First Entry of 2011
We have finished the first week of a brand new archaeological project. If you read the last entry or so from 2010, you’ll see that last year we closed out the University of South Florida Excavations at Sepphoris, which I co-directed during the final season. This year we are opening up a new site by surveying it in preparation for excavations planned to begin in 2012. I am directing the project, and David Fiensy of Kentucky Christian University is the Associate Director. The name of the site is Shikhin. I’ll talk more about the site later. The trip did not begin auspiciously, and since I have arrived in the country, things have gone about as I have come to expect. I have never missed a flight to Israel before, and certainly not with a student in tow. Now I have done both at the same time, and while Erica Thornton is certainly an easy travel companion, I don’t care to repeat the experience. In any case, we all arrived safely and all were greeted warmly by the hotel staff, who