by smithjo | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
This week marks a change in how we excavate Trench 4. Although we continue to remove soil from the top of Locus 2, we have decided to increase each pass to 20 centimeters. Using handpicks, shovels, and buckets to remove soil, 20 centimeters allows us to efficiently...
by smithjo | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
After a week of clearing wall fall and loose, organic soil we were finally able to open Trench 4 on the acropolis of Antiochia ad Cragum. After taking beginning measurements for height and trench dimensions, we began another 10 centimeter pass over Locus 2 and we...
by howe | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
Although not an Ole by birthright or registration, Philip H., our Dutch-Australian colleague and friend, certainly has earned a place in this Blog and our community through his easy good cheer and indomitable worth ethic. At his request, I post his farewell poem...
by schoepho | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
This month in Turkey has ended too soon. So many questions still need contemplation and so many areas need excavation, but I’m hopeful that, in due time, the full extent of this excavation and its web of historical complexities will be fully understood by all...
by mclellan | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
And so ends Antiochia Field School 2014. For those who don’t know me, I have had my eyes set on a career in archaeology since Prof. Howe suggested it to me my freshman year at St. Olaf. However, I had no experience with archaeology whatsoever and, to be honest,...
by brownmt | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
At the beginning of the second week in trench AC1 we found floor. It was a lovely floor, plastered and smoothed and perfect in every way, save for one little confused corner. I say confused because it was having a serious identity crisis. Anyway, circumstances being...
by lochtefe | Aug 13, 2014 | Research Blog
Swept, shovelled, cleaned and cleared. The trenches are ready for the rainy Turkish winter, and we walked away from the acropolis for the last time. It was a bittersweet moment, filled with and odd mixture of “job well done, lad,” and “OMYGAWD NO...
by Anna Lund | Aug 13, 2014 | Research Blog
Over the course of the past few weeks, we have been reading various articles with information about sites, history, and other topics that relate in some way to our own site or serve as a comparison to our own site. The intent of these reading was that we would be able...
by white | Aug 12, 2014 | Research Blog
I carried a lot of buckets this week. Up in trench four of the acropolis we are still doing large 20-30 cm passes, as the fill that we are excavating is still very sterile. Hence, we are still going at it with big picks and shovels, and I soon found my place in the...
by Nicholas Bowlin | Aug 12, 2014 | Research Blog
In trench 4, we have struggled to find anything of importance. While most other trenches have uncovered interesting features and cool objects, we have remained stuck in the “fill layer”. This is the layer of sterile, fluffy soil blown in by the wind over...
