Judith Berkowitz:  

OK. That Q&A was just too lame. The pat answers they give just don't fit AT ALL. So I graduated from U of I in '72 (when did it become U of I at Urbana-Champaign rather than Champaign-Urbana?) BS Degree in Anthropology / Archaeology, minor in Classics. I went to Israel and studied Hebrew, volunteering on a kibbutz in the Northern Galil; the Yom Kippur War began 7 days after I got there in '73. Then I went on two digs: a prehistoric one in the Jordan Valley near Lake Kinneret, and then in the Upper Galil at Tel Dan. While at Tel Dan, I helped with the surveying. Because my airfare was only good for a year, I returned to the States where I was a waitress (like anyone with a Liberal Arts Degree!) Tel Dan got in touch and paid my way back to Israel to survey for them the next dig season. I forfeited my return ticket and stayed in Israel, living in Jerusalem and working as a draftsman for the Dept of Archaeology in the Ministry of Education & Culture for several years. The Dept head asked if I wanted to be Assistant Director of the Dept of Physical Anthropology at Hebrew University at Hadassah, so I did research there for 7 years. I managed to be the mainstay draftsman for an American dig in the Upper Negev during the summers for 5 of those years. Then a couple of odd jobs in anthropological research for private outfits in J'lem before I returned to the States in '87. I moved to San Francisco later in '87, returning to school (community college) in '91 to get a Library Tech Certificate as part of Workers' Comp rehab (shoulder injury), which was good because Archaeological Research just doesn't go very far in this country. (I was working in a plant nursery be...Expand for more