This week's archaeology Fieldwork in Focus comes from Eileen G. Ernenwein at the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas, who is heading up joint investigations at Tel Bet Yerah, Israel through the Cotsen Institute.
The Cotsen Insitute of Archaeology at UCLA is now accepting applications for a new field school in archaeological geophysics, to be held this summer at Tel Bet Yerah, Israel. The program will take place over the course of five weeks beginning June 26, 2010. Students will learn the fundamentals of archaeo-geophysical methods, which allow us to "see" archaeological features buried beneath the ground surface. Hands-on instruction in survey planning, data collection, processing, and interpretation will be given in the context of the ongoing Tel Bet Yerah Research and Excavation Project.
A student collects Ground-penetrating Radar data with the GSSI SIR-3000 system
Photo Credit: © Jason Herrmann
Dramatically situated on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel, Tel Bet Yerah is the site of a large fortified Early Bronze Age town. In 2010 we will explore a large expanse of the site where virtually nothing is known about the subsurface, and image areas where monumental structures and waterworks may be located. This field school will be held in conjunction with the traditional Archaeological Field School at Tel Bet Yerah, who will benefit from the discoveries made with geophysics, and also help guide the excavations.
Magnetometry data is collected with a Bartington Grad601 Fluxgate gradiometer system at the UNESCO world heritage site of Tiwanaku, Bolivia
Photo © Eileen Ernenwein
The Tel Bet Yerah archaeo-geophysical project will be held between June 26 and July 29, 2010; the costs include housing at Ohalo Manor hostel, meals during the work week (Sunday-Thursday), and transportation from the Ben Gurion airport on the initial day of the fieldwork. College credit is available through the UCLA Field School Program.
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