Journal 3. Sloshing & Screening
After days of snow at the excavation site, even walking the short distance from the edge of the trench to the screen can be an arduous task, not to mention sifting through all that mud.This is the...
View ArticleJournal 4: Difficult Digging
Discover how difficult it is to dig through heavy mud and expose archaeological features after spring snowstorms and rain at the excavation site. (From behind the camera, Dr. Parkinson has a sarcastic...
View Article4. Winding Down
These last couple weeks haven't been easy. We've made progress, but we've continued to be hammered by rain on a daily basis. In my last dispatch, I reported that two of our Greek colleagues—Drs. Takis...
View ArticleJournal 5: Underwater Geophysics
Check out how historic levels of rain in Hungary affect the work of geophysicist Dr. Apostolos Sarris and graduate student Dani Reibe as they attempt to establish GPS coordinates on the flooded site....
View ArticleJournal 6: Micromorphology: Sampling Soggy Soil
Watch as geoarchaeologist Dr. Takis Karkanis extracts soil samples at the soggy tell site, which has been plagued by record-setting rain and snow this season. The samples will be impregnated with epoxy...
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