Figure 17. Close up view of quarry marks. Below the 10-cm scale stick the groove in which wood wedges soaked with water were jammed is clearly visible. Because of the fine-grained igneous texture, the basalt blocks split of smoothly, similar to a flint sliver knapped from a core. 1 November, 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 14. Leveled area looking south-southwest across Reservoir R19. 25 October 2016.
Figure 25. Team 2. The Group mostly responsible for clearing the deep stone layer from Quarry-Reservoir R19. 2 November, 2016.
Figure 5. The energetic crew that completed the R7 excavation. 20 Oct 2017.
Figure 24. Team 1. The group that worked the first two weeks and is mostly responsible for the clearing and cleaning of reservoirs R7 and R31.
Figure 16. Reservoir R19 at end of season; final cleanup to be done in 2017. 2 November 2016.
Figure 10. Twentieth Century surface supply channel collected runoff from open field to north of Reservoir R31. Oct 10, 2016.
