UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900

Fieldwork Report: Ofelia Tychon

Photo of Ofelia Tychon on the RLIIM projec.

Getting to Know Rural Assyrians Ofelia Tychon, 2024 Katherine Barton Platt Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  This spring, I got a chance to be part of the excavation team for the Rural […]

Fieldwork Report: Rubar Yavuz

Tell Tayinat 2024: A Season in the Shadow of an Earthquake Rubar Yavuz, 2024 Eric and Carol Meyers Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient Tell Tayinat is a mound located 18 km west […]

Fieldwork Report: Brady Hill

Posing with one of the washed pottery baskets. After being cleaned by the Kurdish students on the project team, it was my daily task to sort through these baskets of pottery, counting each sherd and keeping those that were diagnostic.

Summer Days in Bazyan – My Involvement in the Kani Shaie Archaeological Project Brady Hill, 2024 G. Ernest Wright Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  As a budding archaeologist researching ancient Mesopotamia, saying […]

Fieldwork Report: Riley Stockton

Digging Dirt in Cyprus Riley Stockton, 2024 P.E. MacAllister Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the Vigla Archaeological Field School, a sub-project of the […]

Fieldwork Report: Sarah “Gigi” Konecki-Brazeal

Archaeology: A Deeply Human Endeavor Sarah “Gigi” Konecki-Brazeal, 2024 P.E. MacAllister Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  First surveyed in the 60s and left untouched for decades, Antiochia ad Cragum is a first-century […]

Fieldwork Report: Daniele Moscone

Studying Chipped Stones and Sampling Knappable Rocks Along the Zagros Hilly Flanks Daniele Moscone, 2024 P.E. MacAllister Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient The piedmont of northern Iraq’s Zagros Mountains has long fascinated […]

Fieldwork Report: Claire Hook

Living it up in the Archaeology Lab Claire Hook, 2024 Katherine Barton Platt Fellowship Recipient While working on the Brač Island Project on a beautiful island in Croatia, the team […]

Collections Fellowship Report: Holly Winter

2024 Collections Fellowship Report: The Land Behind Aleppo: Urban Life and State Formation in Bronze Age Syria Holly Winter, University of Sydney Thanks to an ASOR Study of Collections Fellowship, I […]

Fieldwork Report: Luke Poutre

Luke operating the magnetometer.

Heat Builds Character Luke Poutre, 2024 Charles Steinmetz Fellowship Recipient  It is 2:45 A.M. and a cascade of phone alarms begins to sound throughout the dig house. Members of the […]

Fieldwork Report: Lauren Cook

Construction: The Ancient Anatolian Way Lauren Cook, 2024 BIPOC Scholarship Fieldwork Recipient This summer, I had the opportunity to excavate for the first time at the site of Alalakh (Tell […]