Practice is studio work: survey, excavation, monitoring, collections, reporting, and field school. Desk is paid crew filings. Help is questions. Archaeonest is stationed in Jerusalem. We record to the excavation license. We do not issue it.
Pedestrian walkover, shovel testing, and desktop assessment against the license file and historic maps before anyone opens ground.
Evaluation and data recovery with measured contexts, photography, screening, and a Harris matrix another crew can continue.
Watch during open-cut utilities, grading, and demolition. Work stops for features, the record is made, the contractor resumes.
First aid for fragile and waterlogged material. Packed, labelled, and handed to a conservator with a note on what not to do.
Cataloguing, condition notes, and museum-ready boxes so a store can take a collection without opening every bag on day one.
Grey literature, drawings, and a finds list that match the boxes — written to the license and the archive that will take them.
Excavation teaching that still produces a usable archive. Supervisors sign every sheet. A later crew can continue the trench.
You do not need a full brief on day one. We will say if the ground does not need a trench.
Site or district, what is already known, the proposed disturbance, and a deadline. A map or photo helps. Protected-site coordinates stay off a first public message.
We read the license file and historic maps before anyone puts a shovel in. If a trench would not answer the question, we say so in writing.
Methods, days, and deliverables go in a written scope. Fieldwork is recorded so another crew can continue the work — context, photograph, and catalog in one file.
If you already have a director, we attach. If you need a season planned, we start from the map. Client names stay off this site.
Written down so another crew can continue the work.
We are not the Israel Antiquities Authority. Finds and the record follow the license, the landowner, and the repository agreement.
That is enough to start. Crew members who already have a unique ID use Track or Crew access.