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...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 18, 2017 | Opinion
Our first day of participation in the Jezreel Expedition involved no digging, but lots of orientation. The 2017 dig began two weeks ago, and has two weeks to go. The ancient city of Jezreel sits on a high knoll among the foothills of the Gilboa mountain range —...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 17, 2017 | Opinion
What do you do with a day in the Old City of Jerusalem when the sites you want to see are closed? While waiting to meet up with the team we’ll be joining to dig in Jezreel, Susan and I had a free day in Jerusalem. How often does that happen? We took a cab from...
