by | Jul 19, 2019 | Research Blog
My first week in Turkey has been a sensory and information overload. Turkey is hot, dry, and dusty, – a bit of an adjustment from the hot, humid, wonderfully verdant summers of my native Virginia. Yet while the change of landscape and topography was shocking,...
by | Jul 19, 2019 | Research Blog
It’s crazy to think that I’ve only been here a week because of how much I now know about myself and have grown in this short period of time. One of the biggest things that I’ve learned is that I can do this. I can go to a new country with people I don’t know very...
by Lissie Chin | Jul 19, 2019 | Research Blog
80-something-degrees is a nice temperature especially after some scorching 100 degree afternoons. Now besides my new found ability to roast in the sun slowly, I have discovered — or more like rediscovered — the joy of the slower and more tedious kind of...
by | Jul 19, 2019 | Research Blog
Things have changed a great deal from when I first came here, and more often than not in a positive rather than negative way. First major change: I thought archaeology was a much more isolated field of study than most others, but the more I stay here, the more...
by | Jul 19, 2019 | Research Blog
Eight days into the excavation and I have learned that I hate the rain here. With Thursday bringing enough rain to cancel a day of excavation, my team and I are unable to finish leveling AC6C and start removing wall-fall near the east wall and start to expose what...
by | Jul 19, 2019 | Research Blog
I stand, slowly, from my diggers-squatting position, wiping the sweat off my brow with a soot covered sleeve, to admire my handiwork. I find myself standing in a 2/3 or so meter-deep trench, after several days of digging, completed with the help of my two...
