Uploaded June 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
One Day's Haul: Each day of work in the field generates an enormous amount of material that must be processed for conservation and publication. The most common discovery is broken pottery (sherds) that were discarded by the ancient people. Sherds that we recover is washed by hand and laid out to dry in the sun.
Each sherd, even tiny ones, will be labeled with the information of its findspot. This information includes the year excavated, major grid & square number (marking its horizontal position on the tel), the layer number of the soil (for its position relative to known architecture), and its bucket number (for its vertical position within the layer).
Since pottery is known to have been used at specific times in history (for example the 1st half of the 3rd century), these sherds can than be used to date the architecture we are discovering.
One Day's Haul: Each day of work in the field generates an enormous amount of material that must be processed for conservation and publication. The most common discovery is broken pottery (sherds) that were discarded by the ancient people. Sherds that we recover is washed by hand and laid out to dry in the sun.
Each sherd, even tiny ones, will be labeled with the information of its findspot. This information includes the year excavated, major grid & square number (marking its horizontal position on the tel), the layer number of the soil (for its position relative to known architecture), and its bucket number (for its vertical position within the layer).
Since pottery is known to have been used at specific times in history (for example the 1st half of the 3rd century), these sherds can than be used to date the architecture we are discovering.
