by jcm | Jul 28, 2014 | Research Blog
Sort of like the Reddit AMAs, if you’ve been reading the blog, you might have some questions. Unfortunately, commenting using pages.stolaf.edu is limited to St Olaf students, faculty, and staff– which won’t necessarily include the family and friends...
by dynneson | Jul 28, 2014 | Research Blog
Last week I worked on a variety of things at the site. I started off the week helping everyone finish clearing out the acropolis so that we could finally open our trenches. After more rock and brush clearing, we were finally able to measure and mark out our trenches...
by redelfs | Jul 26, 2014 | Research Blog
Some very interesting things happened this week in the Temple’s South Trench. On Monday, Leif discovered the edge of the wall we were looking for. It ended up bisecting our trench diagonally, going to the Southeast’s corner. Since we found the...
by brownmt | Jul 26, 2014 | Research Blog
This marks the end of our first full week of working at Antiochia. My body aches but everyday we strip away a little, or a lot, more soil, which is pretty neat. On Monday we got our trenches and I have been working in the same trench since. It has been a very exciting...
by Zoey | Jul 26, 2014 | Research Blog
We talked earlier this week about the landscape here. In our discussion, we realized that this landscape is bit harsh because humans came in and destroyed it. In reality, this landscape is harsh because that’s what happened after the last great ice age. And...
by horber1 | Jul 26, 2014 | Research Blog
The first week at Antiochia ad Cragum was spent clearing brush and large stones in order to begin the creation of new trenches on the site. The sites acropolis has been separated into four main trenches: a small out-building at the sites Eastern entrance, a larger...
by schoepho | Jul 26, 2014 | Research Blog
Now I’d like to take the time to fully elaborate what I’m doing ‘job-wise’ in Turkey. I hope those at home don’t think that I spend ALL my time on the beach, for my purpose thus far has been to endure intensive manual labor in the name of...
by irons | Jul 24, 2014 | Research Blog
Our work during the first week at Antiochia has been divided (somewhat unevenly, it’s true) between the acropolis and the northeast temple. I’ve been very fortunate in getting to work at both sites. The first two days on the acropolis were exhausting but...
by tveite | Jul 23, 2014 | Research Blog
So, as you may have heard once or twice on this site, Turkey is a pretty warm place. And it turns out that archaeological sites, at least ours, are pretty dirty. Each day as we all troop towards lunch at the end of the work day we all must look like we’ve just...
by lavangej | Jul 23, 2014 | Research Blog
So far, the first five days in Turkey have been a blast, and I can’t wait to experience the next three weeks! It was a little rough getting adjusted after a long day of travel and on top of that getting up at 5 am the next day, but I think most of us have made...
