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The team wastes no time as they gather their tools and hurry to their assigned tasks.\u00a0 Our area team, of approximately 25 students, is divided into eight squares (smaller areas of excavation measuring 4 X 4 meters) with about two to three students to a square.\u00a0 On a daily basis each student will likely collect an entire bucket of broken pottery shreds, bags full of animal bones, flint tools, seeds, and other artifacts. Almost immediately after work begins a student calls out that they have found something unusual they need me to see.\u00a0 \u00a0I climb down the ladder into the square to see what she has uncovered. \u00a0She hands me a piece of dark brown, almost reddish burnt clay-like material.\u00a0 Instructing her to scrape the ground with her trowel, a circular shaped outline of this material starts to appear.\u00a0 She has discovered the top of an ancient tabun, a cone-shaped clay oven used for baking bread. 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