Digging Up Armageddon by Eric H. Cline

Author:Eric H. Cline
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

FIG. 38. Aerial view, looking west, in 1937 (after Loud 1948: frontispiece; courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)

Of course, it is one thing to sit in an office in Chicago and propose areas to dig at a site thousands of miles away that one has visited only briefly, and quite another to actually put it into practice. Thus when Loud, plus the Lamons and the Linds, arrived in Haifa two months later, just a few days after Parker and Shipton, they all went out on the mound and promptly tweaked the locations of the three areas a bit.

In the 6 October entry in his field diary, Loud noted that the “north dig,” as they called it, would be located to the west of the main city gate, rather than to the east of the gate as he had first envisioned. It was to be an exploratory trench five meters wide and fifty meters long. The “east dig” would also be a trench five meters wide but seventy-five meters long. It would cut across the eastern part of the mound, rather than the western part as he had first suggested—they decided to move it in the hopes of catching “something important which may lie in this choicest part of the mound.” And, finally, within a week of beginning to dig, they decided to make the “south dig” a five-meter-wide trench also, so that it would be five meters wide by sixty meters long. In the end, “north” became Area AA, “east” became Area BB, and “south” remained Area CC; the areas still retain these designations today. Loud noted that day, “These are so spaced that in one of them we should find the important section of the city.”5 As it happened, they were destined to find interesting remains in two of the three during the coming seasons.

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