Pea-sized wood C-14 dating that
has already been consumed + Islamic/Syrian Literature
Archaeology
Guideline
•“People do not live in square
holes in the ground”
sArchaeologists typically dig squares in various
sites down to bedrock
•“Archaeologists
are an arrogant sort. We claim to know a site and interpret it
from a very small window, often less than 10% of a
site. We miss so much, and yet this does not prevent us from drawing
sweeping conclusions from our tiny window.”
sThomas W. Davis, “Theory
and Method in Archaeology,” in The Future of
Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodology and Assumptions,” (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004), pp. 27-28.