[Ed.: this was originally published on Bill’s blog] This fall, we received some really helpful reviews on an article that we submitted to the Journal of Field Archaeology on our work documenting the Modern site of Chelmis in the Western Argolid. Among the comments was the suggestion that we develop the relationship between our work… More Chelmis and Historical Archaeology in Greece
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
[Reblogged from Bill’s blog] Yesterday, Costis Dallas and Seamus Ross from the E-Curators project visited the Western Argolid Regional Project study season to talk to us about our use of digital tools and digital practices. We spent most of the day in either formal interviews or informal conversations about how we used technology to produce know… More A Visit from the E-Curators Team and Digital Time
[Reblogged from Bill’s blog] The formation processes that produce the surface context studied through intensive pedestrian survey are really annoying. They hide things that you know MUST be there (like Late Roman material on a prominent coastal height overlooking a Roman to Late Roman settlement). They make visible things that have no rational explanation (like the famous one sherd… More Sometimes Survey Makes Sense: A View from Chelmis
There are five different talks by WARP staff members, most of them dealing with material from our survey, at the upcoming annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in San Diego: Friday “Maintaining the Conversational Flow: The Role of Roman Aqueducts in Greece” (20 min) Machal E. Gradoz, University of Michigan (SESSION 1I: The… More WARP at the 2019 AIA meetings
WARP 2018: THE STUDY SEASON is over… sort of. I am still dealing with the data deluge and trying to rest up after a frantic end-of-season, and I’m even trying to catch up with all of the blog posts that Bill Caraher wrote about WARP. You should read them too. Here they are, in chronological… More Catching up with WARP
[Originally posted on Bill’s blog] One of the challenges of siteless survey is shifting our intention from a focus on sites to the distribution of artifacts across a landscape. Over the last four years at the Western Argolid Regional Project we have collected artifact level data from over 7000 survey units that cover a significant percentage of… More Distributional Analysis