Week 2: Back to Work

After resting over our "weekend" it was time to get back to work on Sunday. Today I will feature a variety of scenes of our work.

Adam Bean is a first time worker at KRP. He is graduate of Johnson University and Immanuel Christian Seminary and is headed to Johns Hopkins University in the fall.

Here are two first time participants Ronaldo Denuna (left), Amy Stickler (center), both students at Garner Webb University with veteran Michael VanZant, professor at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, listening announcments before our evening meal.

This is Jerome Prinston, profession at Johnson University, another first time member of the team. I think he must normally spend his summers working for the Secret Service.

Here is the project leader Jerry Mattingly, Johnson University and our driver Hussein, both have worked with KRP since 1995.

Here is a view from the site looking out over the Fajj. The fajj served as a trade route in antiquity.

Here are two first time workers, Dwayne Howell, professor at Campbellsville University and Jerome Prinston, professor at Johnson University.

Here is part of the crew looking over the work at the site. From left to right in the front row, Adam Bean, Josh Carter, Philip Eubanks, Thomas Wowros, Gerald Keown, second row left to right, Ronaldo Denuna, and Melissa Hope.

We travel by bus to the site but in pinch we could ride camels!

Here we can see some camels in the Fajj. Many camels are brought to Jordan from Saudi Arabia in the summer because by comparsion Jordan is cooler and has more vegetation for the camels to eat. The camel is sometimes called the "ship of the desert" because it is so well designed for life in the desert and was used as transportation for humans and goods. Bedouins use the camel for many purposes, of course for transportation but also they eat the milk of the camel, use camel skins to make their tents, and camel is considered by many to be special meal for certian holidays (the "turkey of the desert"?) 

Here sitting on the tower of the Iron Age gate at the site is left to right, Michael VanZant, Leslie Bean, and Melissa VanZant.

It gets a little dusty at the site as we can see from this photo of Jody Owens, professor at Johnson University.

(Special note: The above photo is NOT staged.) Here we see, holding the sledgehammer, John Mark Wade, librarian at Emmanel Christian Seminary.*

Here in a more familiar pose is John Mark Wade.

To end on a happier note, here is the sunrise over the Fajj as seen from the site.

John Wineland
Jordan

* Editor's note [Editors have been pressed to print things since at least the time of Guttenberg. As editor of this modest endeavour, I have prided myself, up to this point, in the fact that I have always strived to avoid "yellow journalism." However I regret to inform you that I too have finally been force to yield to the pressures all editors face. (You would think that a librarian would be more sensitive to the issues of censorship and propaganda.)]