The dig anthropologist Neta is holding the jaw of an ancient Canaanite and the rest of the skull is in pieces in the blue tub. Over the course of a week we glued the whole thing back together with only a few pieces missing.

How exciting it is to hold that kind of history in your hands. What were her last words?

Here I am holding the skull in the last post before I cleaned it and treated it for preservation.

What a thrill it was to think about the individual and what kind of life he might have lived. He was about 35 years old when he died so had lived a full life for that time.

Another Skull

Here are two views of the same 3500 year old Canaanite skull that I excavated, cleaned up, and treated for preservation.

Notice what a great set of teeth this man had. All the the teeth found in that tomb had one thing in common - NO Cavities. Reason is there was no sugar in their diet.

Digging Up Bones

This is one of the many skulls I dug up in that Canaanite tomb. This one was in difficult condition and was the only body part of this particular person that we found. Often when a new body was brought down into the tomb the others were pushed aside in all directions. Lots of bones but only a few articulated.