biblical archaeology

Hi, Theus. I`m green with envy that you had the chance to dig Megiddo.
Currently, we are are viewing a TV series on Finkelstein`s excavations at Megiddo and it looks a long-term project. I think archaeology has learnt its lesson with making hasty assumptions about artifacts and now is a bit more circumspect about conclusions. Although a few still fly off the handle in what must be a tedious job. I notice Qumran has now descended to the status of a pottery works. A far cry from the exclusive religious community it was once thought to be. Are you heading back to Megiddo?

Thanks for the link, but my digging these days relates to native gold. I`m assembling a list of artifacts from the Qumran settlement and (separately)the Caves, and looking for any connection. E.g. any copper scraps from the Treasure Scroll, though what a poor religious community (or a pottery plant) might have in common with the Scroll list is debatable. Whether any of the inkwells from the settlement contained red ink as a number of Scrolls used. Remains of the blue-bordered cloth wraps in both places, etc. etc. Odd that the caves behind the settlement never yielded any scroll scraps, but then those Bedu are thorough. :-)