69: Pigging Out
Israel Story
Israel Story
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
BLTs and pork chops are not the first things that come to mind when you think about Israel. But, as it turns out, the Holy Land and swines go way back. In today’s episode, we go down a piggish path to encounter this most unlikely of Israeli animals.
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| 0:00.0 | A few years ago, Lidar Sapirchen, a Zuo Archaeologist from Tel Aviv University, got a call |
| 0:09.2 | from two of her colleagues, Jo Ziel in Oltal Halaf. |
| 0:14.0 | They were in the middle of a dig in Jerusalem city of David, and had just made an unusual |
| 0:19.0 | find. |
| 0:20.0 | I think they sent me a picture, and I said, OK, this mole animal is a pig, so excavate it |
| 0:25.1 | carefully, and we want to see exactly how it was positioned when it died and what happened |
| 0:29.9 | to it, and don't just take out the bones. |
| 0:32.9 | Following her instructions, they carefully unearthed the complete skeleton of a young piglet, |
| 0:38.9 | who 2700 years ago was in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
| 0:44.9 | The sitting fell on it, and it was caught between the vessels on the floor. |
| 0:49.9 | Do you happen to have that pig here? |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, I have it here. |
| 0:53.9 | Can I see? |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.9 | Where's the skull? |
| 1:07.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah, that's the skull. |
| 1:10.9 | So this is the pig? |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, it's divided here into boxes. |
| 1:15.9 | Each box has a different part of the body, but this is the box with the skull. |
| 1:19.9 | You can see it's very, very, very small. |
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