Dig Opportunities

Tell Halif
(photo by C. Holland, Lahav Research Project)
 

General Guides &Lists
Digs in the Middle East & Eastern Mediterranean
Jordan    Israel  Syria    Egypt
 

Current Excavations - Archaeology Net
Listing of current excavation links from Archaeology.about.com. Links to sites around the world

Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities (from the Archaeological Institute of America)

Fieldwork Directory

UREP - University of California Research Expeditions Program

ASOR's list of Excavations in the Middle East

 Dig Opportunities --Middle East & Eastern Mediterranean

NEAS DIGS

Digs in Israel

volunteers sifting for artifacts
(photo courtesty of Combined Caesarea Expeditions)

Archaeological Excavations 1999

Listing of excavation opportunities in Israel. Outdated but should provide helpful starting places for those looking for the coming season.

Lahav Research Project (Tel Halif)

Headquartered at Mississippi State University, senior director Joe D. Seger.  Besides information for the coming season, contains background on the dig and pictures from 1999 season.

Ashkelon Excavation Information

Major Philistine coastal site, directed by Lawrence J. Stager, Harvard University.  Periods cover Bronze Age to Crusader.

Combined Caesarea Excavations--What's New

News on latest developments connected with the excavations of Herod's largest seaport in the eastern Mediterranean and one of the most important provincial cities of the empire. Roman/Byzantine to Crusader.Also contains dig reports and information on excavation participation.

Cana of the Galilee

Welcome to the Hazor Excavations

Megiddo

Main page on this famous site from Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology directed by Israel Finklestein and Barry Levine.

The Megiddo Expedition 2000

Penn State University's volunteer information page.

Megiddo (Villanova Univ.)

Villnova University's program at Megiddo.

Tel Rehov 2000

            & nbsp; Directed by Dr. Amihai Mazar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Tel Zafit

Sha'ar Hagolan Archaeological Project

Neolithic site in the Golan directed by Yosef Garfinkle.

USF Excavations at Sepphoris Home Page

Directed by James Strange of the University of South Florida.  Sepphoris was the capital of the Galilee in Roman times.  Main page for dig and volunteer information.

 

Digs in Jordan

Tall al-Umayri, Jordan
(photo courtesy of the Madaba Plains Project)

Madaba Plains Project Home Page
Information about the site and volunteer opportunities.  Parent site of Tall al-Umayri, Tall Hisban, and Tall Jalul excavations. Co-directed by Lawrence T. Geraty, Larry Herr, Øystein S. LaBianca, and Randall Younker.
Virtual Karak Resources Project
The King Fahd M. E. Studies Program--U. of Arkansas
Information on the upcoming season Bioarchaeological Field School Byzantine cemetery excavation run in conjunction with Yarmouk University in Jordan.
American Expedition to Petra
Directed by Dr. Philip Hammond.  Background on the dig and information for volunteers.

 

Digs in Syria

Tell Tuneinir, Syria

Information about the site and volunteer opportunities. Directed by Michael and Neathery Fuller, St. Louis Community College.

Tell Qarqur, Syria

Preliminary reports from the last two seasons of excavation. Directed by Rudolph Dornemann of ASOR.

Egyptological fieldwork directory from ARCE

 

For more information on these and other opportunities, see ASOR's main site under excavations.

 

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