Figure 21. The dry south west corner of Reservoir 13 with its deposit of plastic bottles on top of algae ‘rooted’ in about 3 cm of new sediment. 26 October, 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 22. Crew members begin cleaning of sediment and algae. 26 October, 2016
Figure 3. Excavation of the rubble approaching completion. 25 October 2016.
Figure 16. Reservoir R19 at end of season; final cleanup to be done in 2017. 2 November 2016.
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 11. Reservoir R19 with soil heaps; looking to southwest. 11 Oct 2016.
Figure 14. Leveled area looking south-southwest across Reservoir R19. 25 October 2016.
