Archaeology
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Mostly about student involvement in the dig: The Lantern – OSU students excavate in ancient Greece.
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A team of archaeologists have discovered a fortification system at the Minoan town of Gournia, a discovery which rebukes the popular myth that the Minoans were a peaceful society with no need for defensive structures. The team’s efforts were led by Professor Vance Watrous and Matt Buell of the University at Buffalo. Located on the…
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Very interesting item buried in my email from last week: The second century Greek trading vessel lies on the sea bed off the coast of Cavtat. Little remains of the wooden ship but its cargo of earthenware amphora – ceramic vases – still remain stacked row upon row. The vases, which originally contained olive oil…
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I always like when really ‘obscure’ stuff shows up in the news … here’s the incipit of an item in the Pacific Northwest Inlander: There’s a rock off the southwestern tip of Cyprus that juts out of the sea. You can get there on the B6, a windy coastal road hewn out of rock in…
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Calleva seems to be an awfully interesting dig … last time we heard about it, it was about the ‘puppy skin’ trade. Now we hear of Boudicca’s possible involvement there: Professor Michael Fulford said that 13 years of excavations at Calleva had revealed evidence of the first gridded Iron Age town in Britain. The site…
