Monday, May 20, 2013
My condolences to the family. I was on a Tell Safut dig back in 82. I learned a log form him and still talk about the trip. I remember watching him and the other dig leaders sitting at a table at the school we lived at catagorizing pottery sherds. Bronze, Late Bronze, Bronze Late Bronze. I remember we dug up a what appeared to be a kitchen area or food storage area with 2 or 3 large cone shaped storage jars which were used to store grain and legumes/lentils. The next day the local help wrecked the dig site, smashed the jars. They thought we were digging for gold or treasure. Had great side trips to Petra and Jerash and some Roman outpost/fort in the middle of the deasert (nowhere).
