As we have come to expect from them each year, Balkan Heritage has planned ten interesting opportunities for archaeology field and laboratory work scheduled for the 2011 season. The academic-credit short courses include Neolithic and Roman period excavations, pottery and conservation workshops, and medieval fresco documentation in the Balkan states of Macedonia and Bulgaria.
Hellenistic, Roman, Late Roman occupations at Heraclea Lyncestis in Bitola, Macedonia. Photo courtesy Balkan Heritage
Featured this year are four new projects: excavations at the early Neolithic site of Ilindentsi; excavations at the ancient Greek city of Apollonia Pontica; a new workshop for conserving Late Roman mural paintings; and a new fresco documentation project, this one in southwestern Macedonia.
For details on these opportunities, visit the list on Eastern European Digs 2011, or drop in on the Balkan Heritage site directly.
Medieval Fresco, Southwestern Macedonia. Photo courtesy Balkan Heritage
Contact Information:
- Balkan Heritage Field School
- www.bhfieldschool.org
- 204 Sveta Troica Str.
- BG-6004 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
- Phone/fax: +359 42 235 402
- Phone: + 359 888 165 402
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Comments
In Southwestern FYROM, not Macedonia. Pella is in Macedonia and is Greece. Thessalonike is in Macedonia and is Greece. Fyromians want to build a national identity at the expense of historic truth. Do you agree? Macedonia is Greece. http://macedonia-evidence.org/documentation.html
Grevena, Kozani are in Southwestern Macedonia!
Macedonia was divided between Greece, the now defuct
country of Yuglosavia, and Bulgaria. The present day
Macedonians are SLAVS not Greeks and the language is
most closely related to Bulgarian. Folk Music and Folk
Dance are likewise more similar to Bulgarian village music
and dance, rather than to Greek Taverna music and dance.