First (Half-)Week

We're at our first weekend now, having started on Wednesday. It's rained a bit...OK, it rained a lot on Thursday afternoon, and it's raining lightly this morning. The students have all headed off the Perugia, where we believe a visit to the chocolate factory is on the agenda. The staff are planning an outing to somewhere too.
On site, we've started in with three test trenches, placed according to the results from the geomagnetic surveys of previous years. The water table continues to be much higher than it was in our firs two seasons, perhaps higher even than last year, which means that it still covers the lowest strata we excavated in '08 and'09. This is not helpful. Two of the test trenches are still not quite through the topsoil, so not much to report there.
A presto!

Looks familiar

Trovato a Imola (BO) un tratto della strada che in età romana collegava la valle del Santerno alla via Emilia: a little bit of Roman road that looks just like ours.

Summer finalized!

Met today to finalize dates, cost and promo meeting at Drew for this summer's dig session. Sign up now!

Now in AFOB

Just posted the details for this season's field school at the AIA's Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin. More announcements coming.

Now on Twitter!

Since I've started using Twitter, I figured I would try to get this blog hooked up with it. So from now on, when I use the word "twitter" in a post, that should get it tweeted.

We'll see. :-)

Update: And it works!

2011 Umbria Field School Info Session at Drew

Drew students and others in northern NJ can get some preliminary info on the Summer 2011 season at a short info session this coming Monday, December 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Brothers College 215.

More details (and a downloadable calendar link) on the Drew website here.

See you there!

Buona festa di San Felice!

A short piece on the local patron saint. A bit weak on the historiography, but they do work in a plug for the site.