Nelson Glueck School of Archaeology at the Hebrew Union College, 1964-1974
These pictures were made by Dan P. Cole. In late July 1966, after the conclusion the Shechem digging season, Cole passed through the Mandelboam Gate from Jordanian Jerusalem to Israel along with several others of the Shechem junior staff to form the core senior staff of the Hebrew Union College Gezer Expedition under the leadership of Bill Dever. In 1966 and 1968 he was field director of Field II (report published in Gezer II). In 1969, ’70 and ’71 Cole was field director of Flield VI NW (report published in Gezer IV) and in 1972 and ’74 assistant to the new director, Joe Seger. His role in ’72 and ’74 involved being a roaming consultant to the field directors, sharing with Joe the initial pottery sorting-and-dating and taking visitors and visiting groups on tours of the fields.
Gezer; Arab village abandoned in 1940s, stone walls disintegrating. (1966, ID: cColepvarious048, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI; The Banter in this area got so bawdy it earned an X rating. (1971, ID: cColepGezer092, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camps; Someone painted flowers on the tarp of the smelly outhouse. (1971, ID: cColepGezer091, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; six male volunteers take a break while female wields big pick. (1988, ID: cColepGezer090, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camp; Lunch in dining shed with Yigael Yadin, Cole in background. (1968, ID: cColepGezer089, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; Yigeal Yadin (in blue shirt) with senior staff viewing Field I. (1968, ID: cColepGezer088, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld II; Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist general (with pipe) touring the excavations with Director William Dever (left) and field supervisor (Cole). (1968, ID: cColepGezer087, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld V; Volunteers here are digging two probes alongside Bronze Age masseboth (cultic “pillars”), these two are 12 feet high. (1968, ID: cColepGezer086, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld V; Cultic “High Place” uncoverd by McCalister (1902-07) and re-buried was re-exposed for more careful study (volunteers for scale). (1968, ID: cColepGezer085, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; Teams digging occupation layers inside MB city wall at left; mid-morning shade-break shed outside wall. (1969, ID: cColepGezer083, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; Mid-morning shade break. (1967, ID: cColepGezer084, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; Teams in row of 4 areas digging occupation layers inside and outside MB city wall, to be seen between the two pairs of workers. (1968, ID: cColepGezer082, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; Volunteer standing atop boulder courses of Bronze Age wall; to right is burned collapsed mud-brick form upper courses. (1967, ID: cColepGezer081, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld IV; Trowel is on mud-brick over stone course of MB city wall; to right is burned collapsed mud-brick from upper courses. (1973, ID: cColepGezer080, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; 1ste season of new excavations viewed from SE of the tell; dirt mounds from 1902-09 excavations surround new trench. (1966, ID: cColepGezer079, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Jerusalem; On weekends most volunteers visited Jerusalem or headed for beaches at Ashdod or Tel Aviv. (1970, ID: cColepGezer078, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camp; Evening fellowship in dining shed. (1968, ID: cColepGezer077, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camp; Evening lecture in dining shed (this evening Nelson Glueck, noted archaeologist & president of Hebrew Union College). (1968, ID: cColepGezer076, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Workroom; Geologist Reuben G. Bullard brought a new expertise to our onsite study of excavated soil layers an materials. (1966, ID: cColepGezer075, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI; Volunteer scales in full field photo after some balks removed. (1969, ID: cColepGezer074, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI; Volunteers providing scales for record photo after some balks removed. (1969, ID: cColepGezer073, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld III; Six volunteers hold up cloth to shade area to be photographed. (1970, ID: cColepGezer072, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld III; Occupation surface being brushed carefully before photography. (1968, ID: cColepGezer071, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld III; Volunteer clearing dirt from 18th c. BCE wall plaster. (1971, ID: cColepGezer070, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld II; Mid-morning shade break; marked-off space for pottery buckets. (1968, ID: cColepGezer069, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI; Drawings, with exact elevations, were made of each feature. (1970, ID: cColepGezer067, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI; Drawings, with exact elevations, were made of each feature. (1970, ID: cColepGezer067, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld II; Area supervisor recording details of each operation. (1968, ID: cColepGezer066, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld II; Dirt was then hauled to a dumping zone at edge of the tell. (1968, ID: cColepGezer065, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld II; Dirt form potential occupational layers was sometimes sifted in extra search for smaller bones or objects which might have eluded the digger. (1968, ID: cColepGezer064, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld II; Buckets of excavated dirt were hoisted out of deep areas. (1968, ID: cColepGezer063, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; This volunteer was using a patish to shave a smooth vertical face at the balk, with aid from a plumb line held at the surface by another. (1968, ID: cColepGezer062, Source: slide Repository: NPAPH-project Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld II; Volunteer using a patish to cut from one surface to the next lower one. (1968, ID: cColepGezer061, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I; When a big pick was needed, there was no sex discrimination. (1966, ID: cColepGezer060, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld II; Most used tool was the flat edge of a hand-pick (patish). (1966, ID: cColepGezer059, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Field II; Cole is kneeling here with one of the 4 area teams in his field. Unlike Shechem team workers were volunteers. (1966, ID: cColepGezer058, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Field I; Our digging “fields” usually consisted of 4 areas. The supervisor of this area is standing at left, while one of the crew of six is entering information. (1967, ID: cColepGezer057, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Field I; Our digging “fields” usually consisted of 4 areas. The supervisor of this area is standing at left, while one of the crew of six is entering information. (1967, ID: cColepGezer057, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camp; Canvas-covered pottery shed, potsherd drying area, showers. (1966, ID: cColepGezer055, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camp; Cinder-block workrooms, bamboo dining area, sleeping tents. (1966, ID: cColepGezer054, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)
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