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Jenn 2010 at Khirbet Qeiyafa<\/p><\/div>\n
So, hi everyone! My name is Jenn Greene. I am originally from Connecticut in the USA. I got my BA in Archaeology from Boston University and my MA from University College London in Managing Archaeological Sites. My dissertation was about the creation of heritage walking trails in historic cities.<\/p>\n
I got interested in archaeology when I was in high school. I took a summer course at Cornell University and had a project translating ancient Mayan door lintels. My roommate came in at one point and asked me if I wanted to get some food. I responded, \u201cSure! I\u2019m starving! Let\u2019s get some lunch.\u201d She said, \u201cJenn, it\u2019s dinner time.\u201d I had been working nonstop for 9 hours without even realizing it. That is when I decided that I should probably do this for a living.<\/p>\n
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Poster from vocabulary wall made for the Billingsgate Bathhouse. There were tons of mosaics on the Temple Mount and we find tesserae daily.<\/p><\/div>\n
I also love creating educational materials for archaeological sites. I think that too many sites rely too heavily on having a good tour guide. I think that it is imperative for sites to have information available to visitors that can explain what they are looking at and why it is important. I trained in the education department at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and I have worked at Khirbet Qeiyafa in Israel and the Billingsgate Roman Bathhouse in London. I made aliyah last September and was actually really nervous about finding a job here in Israel. Though there is a lot of archaeology here, the network of archaeologists is rather small. Yet the Sifting Project took a chance on me and I couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n
I spend my time here in the research lab writing to all of you people and working to secure grants and donations so that we can publish all of our research. If you\u2019re interested in donating, you can click here<\/a> or check out our crowdfunding page here<\/a>. Follow us on Facebook!<\/a> Twitter!<\/a> (Seriously, I had to learn how twitter worked. Apparently I am bad at being a millennial). Sick of my desk chair, I am on site at Emek Tzurim sifting with our volunteers twice a week. I love hearing everyone’s stories and introducing them to the project.<\/p>\n I love writing the Staff Spotlight segments because I get to share with you the wonderful people I get to work with every day. The staff of the Sifting Project is what makes this job so wonderful. Welcoming, patient with my lack of Hebrew, friendly, knowledgeable, and genuinely interested in the welfare of our visitors, staff, and artifacts, the staff of the Sifting Project is a family and I am blessed to be one of them.<\/p>\n Jenn with a friend who came with an NCSY group to sift<\/p><\/div>\n My favorite memories from the past few months of work are either those where I ran into people I knew randomly on site while I was working, or our special staff tiyul (trip) where I got to learn about the archaeology of Jerusalem from the experts (see some pictures below). It was incredible. We saw excavations in progress, had special access to areas not open to the public, and spoke with the site directors. Zachi and Gaby also taught us about different sites and it was really interesting to see some of the top archaeologists debating methodology and interpretation. I felt like I was right in the middle of these debates that are so hot in archaeology right now.<\/p>\n\n\t\t![\"20160713_160738_resized\"](\"\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/09\/20160713_160738_resized.jpg?w=300\")