Tell el-Farkha (Ghazala) (Egypt)
TELL EL-FARHA
Dates of work: 23 February–13 May 2008
Team:
Co-Directors: Dr. Marek Chłodnicki (Archaeological Museum in Poznań), Prof. Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz (Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University)
SCA representative: Yasser el-Said el-Gamal (Mansura Inspectorate)
Archaeologists: Katarzyna Błaszczyk, Artur Buszek, Marcin Czarnowicz, Piotr Kołodziejczyk, Michał Kurzyk, Łukasz Obtułowicz, Grzegorz Pryc (Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University), Maciej Jórdeczka, Jacek Kabaciński (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań), Marcin Krzepkowski, Michał Rozwadowski, Michał Sip (Patrimonium Foundation, Poznań), Małgorzata Żukowska (Archaeological Museum in Poznań)
Ceramologists: Dr. Mariusz Jucha (Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University), Agnieszka Mączyńska (Archaeological Museum in Poznań)
Anthropologist: Prof. Maria Kaczmarek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Archaeozoologist: Renata Abłamowicz (Silesian Museum in Katowice), Daniel Makowiecki (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń)
Geologists: Prof. Maciej Pawlikowski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków), Joanna Such (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków)
Photographer: Robert Słaboński (Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University)
Documentalists: Joanna Sawicka (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań), Halina Żarska-Chłodnicka (ARCH media s.c.)
Student-trainees from the archaeological institutes of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Excavations were carried out on all three of the tells making up the site, continuing investigations started in previous seasons. A small test pit (5 x 5 m) on the slope of the Eastern Kom was excavated and backfilled. Post-processing work was conducted on site, dealing with the pottery, flint and other stone tools, as well as the human and animal remains.
[Text: PAM]