Curling up into an archaeological ball

[theyellowhobbit]

I thought talking to Professor Galor from Brown would help me narrow down my choice of a summer program.

Instead, all she could do was tell me about her program.

So now the list is:

Bar Ilan- tel safi [1.5 hours from Jerusalem, religious kibbutz, optional davening is provided]
UNC- Yotvata [3+ hours from Jerusalem, right near my cousins' kibbutz, though. kosher food, best ice cream in the country, I may be half of the shomer shabbat population there]
Hebrew U- Tel Dor [near Haifa, so maybe 2 hours from Jerusalem, but Tova lives in Haifa, and yadfothgildloc will be doing the dig. And the accomodations are so cushy!]
Hebrew U also has one at tel-hazor
U Haifa- Hippos [near tiberias, staying at Ein Gev (an awesome youth hostile I stayed at on EIE) no work even friday morning, so shabbats in jerusalem would be quite doable]
Brown- apollonia [takes place the end of the summer, so visiting hungary on the way home wouldn't be so doable.]

Tel Dor, Hippos, and Yotvata seem to have the most interesting sites.

I'm never going to be able to figure this out!

Comments

[alanscottevil.livejournal.com]

Is tel safi ancient Gat? My friend Micah G-S has been there the past two summers. I don't know if he's going back this year though.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

yeah, it is.

is this micah who was at your house when I was there?

did he enjoy the dig? is there interesting stuff there?

[i suppose he must have liked it to go back multiple summers...]

[alanscottevil.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Not sure. If it was short, light-haired Micah from Baltimore, then yeah. If it was tall, dark-haired Micah from Silver Spring, then nope.
He really liked it, and still has a link in his IM profile to a news article about a major find from there last summer.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

could you send me the link?

[alanscottevil.livejournal.com]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1131367063187

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

thanks!