This is my second day off on the Tel Kedesh excavations in Israel and Meghan McFarlane has just helped me set up this blog. Since she has experience with blogs (visit her blog at Involving the Senses), she has volunteered to initiate me into the joys of blogging!
This is the third season I have been involved in the Tel Kedesh excavations, serving as registrar. I came first to Tel Kedesh in 2006 and then again in 2008. These excavations were the first time I was stationed in the lab rather than working in the field and it was a great transition for me. But now I love working in the registry and seeing all the finds cross my desk from the entire site. I also love working with the conservators and artists as I feel we are a team which prepare the objects for their debut on the world stage of academia!
In coming blogs I will be sharing my experiences on the dig while I am here, and later stories of my past experiences in the field as well as my adventures guiding tours for the travel company Odyssey Adventures in Archaeology, a company for which I am a partner with Willie Rowbotham and Gayle Gibson.
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Dear Meg,
ReplyDeleteA very nice letter of its own; and I enjoyed traveling with you in this "site" very much! Keep writing! I am really looking forward to your tales about the Odessey Adventures as well. Your stories are like small short stories in an anthology. I think this new site will be a nice way for you to keep a journal: A wise investment of your time. Keep writing. I will read your "anthology" regularly. Great work! Love Katherine
The photographs are excellent and the posts make an enjoyable read. I think it's time you updated the world on your adventures this past summer.
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