From Week Two of Dr. Scott Stripling's excavations:
an intact Iron Age saucer oil lamp
a mendable bag jar from the Roman era
a bronze arrow head
a decorative ceramic pomegranate
hundreds of sherds related to several Middle Bronze Age storage jars and pitho
a number of small kitchen vessels such as grinding stones
sling stones
multiple rows of a MB III wall
the remnants of two MBII storage jars
a scarab (this is now the third scarab found to date)
a fully intact glacis/rampart to the city in Square AG27 as well as the remnants of the fallen mud brick wall just east of Smith’s square. A number of MB pottery sherds embedded in the glacis helped date the wall to that period.
30 coins, which included 10 coins from the Danish/Finkelstein dump. Our grand total for two weeks is 53. Other metal finds include a bronze chisel, a sword or dagger point, an iron ring, and an assortment of sandal tacks.
the wet sifting work yielded a number of small finds such as Roman glass, beads, and stone vessel fragments
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Please read my most recent blog post,
which is than one day old:
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Who are the Palestinians?
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/06/who-are-palestinians.html
Two pointa:
Mr. Cohen sort of raids other people's blog posts. All I have here are archaeological finds, not a geo-political analysis.
IN any case, two points:
a) a Palestinian nationality was created only in July 1925 by the British Mandate, and for the Jews although all residents could of course become citines of this nationality, which they did.
b) until fairly late in the Mandate period, the official local Arab demand was to be reunified with Syria as Palestine was thought be Southern Syria. If it weren't for the Zionists, there'd be no Palestine.
This post has been included in my latest blog roundup. Thanks for blogging.
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