains of
the tower and examining the many pottery sherds that we found on the surface.
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| Visiting "Jezebel's Tower" on the tel. |
This afternoon we returned to the lower area of the hillside and came across a
dead cow that had inexplicably gone unnoticed the day before - most of us
didn't even notice it until we were almost on top of it. We documented quite a
few caves and several cup marks cut into the rock, as well as more evidence of
quarrying. We surveyed the other half of the field, and Sarah and I got stuck
on an overhang while looking at a neat cave. The two of us ended up having to
backtrack and take the long way back to the others. After more measuring and
documenting (I recorded GPS coordinates this afternoon), Mike and I went
searching for our missing brush, which somehow ended up near the dead cow.
Overall, it was another hot, tiring, itchy, interesting, sunny, eventful, and
successful day!
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