Sorry everyone, posting pictures is proving to be much more difficult than I anticipated. Internet is sporadic at best here, I can't even get online with my laptop.
Anyway, we got to Jalul at 5am and right away put up our Canadian flag! There are quite a lot of flags represented here this year; Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, Croatia, Belguim, and Canada! We also fly an Andrews University flag and of course a huge Jordanian one.
After our flag was securely hammered into the ground we gathered up our tools for the morning (wheel barrow, hoes, large picks, small picks, brushes, dust pans, guffas etc.) and set about marking off our Baulks. Baulks are a meter wide and run the perimeter of the square in which you excavate.
We started digging in the south-eastern diagonal of the square to find the floor that we discovered at the end of last season. The floor was covered by two loci of dirt and we broke through to the surface by second breakfast (about 9:30). The surface would be best described as similar to a gravel driveway. It Is made up of many small pebbles, ceramics, even a few bones are wedged in between stones. I'm not sure at this point if we will keep the floor or break through to see what lies beneath the floor.
After second breakfast we started digging on the other diagonal of the square in hopes of finding the continuation of a wall discovered in the square North of ours. Sadly we found only dirt with hardly any pottery. Perhaps tomorrow we will dig deeper and find something.
Archaeologist Mantra: "Hopefully we'll find it tomorrow!". Lol goodnight!
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