has anyone done any voluntary archaeological digs in israel
or jordan? any info please.
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If by voluntary, if you mean to volunteer at a dig
and are not charged any money for room and board, I
haven't heard of any digs in Israel that do this. Most
open digs are rather expensive as funding is rather
hard to come by.
If you can pay money for room and board and would
like to dig in Israel check out this website:
www.qal.berkeley.edu/~teldor
for a dig that is open to the public.
It is very
Like lukelin said, these "volunteer" digs tend to be
expensive - you must pay for accomodations, food, etc. You
may be staying in a tent, dorm, kibbutz, or fancy hotel.
Most importantly, make sure you know what kind of work you
will be doing. Novices frequently spend 2-3 weeks at an
excavation site doing nothing but carrying dirt from one
place to another - and are understandably dissapointed.
After 3-4 days of such menial work you should ask the
director of the excavation for a more substantial role.
The magazine "Biblical Archaeology Review" has an annual
issue with listings for two or three dozen sites where
volunteers are needed.
My wife has workekd on digs in Israel several times. A
couple of times, she just showed up at the Department of
Antiquities in Jerusalem and said "I'd like to work on a
dig." In both instances, she was referred to a dig near
Jerusalem and began working the same day. One was an
excavation of a Roman villa on the outskirts of town; the
other was a rescue dig excavating a Roman cemetery within a
stone's throw of the Hilton. Of course, she had to find and
pay her own room and board, but this was a lot less
expensive than some of the digs advertised in the glossy
magazines.
thanks for the info
I almost went to Jordan this summer, but decided on Cyprus
instead. Check out this one if you're interested, and
e-mail me if you're interested in Cyprus! I leave in a week
and a half!
http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Anthro/classes/tlevy/
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returned to the UK only to realise I'd well and truely got
the travel bug real bad. Well, I moved to Germany to work
and then over to Holland. After that I went to Egypt and
then Thailand where I stayed for three and a half years.
Now I,m back in the Uk again and I'm finding it hard to
settle. Can anyone help me with information on voluntary
organisations in Asia where I might find some interesting
projects that I can become involved in? Looking through
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looking for people who are very highly qualified and folk
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