Hello,
It is Wednesday evening here in Harta. I am doing well my toe is much better. We have 2 more days left to finish my work in Area A on the Tell. I will be traveling to Amman on Friday and I will spend 2 nights at ACOR before I fly to London on Sunday morning.
We are digging probes adjancent to the wall of the church on the north and south sides. We are hoping to test the dating of the construction of the building. We also are probing beneath the mosaic floor that Gerald found in his square. This is to help us date the construction of the floor.
We have also found a lower floor in a near by square we are going to try and probe beneath it.
We have to make some decisions because since I am leaving there is not much time to continue the work in the area.
I think we will answer some questions but also raise more questions in the process.
Gerald had to break through his mosaic floor so we could pottery beneath the floor in order to date it. It is painful to break through an ancient floor that has been in place since the late 6th century but archaeology is destruction. In order to find out more information we some times have to remove the later material. He place a small probe beneath the floor, 1 meter by about 1/2 meter.
More later,
John Wineland
Harta, Jordan
It is Wednesday evening here in Harta. I am doing well my toe is much better. We have 2 more days left to finish my work in Area A on the Tell. I will be traveling to Amman on Friday and I will spend 2 nights at ACOR before I fly to London on Sunday morning.
We are digging probes adjancent to the wall of the church on the north and south sides. We are hoping to test the dating of the construction of the building. We also are probing beneath the mosaic floor that Gerald found in his square. This is to help us date the construction of the floor.
We have also found a lower floor in a near by square we are going to try and probe beneath it.
We have to make some decisions because since I am leaving there is not much time to continue the work in the area.
I think we will answer some questions but also raise more questions in the process.
Gerald had to break through his mosaic floor so we could pottery beneath the floor in order to date it. It is painful to break through an ancient floor that has been in place since the late 6th century but archaeology is destruction. In order to find out more information we some times have to remove the later material. He place a small probe beneath the floor, 1 meter by about 1/2 meter.
More later,
John Wineland
Harta, Jordan
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