Karak Resources Project 2009: CSI-Mudaybi

Hello,

Today I thought I would try to show each person at work on the site, so you can see the variety of activities that happen each day.

I thought that I would label this entry "CSI Mudaybi" because we have two burials that we are excavating. Below you can see a close view of a skull and then the complete view of an articulated skeleton that was half in our bulk.

This skeleton was found in Field B in the square of Dr. Freidbert Ninow of Theologische Hochschule Friednensau, and Linda Perkins a school teacher from Georgetown, Kentucky. They are shown above working in their square.

Also in the Field B (the gate area) Dr. Ted Carruth of David Lispcomb University and Melissa Spong of Johnson Bible College have unearthed a bench area in front of the gate.

In Field A Dr. Michael Van Zant of Mount Vernon Nazarene University and Emily Saunders of Carson-Newman College are working on another burial in their square. ( the photo above)

Dr. Don Garner of Carson-Newman College and Emily Dew of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill are continuing to clear a locus in their square in Field A.

In Field D, Dr. Gerald Keown of Gardner-Webb University and Dr. Miriam Perkins of Emmanuel School of Religion, are working hard digging through a tumble of r0cks in Field A.

Here Prof. Valdecy Da Silva of Colegio Biblico and Hadassah Penwell of Johnson Bible College remove a bulk and reveal some loom weights and a grinding stone pictured below.

Also in Field D, John Mark Wade (second from the left) of Emmanuel School of Religion and his crew are working through a tumble rocks in this square that is a new one this season.

Our photographer Tim Snow of Catholic University of America moves around the site documenting our activites and progress.

Dr. John Foss, University of Tennessee, our soil scientist explains the use of the Munsell Soil Chart to Valdacy Da Silva.

Here Dr. Foss uses his auger to drill down in one of our squares to get a profile of the soil below.

Our surveyor Paul Mabry of South Puget Sound Community College and his survey crew are working on a topographic map of the site and the surrounding area.

Here is the survey crew working hard to map the site. (Ralph Carnathan, Knoxville, TN on the left and Wilbur Reid, Johnson Bible College on the right)

(from left to right) Maia, Hope, Ziad, Mary and "Queen" Noor Salamaeh

Today we were visited by friends of Dr. Miriam Perkins, they stayed at the site for a couple of hours and two budding archaeologists (Maia and Hope) joined in the excavation