by aera | Mar 29, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Emma Johnson The 2011 excavation season might technically be coming to an end this week, but work in the archive is never finished. In the archive room at the villa, we collect and manage the documentation for every project undertaken by AERA. Our...
by aera | Mar 23, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Dan Jones As the 2011 excavation season at Khentkawes draws to a close, it is a chance for me to reflect on the past few weeks. The last week on site was very busy as we finished excavating, did extensive mapping to record the exposed archaeology, and...
by aera | Mar 21, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Claire Malleson Arriving in Cairo this time had an extra air of expectation to it. After the events of the past several weeks what might have changed? Well, not much yet! Not that affects the day to day business of archaeobotany (the study of ancient plants)...
by aera | Feb 28, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Richard Redding The horses and camels are back. As a result the pigeons have returned to Giza. Now, if we can just the tourists to comeback! For more information about the pigeons, see the earlier post “The Mystery of the...
by aera | Feb 27, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Yukinori Kawae We first saw the structural footprint of House Unit 1, the largest house in the Pyramid Town for now, during the large-scale Western Town ‘scrape and plan’ season in 2004. Team members call it “Yuki’s House” but...
by aera | Feb 23, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Yasser Mahmoud We were excited to begin drawing Standing Wall Island’s “jumble of limestone and mud brick walls” (SWI) (see Simon Davis’ “Standing Wall Island” blog post). In the beginning we couldn’t believe ourselves to...
