Banana is our code word for the human skeleton explains Alsberg as we edad over the grid 50, one of three active dig sites at Ashkelon this field season. israel, she explains, some orthodox Jewish groups believe In not be that human should disinterred. The previous season, members of one of those groups staged a protest after that archeologists were excavating skeletons from tombs of well-to-do Canaanites, pre-lsraelite settlers of ancient Palestine. So this season team members speak in code.