Last Week of Excavation

Greetings,

Above is a view of Don Garner enjoying a slice of watermelon during our second breakfast.

Here are four of the "Kansas City 6", students from Mid-America Nazarene University from left to right, Megan Love, in the back Crystalyn Oswald, in the front Byran Love, and in the hat A. J. Fry.


Gerald Keown is also enjoying our typical second breakfast treat.

Here is an overview of Area B this morning.


Today was the first day at the site for the "Kansas City 6". Here is Linda Perkins with A. J. Fry, a student at Mid-America Nazarene University, in Area B, the gate area. A. J. helped to uncover part of the Iron Age gate.


Also working in Area B is Bryan Love another student at Mid-America Nazarene University. He is working to clear one of the gate chambers of the debris which has blown in over the eight years since we worked the site.

All over the site we have many large stones that are too big to move so we must break them up. Everyone gets involved with the work, here Melissa Spong uses the sledge hammer on a a big 'hajar" (rock). Linda Perkins an A. J. Fry look on.

Linda Perkins takes her turn at the big rock, while A. J. Fry and Melissa Spong look on in Area B.

Here in Area D, Crystalyn Oswald from Mid American Nazarene University (center) joins the work with Gerald Keown and Miriam Perkins.

Also in Area D here is Jacob Isbell a student at Mid America Nazarene University working with Hadassah Penwell.

In Area A Megan Love a student from Mid American Nazarene Univerity (left) joins Don Garner and Emily Dew.

Also in Area here is the crew, left to right Emily Saunders, Dr. Randall Cloud, professor at Mid America Nazarene University who joins the work of Mike VanZant.

Here is a photo of our off-site survey crew. Dr. Karen Borstad and Jihad Haroun. Dr. Borstad is searching for evidence of roads in the Karak area.

Here is our surveyor still hard at work at the site with his total station.

This is Dr. Miriam Perkins of Emmanuel School of Religion who is holding an Iron Age amulet that she found in her square in Area D.

Here is a closer view of the amulet which has a hole drilled through it so it could be carried on a string.

Again it is late and I must get up at 3:45 AM.

Remember you can always view all of the posts at this address http://krp2009.blogspot.com
You can contact me at wineland@kcu.edu

John Wineland
Karak, Jordan