Tel Kedesh and the Shed Folk

When most people think about archaeology, they focus on the fieldwork, the digging and the finding of artifacts in their context. But for me as registrar, my work starts when the artifacts come in out of the field and the process of recording continues. At Tel Kedesh this post excavation life of the artifacts has a team of people involved and below is a group shot of this group which I like to call the Shed Folk as we work in a converted garage shed!
In this picture I am on the left and as registrar, all non-ceramic finds pass through my hands when they come out of the field. Pottery has a different route and comes into the shed once the ceramicist Peter Stone, pictured kneeling on the right, has decided that they are worthy of inventory. I then pass these registered pots on to the conservators Suzanne Davis, standing on the right, and Meghan McFarlane standing in the middle. They mend the pots and treat the objects requiring specialized care. Once they have been cleaned and mended, they are ready for their closeup, and are photographed and then drawn by our artist Hannah Schnobrich, pictured standing second from left.
A special class of finds are the huge volume of animal bone which is studied by Richard Redding, pictured standing second from right. He washes and analyzes the huge quantity, which second to pottery is our most ubiquitous find from the excavation. This year he is teaching Emily Kaspari, pictured kneeling on the left, the ins and outs of bone identification.

It gets pretty hot in the shed and we keep ourselves going with music! I have been able to make a list of music which I have been introduced to from other people's ipods. This year I forgot my speakers and so the shed folk would like to thank Charlotte Maxwell-Jones for lending us her speakers.