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Fieldwork Report: Evelyn Patterson

Multi-Temporal Excavation with the Menorca Archaeological Project at the Site of Torre d’en Galmés, Menorca, Spain Evelyn Patterson, 2024 Strange-Midkiff Scholarship Recipient With the generous award of the Strange–Midkiff Fieldwork […]

Fieldwork Report: Liza Davis

A Day in the Life at the East Church, Antiochia ad Cragum Liza Davis, 2024 Member-Supported Fellowship Recipient This summer, I had the privilege of working as a trench supervisor […]

Fieldwork Report: Victoria Wilson

On the Street Where You Lived: Household Archaeology at Kurd Qaburstan Victoria Wilson, 2024 Strange-Midkiff Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient I spent my summer in a hole in a barley field in […]

Fieldwork Report: Lorenzo Guardiano

Figure 2: The EIMAWA team

Between River and Desert: September in Aswan Lorenzo Guardiano, 2024 Katherine Barton Platt Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient Since 2022, I have been part of the EIMAWA (Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan) archaeological […]

Fieldwork Report: Louis Mainwaring Foster

Stumbling Over Rocks Louis Mainwaring Foster, 2024 BIPOC Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient Thanks to this scholarship, I spent part of my summer working on the Brač Island Project along with a […]

Fieldwork Report: Sheldon Harmacy

Photo 4: A cross section of one of the various cooking instillations excavated this year.

A Triumphant Return to the Field Sheldon Harmacy, 2024 Strange/Midkiff Families Fieldwork Scholarship Photo 1: The crew for Square G4. 65 this season, from left to right, Cafir, Abas, Sheldon […]

Fieldwork Report: Suzanne Gilles

A Month on the Island Suzanne Gilles, 2024 Katherine Barton Platt Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient On 7th of May 2024, I received an email from ASOR telling me that I had […]

Fieldwork Report: Madeline Conigliaro-Nguyen

Fig. 1. GMAP 2024 project team in Ankawa, Erbil. (©Federico Dalla Battista)

Sun, Sweat, and Sheep Bones: Zooarchaeology at Gird-I Matrab Madeline Conigliaro-Nguyen, 2024 Eric and Carol Meyers Scholarship for Fieldwork Participation My second season at the Gird-I Matrab project from May […]

Mesopotamian Fellowship Report: Agnese Vacca

Fig. 2. Tell Helawa with excavated areas 2016-2023. Viewed from the drone. ©MAIPE.

“Crafting Complexity”. Pottery Production and Consumption at Helawa (Erbil Plain) between the Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic Periods Agnese Vacca, University of Milan, Mesopotamian Fellowship Recipient Aims of the “Crafting Complexity” […]

Collections Fellowship Report: Jon Paul Heyne

In front of the Franciscan Archivio Storico della Custodia di Terra Santa in Jerusalem. Photo courtesy of author.

2024 Collections Fellowship Report: Social Mobility of the Medieval Mediterranean: The Case of the Franciscan Custody Jon Paul Heyne, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Dallas Shortly after the […]