Week 5: Stone, Caesarea, and the Western Galilee What an exhausting week! This week, Saving the Stones spent 3 days in Caesarea, a beautiful coastal site about 70km south of Akko, learning about the conservation and maintenance of archaeological sites. This got us thinking more about our final projects, what we are interested in now that we’re spending more time in the field, and tuned us into the real-life issues site conservators must face....

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Week 4: The Tangible and the Intangible: From Section Drawing to Social Value After three days of rain and cold, it is nice to sit in the sun and recall the events of the past week while looking forward to the next. All of us Saving the Stones participants agree that this week was densely packed with information and exercises, but passed quickly nonetheless. We took part in a wide variety of exercises and discussions, as usual, but this week...

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Welcome to the Saving the Stone’s first blog entry! Now that we are all settled into our new environment and active schedules, the time has come to launch “the blog”. So much has occurred since arriving at the Akko train station on February 20 that it is hard to know where to begin. In that case, I shall begin at the beginning... The first week was orientation week in the true sense of the phrase. It began with a 9:48am arrival at the Akko train station and a round of energetic, yet sleepy, introductions, followed by a quick ride to our...

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