Part One, by Bill Caraher: I heard yesterday that Sarah James’ and Dimitri Nakassis’ dog Holly passed away. Holly had a special place in my heart because I credit her with making me a dog person. Now we have two dogs. One of them, Argie (aka The Bargepole) adopted us largely thanks to Holly. I … More On Holly
The survey’s latest publication is a long (46-page), multi-authored (10 of them) article in Hesperia entitled “Landscape histories and terrestrial networks in the Peloponnese: Results from the Western Argolid Regional Project,” which analyzes the relationship between terrestrial routes and human activity in the western Argolid and beyond. The western Argolid, looking north from Mt. Bachriami … More New publication: “Landscape histories and terrestrial networks in the Peloponnese”
Due to the global pandemic, WARP is doing a virtual study season this year. My Facebook memories and Google photos are torturing me, and I’m jealous of all my friends who are doing fieldwork this year. In the meantime, our small team has been making good progress on WARP from our home bases in north … More The Late Bronze Age western Argolid in 2021
This year, bad as it was all around, was pretty good for the WARP team, who produced four publications: three journal articles and our field manual, which we published and archived on the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR). In January, Grace Erny & Bill Caraher’s article “The Kingdom of Chelmis: Architecture, Material Culture, and the Modern … More 2020 in review, WARP edition
Because of the travel restrictions in place due to COVID-19, the WARP team has found itself with a lot more free time this summer than usual. Many of us are trying to use it as an opportunity to get some additional summer reading done. (I typically bring a lot of books to Greece with me, … More Summer reading, 2020
The Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP) is an interdisciplinary archaeological research program under the aegis of the Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture that seeks to understand the nature of human activity in the western Argolid (southern Greece). Our field seasons took place in 2014-2016 and 2017, first with a … More About WARP now
It’s become a kind of mini-tradition for me to post a picture of my first souvlaki of the summer to social media as a celebration of summer in Greece. Three years ago today, I posted this: For obvious reasons, I won’t be going to Greece this summer, for the first time since 1998. It depresses … More Adventures in souvlaki-ing: chapter one
[Ed: Reposted from the CIG blog] For the past few years, I’ve somehow convinced myself that this year things will be different: this year’s study season will be more relaxed, with more time for contemplation, afternoon swims, and evening drinks at trendy cafés in Nafplio. Instead, each year becomes busier and more hectic as we all realize … More Got no time, but we got Pateks HMTs: the Western Argolid Archaeological Survey, 2019
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
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