It’s Soil, Not Dirt

It’s true, even though I was skeptical when they first told us it would soon happen: I can now tell the differences between soils. In fact, I’ve started noticing just how much I’ve picked up so far and learned. It makes sense that after a couple weeks of staring at...

Antiochia Near the Crag: Blog Entry One

Let’s talk about Antiochia Ad Cragum It’s a pointy, craggy, stabby, dusty, hot, humid, dry, wondrous city waiting to be explored. Due to its situation of being in Turkey, it was wholly ignored during the waves of Ancient Greek excavations carried out by the grand...

Just Keep Digging….

Week two has seen some interesting developments. The North East Temple trenches have seen some interesting turns. The northern trench has now been divided into 5 different locus, or areas of study that are determined by changes in location, soil composition, and...

Mapping Efforts at Antiochia ad Cragum

In addition to quite a few eager Oles figuring out the mysteries of the Acropolis and the Imperial Temple at Antiochia ad Cragum this year, courtesy of  the Environmental Studies Department, St Olaf is also contributing a pair of Trimble GeoXH mapping-grade GPS...

Rock Bottom

Thus ends the first full week of work here at Antiochia ad Cragum. One of the most interesting things I have noticed about the actual digging process is that you never know with 100% certainty what is beneath 1 meter of soil or 1 cm or even a light cover of dust. In...

Turkey Week One

This is my first time leaving the country and it was quite the experience waiting in a Turkish airport for hours. Once we got to Gazipasa it was around midnight and we had a quick turnaround for the 5am start the next day. We get fed breakfast at the school house and...