the find of the season!

so, close to the very last day of digging for the season, i find something. well i've already mentioned that we've found alot of neat stuff in the past few weeks...pottery, bones, beads, towers, carbonated seeds, lythics, objects, walls, mortars, etc. but...

i found a scorpion.

if you can recall a previous blog post, i mentioned that when this day came, i would freak out. well the day came. and i didnt quiiite freak out...but i sure didnt go near the thing, and i enlisted manly help to excavate the little guy.

the scorpion was yellow. and about 6-7 centimeters long. ewwww. (sorry, didnt get a picture!) but even more amusing is that fact that when i think of deadly poisonous creatures, i think of clever cunning smooth sly things. however, in reality, scorpions--being deadly poisonous creatures--are in fact very clumsy and uncoordinated. baha. i can relate to scorpions in this sense.

anyway the scorpion story is not the find i actually wanted to tell you about...rather i choose to mentally think of the scorpion as my test. a guardian. an indiana jones challange that one must pass in order to unveil the true treasure. and pass i did (with the help of my male friend).

a little while after the scorpion encounter, i came across the only metal thing that's been found this season!
it's a chisel.
orrrr it might have tiny groves in it which would make it a broken dagger. we're not sure yet until it gets cleaned. but we think it's a chisel.
it's bronze. orrrr it might be copper. but we think it's bronze; you see part of it was green from being oxidized. as opposed to a red, rusty color if it was iron.
and it's at least from the Iron Age if not the Bronze Age itself (as our site is early bronze age), but we think late Bronze Age. which is about 2000 BC--so, thus i potentially found a 4000 year old bronze chisel. !! woo!

i'm excited about it and it's a really neat find. we dont have all the equipment and processes handy to clean it properly, so we want to take it back to the States. however, we think that the Jordan Department of Antiquities will snatch it up, keep it, and it will most likely eventually end up in a museum here in Jordan.

but anyway that's my indiana jones "find of the season!", as it was called, story. it's been interesting to not only see how excited i was about the find and knowing that what i was holding was literally thousands of years old, but also seeing other people's reactions and their interests peak. everyone at the site wanted to know about the event and what this could mean for archeology. and i was thrilled to share.

but how much more excited should i be knowing i have a treasure far greater than an ancient chisel...? i have a faith that i hold in my heart and the love of a God that i hold in my soul. these are timeless--far beyond the boundaries of centuries and milliniums. if others knew about these treasures i have, what would their reactions be? would their interest peak? as a chisel could mean a great deal for archeologists, so a pure and holy faith could mean a great deal to beings built for eternity. i should be thrilled to share my findings.

~  so let us daily shout from the rooftops that we have a treasure! we have an ancient but never-changing God who wants us to be overjoyed about a relationship with Him--so overjoyed that we ache to share the story of the "find of a lifetime".  ~