by Henry Worden | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
My mentality has gotten more optimistic. When we first started digging I was feeling annoyed because I was working so hard and it was so hot, but the deeper we go and the more we find, the more theories and ideas I have, now I’m really excited for each dig day because...
by Claire Malone | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
As much as I’ve enjoyed ripping rocks out of the ground with a pickaxe like a dirt-covered version of the Grim Reaper, it’s been exciting to finally begin finding substantial clues as to what this complex might have been. Two rock parties in and we’ve hit soil change!...
by Kate Lindsay | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
As I am officially halfway through my internship in Türkiye, many new things have altered my perspectives about archaeology. I think that being able to start on new contextual layers in my unit has definitely helped with maintaining a level of optimism. It helps me...
by Erik Lee | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
While I was flying over from the US to Türkiye, I was bringing not only my luggage inside the metal bulkheads of the plane, but also something that would survive quite persistently over the first two weeks; a preconception. I was mainly focused on the physical...
by Whitney Cowan | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
For the sake of transparency, I will admit that as we have gotten to the deeper, less disturbed layers, I have been reminded various times to be more careful and cautious. Given the intensity of the manual labor that has been required simply to open our unit, I fear I...
by Margaret Ahlberg | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
On Friday, I experienced my very first soil change. Before that, in the outer storeroom of the Great Baths I’ve been excavating, we had been working to remove one very substantial layer of soil that had been intentionally placed there all at one time. Likely when the...
by Lily Molinaro | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
Beginning to excavate more contextual, less disturbed layers, I have begun to expect anything. Excavating the more disturbed layers, I expected to only find some pottery and lots of huge rocks; now I am excited to dig even deeper and see what we will discover! I am...
by Lydia Shannon | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
It’s hard to believe that I’m halfway through this internship. The days are long, and the weeks are short. My perspective has changed a lot since the first day on site. When I began working, much of our work focused on the top layers, and I spent most of my time...
by Jacob Halvorson | Jul 26, 2026 | Research Blog
The second week at the dig site and our first full week of work raised many new questions and helped us get more comfortable on-site. As we excavated deeper into our unit, we became better acquainted with our tools and got into a rhythm as we did ten centimeter...
