by Grace Jasinski | Aug 3, 2025 | Research Blog
As the rest of my unit can attest, the hard, packed layer of dirt and the subsequent plaster surface have given us much context, but even more questions (and frustrations, bruises, soreness, and exhaustion). The beginning of the week began with the discovery of a...
by Kyra Andresen | Aug 3, 2025 | Research Blog
I turned 20 this week, and I wouldn’t have expected to be so excited about spending my birthday troweling through dirt, but as we get lower and lower into the unit, every find becomes a little more exciting. Each new discovery is one step closer to puzzling together...
by Chloe Peevey | Aug 3, 2025 | Research Blog
As my (albeit abbreviated) second week on the site came to a close, I still have no clue what’s going on. Given our unit’s lovely wall fall composition, our finds have mostly consisted of dirt, mortar, and rocks. Of course, we retain best practice, slowly...
by Henry Quayle | Aug 3, 2025 | Research Blog
Having seen past the surface levels of the site, my mentality is definitely more alive, for lack of a better word. On the surface, there’s nothing but roots, rocks, and bushes with the single most sharpest leaves I’ve ever had the displeasure of getting in...
by Mason Hill | Aug 2, 2025 | Research Blog
It is hard to believe that we are halfway through the internship, as I feel both that I am a novice discovering new information every day and that I am becoming more interested in the answers to the next level of questions about our findings and the work itself....
by Riley Holets | Aug 2, 2025 | Research Blog
For those of you reading this, without having heard the conversations that circulate in my unit, I have been dubbed a dwarf. There is some irony in this as I am not short, have no beard, and am not very good with metal working– HOWEVER, I have an avarice for...
by Alex Van Etten | Jul 27, 2025 | Research Blog
As a plane first touches the ground, a trowel digs into the earth and I fall down a staircase, it would seem that nothing can escape the weight of gravity. I began my journey here in Türkiye in rather unfortunate circumstance, though I had come to work I was inhibited...
by Zoe Ottinger | Jul 27, 2025 | Research Blog
I’ve learned that I can see myself working in an archeological career in the future. When starting the week, I thought my physical health would heavily get in the way of my ability to contribute to the team. By the time the second day rolled around, my body had...
by Parker Johnson | Jul 27, 2025 | Research Blog
I’ve enjoyed swimming this past week, at the beach in town, in the cove by our site, and in the canyon at Sapadere, where we clambered around yesterday. But little did I expect to feel like I was swimming when I came out of my dorm Monday morning. As we waited for the...
by Ignatius Fitzgerald | Jul 27, 2025 | Research Blog
I have never before in my life drank as much water as I am drinking on the site each day. On my second evening in Gaizpaşa, Gabe and I made the trek to the A101 to purchase two 5L jugs of water to bring to the site, as we were both running out well before our 1 pm...
