...Amman proper and cooking...
While conducting research in your home region can be tricky, conducting research in another country, while always tricky, can also be...complicated. Proposals to write, permissions to get, paperwork to complete...and it continues. This day began with a meeting at the Department of Antiquities to solidify research agendas. The support and interest is apparent, but the paperwork and waiting. Ugh. Lots of it. The good news? This allows plenty of time for fieldwork planning. The joys of fieldwork. After the morning meeting with the DOA, we headed out to the Citadel. I’ve written about it previously , and not going to repeat myself here, so there aren ’t any pictures for this short blog. On this visit, however, we were able to visit the museum. Although the interpretive plaques are a bit yellowed and old, they still convey pertinent information and the museum’s layout and artifacts are crazy neat! And once you’ve seen pretty much all the places where those artifacts are from, it...