2010 EXCAVATIONS AT KHIRBAT ISKANDAR, JORDAN: May 20 – June 28
Application deadline January 31, 2010. Costs for volunteers for room and board: $2200 per 5 weeks room & board. Minimum length of stay for volunteers is 2 weeks. Airfare is not included in the price, but we will have a group flight to keep down costs. There will be optional weekend trips, as well as a trip to Egypt at the end of the dig. Plans are being made for a possible trip to Syria over the mid-session break. Volunteers will be housed in a delightful hotel in the nearby town of Madaba, two per room, meals, swimming pool and within walking distance of downtown. There are 3 academic credits offered for the field school, at a cost of $540/credit from Gannon University. Please address all payments to "Gannon University - Khirbat Iskandar Expedition".
Directors, Dr. Suzanne Richard (Gannon University) and Dr. Jesse. C. Long, Jr. (Lubbock Christian University). For more information, please contact Dr. Suzanne Richard at Gannon University MS#43, 109 University Square, Erie, PA, telephone 814-871-5605; email: Richard@gannon.edu; fax: 814-871-7652
Some important finds in past seasons: the only EB IV gate and one of the earliest bronze spearheads in the southern Levant; a range of artifacts and restorable vessels from two destruction levels. The objective for 2010 is lateral exposure of the urban settlement within the fortifications.
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