by aera | Sep 19, 2011 | 2011 Field Season
Posted by Ana Tavares This week we launched the 9th AERA/ARCE field-school, the Mit Rahina Field School (MRFS). Twenty kilometers to the south of our usual excavation site, the modern village of Mit Rahina is at the core of Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt....
by aera | Jul 7, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Mary Anne Murray Well, that was a long and interesting Giza Lab season! The Giza Field Lab was open from January 8th and closed its doors on May 31st. There were scheduled to be 36 specialists working in the Lab on the material culture and environmental...
by aera | May 18, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Steve LaPidus I have spent the last six weeks as a volunteer on the AERA Giza Plateau Project with some of the most interesting and knowledgeable people I have ever met. I went on a site tour set up for the team early on in the schedule. We had a chance to...
by aera | May 2, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by John Nolan It’s been a very busy 18 days for the AERA Sealings Team, consisting of Ali Witsell (University of Chicago graduate student and AERA Publications team member) and John Nolan (AERA Associate Director and Senior Epigrapher). Way back on April...
by aera | Apr 18, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Sabine Boos As everybody knows, people in ancient Egypt used stone to build their monuments and statues. What is much less known, however, is that a large number of their tools were made of stone and this holds true for the Predynastic period as well as for...
by aera | Apr 10, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Hilary McDonald Archaeological photography is a diverse field. Much of it is a waiting game dependent on sun and wind to work with everyone’s schedules. The time must be right when a full excavation space can be cleared of tools (and people) and look...
