The good news about fieldwork in southern Israel is that we don’t worry about snakes. The bad news …
Mark Wilson June 9th, 2010
Don't worry, family members. These items are rare in our field area and easily avoided. I've seen more unexploded ordnance in the Mojave Desert of California. It is a mortar shell, by the way, probably set on the rocky shelf by an absent-minded Israeli soldier decades ago.
I feel so much better w your explanation.