Directing (or rather co-directing) an archaeological project for the first time is like teaching for the first time: it seems impossibly difficult at first, and you wonder how (and maybe why) anyone does it. But with every year it gets a bit easier, so although our first field season in 2014 seemed so hard, in… More WARP 2019: kill your computer
[Reposted from Bill’s blog] The storerooms where we work at the Western Argolid Regional Project have a set of cabinets where we store artifacts. Apparently these cabinets came from the French project in Argos and were passed on to our project when they were no longer used. One of the most charming things about these… More Typologies
[Reposted from Bill’s blog] Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been bringing together the analysis of a series of fortifications in the Western Argolid. This has nudged me to re-read Maher and Mowat’s recent Hesperia article on the watch towers around Mantinea in Arcadia. Their article rather than focusing on the plans of towers or… More Viewsheds, Views, and Surveillance
[Reblogged from Bill’s personal blog] It’s taken me about five years to wrap my head around the landscapes of the Western Argolid. It feel like one of those crazy Möbius strips where space bends back onto itself and opposite points end up being on the same plane. Part of the challenge is that I’ve spent so… More Landscapes of the Western Argolid