by | Aug 11, 2019 | Research Blog
Something that I’ve learned during my time in Turkey is that you should always be flexible and ready to adapt to any situation. It is clear that the culture here is different than in America, and not everything is always detailedly planned out. You have to roll with...
by | Aug 11, 2019 | Research Blog
I am so happy to have come here. So many interesting experiences and ideas that I cannot really recount them all. However, there are many things I have learned. I will speak of two for the sake of time and ease of reading. First, academically, I learned what I would...
by | Aug 8, 2019 | Research Blog
Anyone affiliated with archaeology eventually faces a comparison with Indiana Jones. While I certainly don’t mind being compared to Harrison Ford, the comparison between modern archaeology and Indiana Jones style archaeology isn’t quite fitting because each...
by | Aug 8, 2019 | Research Blog
Archaeology as a practice is a great character building experience. While I excavated at Antiochia ad Cragum, I have been a part of a long hunt for knowledge. This hunt included me digging for about six hours a day, five days a week, not including transportation,...
by | Aug 8, 2019 | Research Blog
If my potential employer asks about my time in Turkey, there were would be many things that I would want them to know. First would be similar to most abroad experiences in that, I have learned to work with others that are from a different culture and to work through...
by | Aug 8, 2019 | Research Blog
There are many different aspects of my experience working on an archaeological dig that I would bring up in a job interview, a few of them being the work ethic, culture, critical thinking, and leadership I have developed over this time. There is a lot of physical...
by Eli Graf | Aug 8, 2019 | Research Blog
My time in Turkey was both personally transformative and was an excellent way to build key skills that would help me in any workplace. First and foremost, I acquired many important skills. Attention to detail, operational planning and work ethic were all generally...
by | Aug 8, 2019 | Research Blog
There are so many things that I don’t know. There are so many things that no one really knows, and so many things that no one wants to know. But one thing I now know, is that it is okay to not know. In fact, it’s great to not know something because then you have the...
by Donald Rigby | Aug 8, 2019 | Research Blog
If a potential employer were to ask about my time thus far in Turkey, I would have several points to discuss. Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, is the ability to successfully work in a team. Over the past month the vast majority of the time spent working on site...
by | Aug 8, 2019 | Research Blog
As my time in Turkey comes to an end, I’d like to reflect briefly on why archaeology is worth doing. It’s not patently obvious that we should care about archaeology. Why bother with the stuff of the past when we have enough to deal with in the present? My answer to...
