tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853572598289333982024-03-22T03:26:04.213+02:00Saving the Stones<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1100654/Logo-title-wordpress.png" height="90" width="450">Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485357259828933398.post-79595731444318765012012-06-05T12:26:00.000+03:002012-06-05T12:26:39.602+03:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday began with a massive sleep in, followed by visits to some of Tzfat’s artists and lots of lounging around. It was nice to gear up for the week ahead and catch up on some much needed rest and relaxation.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I think this weekend was very interesting and enlightening for all involved, not just us from Saving the Stones. Because of the diversity of our group, we had a lot of engaging conversations with Livnot participants and leaders which brought a different perspective to the table (quite literally, since that is where we talked the most). It was great to get to know people outside of our little STS community and learn from people whom we may not have otherwise engaged. I know I personally gained a new understanding about some of the things we talked about. Even if I had opinions already, we talked about somethings that I haven't thought about in a while and it was nice to reconnect with myself as I learned about others.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_8GfAlcxoLyZqr6aqtHnDASqJ1PjKXgEnzTFf9-Vk3NRKphPE73HSL5fuL5oKjH5pup00vLA2pekxPogAz3-OnMGnwFO2HJsgrestkMZ_lkYHituQ88HOC79e6khLQu5fvBMyEqHNl8E/s1600/DSCF4816.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_8GfAlcxoLyZqr6aqtHnDASqJ1PjKXgEnzTFf9-Vk3NRKphPE73HSL5fuL5oKjH5pup00vLA2pekxPogAz3-OnMGnwFO2HJsgrestkMZ_lkYHituQ88HOC79e6khLQu5fvBMyEqHNl8E/s200/DSCF4816.JPG" width="150" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We chose to work on a large part of the Southern Wall and the oven/chimney, which involved scaffolding, power tools, designing our own mortar, planning our own project - everything. The problems we encountered included the use of cement by previous conservators and fire damage. The stones in my corner of the project were particularly fragile due to intense fire damage, as was the chimney and oven where two of my friends were stationed. The ultimate goal of the project was to make the first, tangible steps in establishing this <i>kahal </i>as a practical training ground for building and conservation professionals in the region. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: inherit;">Time is flying by so quickly now! I cannot believe I am finally
sitting down to write this entry and over a week has passed already. Our time
in Tsefat has also come and gone, but I will write more about that later. We
are now preparing our final reports of the work we did in Jerusalem and Tsefat
and will finish the documentation in the coming week. First, let’s talk about
Jerusalem! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: inherit;">Our last week in Jerusalem was spent mostly at the Kotel Tunnels (<a href="http://www.thekotel.org/">http://www.thekotel.org/</a>) where we
witnessed one of the largest grouting operations – up to 1,000 liters of mortar
can be pumped into one vault in a single day and the complex of vaults is huge!
The tunnels date to the Roman Period and run along the Western Wall of the
temple complex in the Old City. Their excavation and conservation is a
fascinating and difficult project, especially since the entire complex of
vaults sits under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. This makes the project more
difficult in terms of architecture and engineering, but also in terms of
politics and religion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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someone’s floor, so the IAA occasionally receives a phone call about mortar
coming through the floor of a family’s home or business. Aliza, whom we worked
with at the Tomb of David in Jerusalem (week 12), told us another story from
her time at the tunnels: they began drilling 1m into the wall and the drill
suddenly pulled forward after 20cm. They pulled out the drill to see what
happened and saw light and feet on the other side! There was an undocumented
room full of people who illegally moved to Israel and were living just on the
other side of this worksite. Oops!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvue-TM2VVlzoJc9xCLu6RU-E5OmS1vv3zXrgEQxWsYA-zz8HjPN4CcvneEl-nE6wFMzbjnF618PaImiMkc3du9uOAe4YrRtUJ-hNYcSsmY-RWwuC_OumcswXD3WerQzo4vkRGFOr_BWL6/s1600/DSCF4432.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvue-TM2VVlzoJc9xCLu6RU-E5OmS1vv3zXrgEQxWsYA-zz8HjPN4CcvneEl-nE6wFMzbjnF618PaImiMkc3du9uOAe4YrRtUJ-hNYcSsmY-RWwuC_OumcswXD3WerQzo4vkRGFOr_BWL6/s320/DSCF4432.JPG" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: inherit;">Now, grouting is the process by which mortar is injected into the
core of a wall or vault in order to stabilize it from the inside. In most periods
of history, builders filled walls with soil, which later washed out, settled,
or just plain disappeared. Many archaeological and historical buildings have
large hollow spaces inside the walls that need to be filled in order to be
safe. In our case, in the Kotel Tunnels, this is done with an air compressor
and batches upon batches of mortar. The rooms and tunnels that are being
conserved now will someday be open to the public and incorporated into the tourists’
tour of the site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course, and 2) Jonny’s (the IAA conservation engineer of the project) tour of
the Kotel Tunnels. As the engineer, he was able to take us to areas that are
not yet open to the public – including a potter’s workshop and a very large cistern
with much of the original plaster still intact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a lot of different types of work, learned a lot at every site we worked at, and
got really, really messy (my favorite!). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(http://www.jerusalem-hostel.com/), just across the street from Zion Square,
where there are all sorts of restaurants and shops. After the laid-back
atmosphere of New Akko, the hustle and bustle of a major city was a nice
change. Still, we all needed a few days (or a week in my case) to recover from
the …uhhh…adventure of living in a hostel for 3 weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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experience altogether! There is a good reason why I cannot fit both weeks into
the same blog entry, so I will catch up soon. For now, I will enjoy the
beautiful weather from the rooftop of our BRAND NEW apartment in Old Akko!
(Yes, we now live in the Old City by the sea!!!)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">1)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Tour of the Dead Sea Scrolls Conservation Lab at the Israel Musuem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week of Pesach (Passover), we jumped right into a week long intensive
course on stone conservation with Jacques Nageur, Head of Art
Conservation for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), and his
team. Our week with Jacques was highly anticipated, as it had been
built up by the Saving the Stones staff, and it definitely did not
disappoint. Plus, the course was open to other conservators so we got
to meet some new people, including people who work the grounds at the
Ba'hai Gardens in Haifa and students from the conservation program at
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the city walls and the roof of Akko Prison, Jacques made sure we knew
what we were doing and why. The first 2.5 days were spent in the
classroom discussing mineralogy, how to assess risks to the stone,
deterioration patterns, cleaning and treatment processes, practical
considerations, and <i>many</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> case
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third day, we split our time between the classroom and two
trouble-shooting workshops. We visited both the tombs of Al-Jazaar
Mosque and the archway to a local courtyard in order to examine their
states of preservation and assess the risks to these structures. Of
course the typical causes of deterioration were evident: climate,
water, and human intervention. We also tried our hand at cleaning a
section of graffiti across the street from the ICC, which we returned
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a museum which is now owned and operated by the Israel Ministry of
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tells the story of Jewish rebel inmates who defied the British
through a grand escape in 1948. While the prison was in operation,
convicts spent part of their time on the roof where there is nothing
to do except take in the panoramic view of Akko and the coastline. Oh
yeah - and scratch your name into the floor and walls.</span></span></span></span></div>
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inscriptions are part of the museum's maintenance plan and an
attraction for tourists. The wind was particularly strong that day,
so we couldn't use many of the chemicals we planned, but we were able
to remove weeds (which formally fall into category “bio attack”)
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sandblasting, aluminum blasting, and plastic blasting. We applied
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week – only to find it repainted the next morning! Jacques told us
that graffiti removal is a booming business and now we see why. Well,
at least we don't have to worry about running out of work here in
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10 opened with a lecture titled </span><i>The Construction of Built
Heritage in Israel: Status and Assessment </i><span style="font-style: normal;">from
Raz Efron, Head of Planning in the IAA's conservation department. Raz
gave us an extremely helpful overview of the global, national, and
local organizations that are responsible for conservation in Israel.
His main point was that, by and large, conservation happens because
the local people want it. It is up to local bodies to organize, plan,
fund, and execute the work. Raz's lecture didn't go in this
direction, but it connects to what I talked about at length before –
tangible and intangible heritage. I won't repeat myself here (because you can read all about it in my entry on week 4 :) ), but the
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">We finished the survey exercise on Wednesday morning, before we were introduced to one of Akko’s Arab residents and social activists. Sami is a textbook sceptic who spends his efforts fighting on behalf of his people. His point of view is helpful for understanding the different opinions in Akko’s Old City. He is also sensitive to the social and political issues that Arabs, particularly Arab children, face in this city, such as underrepresentation in government, housing problems, and lack of quality education. Sami’s voice was challenged by our next speaker, Tzili Giladi, the IAA Supervisor for Akko, who countered many of Sami’s extreme positions. Next up was a discussion of antiquities law and legal bodies led by Radwan Bdachi, a legal consultant for the IAA. Our long day ended with a Hebrew lesson and a quick bike ride home, in hopes of missing the rain that threatened to pour all day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">Throughout our discussions over the past four weeks, the word “generation” has come up a lot when we talk about the purpose of building conservation. The word is easy to use and its nice to think that we are doing something for future generations, but it did not really strike me until I saw the father of the 10/50 house seated with his eldest son standing behind him. The son looks just like the father probably did about 25 years ago, but with today’s fashion sense. I wish I could have taken a picture because the juxtaposition illustrated exactly what we are talking about - staying the same while constantly changing. Its a fine balance, but one that is necessary for a cultural to survive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">We ended the week by discussing the connection between “built” or “tangible” heritage (i.e., buildings, artifacts) and “intangible” heritage (i.e., values, traditions, rituals). How do we preserve the intangible? How can we protect the social values that are passed from generation to generation? Using the same method we use to conserve buildings: survey, documentation, classification, and performing the necessary work in order to pass what is conserved on to future generations. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The first week was a whirlwind of introductions as we met key people and places in the surrounding community. The week officially closed on Friday night with Shabbat dinner at various host families throughout the city. One of the homes had never spoken English within their walls but thought it was important to welcome us into their home and thoroughly enjoyed our company nonetheless. The families were all gracious, incredibly hospitable, and, fortunately, good cooks!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After spending the first week learning all the “who”s and “where”s, we spent the second week learning “what”. What are we doing here? What is conservation? What <i>isn’t</i> conservation? We were also encouraged to think about our final projects as we move throughout the course and to keep what we are learning in the back of our minds as we develop feasible ideas. When it comes to the final project, (almost) anything goes. You can do anything from developing a children’s program to conserving a grave site, plus the project is not geographically confined, either. For example, I will be working at Caesarea, a coastal site about 70km south of Akko that has been a testing ground for conservation technologies (more details are on the way!).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week three brought a variety of lectures, exercises, and workshops, including archaeological excavation methods, a tour of Tel Akko from the excavation’s co-director (Ann Killebrew, Univ. of Pennsylvania), a flashlight-guided tour of parts of Crusader Akko that are not open to the public (Danny Syon, IAA), and even a hummus making tutorial from one of the Saving the Stones participants! We also learned about antiquities theft, the organization of the black market, and the legal loopholes of international dealing from Shai Bartura, deputy director of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s (IAA) crime division. Wednesday began with two tours, one of the architecture of the new city and one of the IAA’s ceramic restoration workshop for the northern region of Israel, housed here in Akko. The week was rounded off with a three day weekend for Purim, post-Purim recovery, and general relaxation. After the storm that hit the coast last weekend and made for a rough day Monday, we are all grateful for the sunshine and warmth that finally came to Akko. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In addition to our formal program, we have attended many cultural events over the past few weeks. Let’s see...we went to a MASA cultural event where we saw musician Shlomi Shaban, novelist Eshkol Nevo, and the band Mookie, the local conservatory for an <i>amazing</i> operatic performance by Israel’s own Yaniv D’or (<a href="http://youtu.be/Iq509edSi5A"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://youtu.be/Iq509edSi5A</span></a>), the Akko Auditorium to see the Andalusia Orchestra, and, or course, Akko’s one rock music venue, MED (or, as the bartender calls it, <i>the</i> venue in Akko).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There are many exciting events on the horizon! Oh, yeah...and lots of hard work, too. I will keep you informed on both as we move along. Its going to be an awesome experience!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...and if you haven’t already, please “like” the Saving the Stones page on facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Conservation.Program"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">https://www.facebook.com/Conservation.Program</span></a>) where I will be posting photos on a regular basis. Tell your friends! All the cool kids are doing it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Next week: Documentation, engineering, and survey!</span></span></div>
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