Troweling Down

Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers discuss some of their favorite dishes!  Not food, but what it is cooked in -- Casseroles!  In particular, they discuss one dubbed "The Flying Casserole".   This one has a very interesting story that reinforces the destruction theory of Tall el-Hammam.

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Like 3D puzzles?  How about having to hunt for all of the pieces?   We have a very interesting one to show you.  It's another pottery vessel from the Palace Area.  How it came to be so scattered about and burned is puzzling, but  Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers offer a very compelling theory!

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What wonderful stories pottery has to tell!  Not only can pottery give us a date for a civilization, it can also be used to give a better understanding of how a civilization lived.  Most of the time it paints a picture of everyday life, how they cooked their meals, what products they stored,  sometimes even what rituals a civilization performed.  

In this episode, Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers discuss how a pot can even give clues as to how a civilization was destroyed! You can learn a lot from a pot!  

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No, it's not an actual pottery style.  In this episode, Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers show examples of pottery found at Tall el-Hammam that have been encrusted with salt.  The Dead Sea is well known for its salt and mineral content, but how did the salt get all the way up the valley to Tall el-Hammam?  Enjoy the discussion in this episode!

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Pottery is the timepiece of a site.  Pottery forms help date when a civilization existed.  In this episode, we look at some of the analyses being performed on the pottery from the "Palace Complex" at Tall el-Hammam.  

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A continued discussion about a cosmic event that wiped out the cities of the plain in the Middle Bronze Age. The evidence suggests an airburst event occurred. Dr. Byers and Dr. Collins continue to discuss in Part 2, the evidence that 22 researchers & scientists unaffiliated with the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project have provided. Published in Nature Scientific Reports, this paper is making an impact in the scientific community.

This paper can be found here  

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A cosmic event wiped out the cities of the plain in the Middle Bronze Age. The evidence suggests an airburst event occurred. Dr. Byers and Dr. Collins continue to discuss the evidence that 22 researchers & scientists unaffiliated with the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project have provided. Published in Nature Scientific Reports, this paper is making an impact in the scientific community.  

This paper can be found at:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3  

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Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers discuss the recently published paper in Nature Scientific Reports, on the airburst that destroyed Tall el-Hammam in the Middle Bronze Age. This paper was the collaboration of 22 researchers in various fields, lead by our own Dr. Phil Silvia. Learn what impact this paper is making! 

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The site of Tall el-Hammam has hundreds of thousands of stones that did not move up the hill by themselves.  Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers discuss what the ancient people built with all of these big rocks.  What a lot of work!

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Some people say, "You can't have it all!"  But we do! The location of Tall el-Hammam put it right along one of the major trade routes in the Holy Land.  Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers finish their discussion on how the location of Tall el-Hammam put it smack dab in the geographic background of many of the events in the Bible.

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