Comments on: People of the Jordan Valley and Egypt’s First Dynasty-Ancient links? http://www.presentthepast.com/2009/09/people-of-the-jordan-valley-and-egypt%e2%80%99s-first-dynasty-ancient-links/ Keeping you up to date with archaelogy in the Middle East Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:30:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: israel tours http://www.presentthepast.com/2009/09/people-of-the-jordan-valley-and-egypt%e2%80%99s-first-dynasty-ancient-links/comment-page-1/#comment-334 israel tours Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:05:22 +0000 http://www.presentthepast.com/?p=267#comment-334 <strong>israel tours...</strong> Walk where Jesus walked! and then only you will understand how not to judge others until you have walked their footsteps. Experience the Holy Land.... israel tours…

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]]> By: Joyce http://www.presentthepast.com/2009/09/people-of-the-jordan-valley-and-egypt%e2%80%99s-first-dynasty-ancient-links/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Joyce Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:03:01 +0000 http://www.presentthepast.com/?p=267#comment-65 I participated in the 1964 Oriental Institute, U. Chicago dig at Beth Yerah. I don't believe a report on the sherds brought back to the Institute for analysis have ever been published, due in part to the untimely death of the person entrusted with their professional examination. My test pit revealed layers of ashes mixed with chicken bones: the remnants of many meals eaten by Hellenistic soldiers camped on this spot around the 4th c. BC. I am sure the soldiers were as tired of eating chicken as I was of finding the chicken bones. It is good to know there is now an archaeological park on the site. Perhaps this will allow the proper display of the very ancient grain silos there. Some small house foundations from about the late Chalcolithic or Early Bronze I era, as I recall, are now partially underwater in the Sea of Galilee. One must be careful wading into the Sea at this point, as there are numerous Neolithic flints on the bottom of the Sea which are still as sharp as the day they were made. I participated in the 1964 Oriental Institute, U. Chicago dig at Beth Yerah. I don't believe a report on the sherds brought back to the Institute for analysis have ever been published, due in part to the untimely death of the person entrusted with their professional examination. My test pit revealed layers of ashes mixed with chicken bones: the remnants of many meals eaten by Hellenistic soldiers camped on this spot around the 4th c. BC. I am sure the soldiers were as tired of eating chicken as I was of finding the chicken bones. It is good to know there is now an archaeological park on the site. Perhaps this will allow the proper display of the very ancient grain silos there. Some small house foundations from about the late Chalcolithic or Early Bronze I era, as I recall, are now partially underwater in the Sea of Galilee. One must be careful wading into the Sea at this point, as there are numerous Neolithic flints on the bottom of the Sea which are still as sharp as the day they were made.

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