Banana is our code word for the human skeleton explain john as we head over the grid 50 one of three active dig sites at ashkelon this field season. In israel she explains some Orthodox Jewish groups belive that human remains should not be disinter. The previous season members of one of those groups staged a protest after hearing that archologists were excavating skeletons from tombs of well-to-do canaanites pre-israelist settlers of ancient Palestine. So this reason team members speak in code