meals would be just like to-day's. It is not strange that they often
longed for a change, and looked with envy at the crops of the farmers
in the settled lands beyond the desert.

+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| [Illustration: BRONZE NEEDLES AND PINS FROM RUINS OF ANCIENT |
| CANAANITE CITY] |
| |
| [Illustration: CANAANITE NURSERY BOTTLES (CLAY)] |
| |
| [Illustration: CANAANITE SILVER LADLE] |
| |
| [Illustration: CANAANITE FORKS] |
| |
| Cuts on this page used by permission of the Palestine Exploration |
| Fund. |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+


CLOTHING

Another occupation at which the women worked all day long was the
making of clothing for their families. Most of their garments were
made of the wool from their own flocks. First the wool had to be spun
into yarn. They did not even have spinning wheels in those days, so a
spinner took a handful of wool on the end of a stick called a distaff,
which she held in her left hand. With her right hand she hooked into
the wool a spindle. This was a round, pointed piece of wood about ten
inches long with a hook at the pointed end, and with a small piece of
stone fastened to the other to give momentum in the spinning. With