Here is Area B. They will contusion excavating in the building where our faience head was found.

Elias Benichou, Sam Rubens, and Yiyi Tang enjoy the pool after a hard day in the field!

Contributing to our excavations this week were 40 college-age students who belonged to a special 2-week Taglit (Birthright Israel) program that included a week on our archaeological dig.

Our team this week included three Hungarians: Prof. Laszlo Egeresi (middle) with his students Norbert Becker (left) and Hajnal Kovacs (right).

ABM team members at the end of Week 3. Countries represented this week include USA, Canada, China, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, and Spain.

Sunday tour of the Golan Heights with 16 of team members. Photo taken at the Banias Waterfalls.

Chandler Collins, Administrative Dean at Jerusalem University College, found this nice scarab in a 9th century BCE context. So far, the signs are illegible due to dirt on the belly side, but it will be cleaned.

Abbie Mantor of Asbury Theological Seminary excavates an Iron Age I destruction with Tyrian (wavy band) pithoi and whole burnt mudbricks in the debris.

Chris Chandler of Asbury Theological Seminary holds one of the broken Iron I pithoi where you can see the wavy band decoration. Carbon-14 dates this destruction to the 10th century BCE.

Chris Chandler and Abbie Mantor find cult objects from the late Iron Age I. Not just one but at least two chalices. The complete one is visible in front and the bowl of another one behind it.

Our end of the season staff dinner tonight with the party favors courtesy of Carroll and Jeff Kobs.

Have a look at our article on Abel Beth Maacah in the current issue of Near Eastern Archaeology. From a Fortified Canaanite City-State to "a City and a Mother" in Israel: Five Seasons of Excavation at Tel Abel Beth Maacah academia.edu/37090651/From_… via Academia

Johnson Family Excavation Scholarship abel-beth-maacah.org/index.php/john…

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Abel Beth Maacah, Area B. First day of Season 7. Cleaning interior of 9th century BCE building before starting to dig.