Final Post

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...

Final Blog Post

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,...

Final Thoughts

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...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

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...

Elveda

  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...