by alarie | Jul 28, 2014 | Research Blog
Now that we have gotten the majority of the rocks thrown off the cliff we got separated into groups and started on our individual trenches. I am in Lizzy’s trench and we are working on leveling the ground and lowering it at about 10cm at time until we get...
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...
