Category: Field Season 2016

• July 5, 2016

  “Is This a Rock?”

  Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting. I’ve been a little ill, but I’m feeling better after a week of cold and allergy medicine. Also, I want to give a shoutout to my Fraternity brothers gathering in NYC for the national bi-annual governance conference called the Grand Arch Council. I wish I could be…
• June 26, 2016

  Rain Delay (means long weekend!)

  What to say about the past week digging at Aeclanum… Perhaps I’ll start from the end and work my way to the beginning, just to keep everyone on their toes. As the title of this post suggests, the Apolline Project’s team of students and supervisors at the site of Aeclanum were rained out Thursday afternoon.…
• June 17, 2016

  All in a Day’s (or Week’s) Work

  I owe everyone a small apology for being relatively silent this past week. It has been filled with challenges paired with rewards and motivations; not the least of which has been limited internet access and over 90°F heat throughout the workday. I felt like Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty hiking through…
• June 10, 2016

  The Field Season Commences (kind of)!

  This week,the team of students and archaeologists (myself included) from the Apolline Project commenced their first activities in the field for this summer. Work-wise, it was a fairly mild week due to permit delays for our excavation in Pollena; we spent most of our time shuffling through the ever-important excavation documentation from the lastseason to assist in…
• June 4, 2016

  How NOT to visit Pompeii

  On Friday, I went with a group of Apolline Project participants to Pompeii. I have to admit, I’m rather disappointed in myself as an archaeologist for how I failed to manage approaching the site. We were unprepared in a number of ways and quickly became overwhelmed by arguably one of the largest and most popular archaeological sites…
• June 2, 2016

  Arriving in Pollena

  Yesterday, I made my way to the first project I will be participating in this summer, the Apolline Project, located outside of Naples, Italy (specifically, the town of Pollena Trocchia). I flew with Meridiana Air and I must admit I got everything I paid for (which is to say not much). Thanks to Google Flights,…