by lavangej | Aug 18, 2014 | Research Blog
Looking back on my experience in Turkey on the long plane ride home, I realized that I have learned so much not only about archaeology, but about working efficiently with a team and traveling and living in a foreign country. It was hard to see how much I truly learned...
by Nicholas Bowlin | Aug 17, 2014 | Research Blog
Before this project, my only experience with archaeology were the Indiana Jones movies and I had only a vague idea of what real archaeology entailed. This program taught me that attention to detail is vital to successful archaeology. We detailed every soil change,...
by white | Aug 17, 2014 | Research Blog
When I heard about this program it seemed so outrageous that I just had to go. I never imagined that I would have the opportunity to do real archaeology– it was one of the careers that my parents joked about me doing, but not something I could ever picture...
by redelfs | Aug 17, 2014 | Research Blog
I spent this final week of the dig the same way I spent the three days previously: articulating walls and other various forms of essentially cleaning up the area known as structure IV. This building encompasses both trenches 4 and 5, which I bounced between as was...
by johnsokg | Aug 16, 2014 | Research Blog
This has been one of the most interesting programs I have ever been on. From the culture to the language barrier to the diverse group of people in our class to the unique work we were doing on a daily basis, it is almost impossible to really capture in words what this...
by irons | Aug 16, 2014 | Research Blog
On Friday, August 15, 2014, Julia Marie Irons <irons@stolaf.edu> I had no real idea, before Antiochia, of what it meant to look at a wall, or room, or soil, or piece of pottery, and see points of access for interpretation. It’s not as though...
by dynneson | Aug 16, 2014 | Research Blog
My time in Turkey has been rather memorable. I have learned a lot here (like how to tell the difference between schisty soil and bedrock, which is harder than you might think sometimes), and although I am very excited to go home, I am sad to say goodbye. Over the last...
by irons | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
I would not venture to attempt a complete packing list, but I would say, besides dig clothes that might get trashed, to be sure to bring: a water bottle, work gloves, sunglasses, duct tape, ziplock bags, sunscreen, a hat, several bandanas, swim goggles, a tablet or...
by irons | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
That title is actually somewhat misleading, in that Antiochia doesn’t have much to offer by way of Latin inscriptions. (There is at least one: a milestone, erected in the Julio-Claudian period, situated a bit away from our usual stomping grounds.) But what...
by John Seabloom-Dunne | Aug 14, 2014 | Research Blog
It’s tough to try to summarize a month’s worth of work in a few paragraphs, but nonetheless that’s what we’ve been trying to do with this blog. The innumerable daily challenges and excitements would be impossible for any one person to catalogue...
