Archaeology Digs in Europe

July 6-August 1, 2012. Oberlin College and Oxford University. Since its inception in 1999 the Sangro Valley Project has included a Field School and considers the training of both graduate and undergraduate students in the latest archeological and technological methodologies to be part of its essential mission. The four-week Field School enrolls up to twenty undergraduate students annually, the majority drawn from Oberlin College and Oxford University (with occasional undergraduate and graduate students from other US and UK as well as Italian universities).

Placement service for archaeology digs in Spain, no Spanish required, mostly for university-based excavations and student credit provided.

June 27-July 31, 2010. Cotsen Institute, UCLA. Astypalaia is a beautiful small island in the Aegean Sea in Greece. It has the largest ancient children’s cemetery in the world, with at least 2,700 children’s burials.

June - July 2011. The Texas Foundation for Archaeological and Historical Research (TFAHR); University of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Skopje. A systematic excavation of the site that many archaeologists believe is Bylazora, the fabled capital of the Paionian people.June and July 2010 was TFAHR’s third season excavating the site most archaeologists now regard as the ancient Paionian city of Bylazora. Since 2008 TFAHR has been excavating on the acropolis of Bylazora (Sector 3). Starting with a trench that had been backfilled from a 1980s test sounding, TFAHR went on to expose a 25 meter length of the city’s defensive wall and came upon the remains of a propylon (monumental gateway).

July-September, 2005. University of Portugal. Archaeological excavations in the prehistoric precinct of Castanheiro do Vento (Horta do Douro ­ V.ª N.ª de Foz Côa- NE of Portugal).

June 30-July 28, 2012. ArchaeoSpain. ArchaeoSpain participants at the archaeological excavation of Clunia will join a field crew alongside archaeologists and architects from the Universities of Valladolid, Burgos and Barcelona. Next summer we will be continuing the excavation of the city’s theater, the largest of its kind on the Iberian Peninsula.

June 30-August 11, 2011 (two sessions). Area de Antropologia Fisica, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. Ongoing excavation at southeastern Spanish early Palaeolithic sites with hominid remains.

May 20-June 16, 2012. Institute for Field Research. The 3D Archaeological Recording and Visualisation Project will introduce participants to a broad range of 3D recording, mapping and visualization methods. They will be given hands-on instruction in these methods in the context of the major ancient Greek archaeological site of Eleusis.

The IFR conducts archaeological research throughout the globe, including Europe.

Next offered in 2013. University of Kansas. Every year classicist John Younger takes a group to Greece, where they tour the museums and archaeological sites, for course credit and or just the plain fun of learning something new. No digging, just tours, travel, monuments and museums.

June 4-July 16, 2011. Davidson College Athienou Archaeological Project. This Davidson College sponsored program trains students in archaeological field methods and techniques and introduces them to the rich history and culture of the island of Cyprus, uniquely situated at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Participants in the program in 2011 will join the Athienou Archaeological Project in its 21st campaign year. The Project involves excavation at the site of Malloura (occupied from the Geometric through Ottoman periods - 8th century B.C. to 19th century A.D.) and field survey of the surrounding valley in south central Cyprus. Participants attend seminars led by faculty and resident or guest specialists, complete an independent research project, and visit archaeological sites (e.g., Amathus, Kition, Idalion, Kourion, Paphos) and museums. Students live in the small town of Athienou and learn about life in modern Cyprus.

May 20-27 2007. Nautical Archaeology Society. A study tour of Dutch East India Company (VOC) sailing ships and the archaeology of them, including a series of lectures on the history of the VOC and VOC shipbuilding practices.

August, 30 2010-October 30, 2010. University of Siena and Etruria Nova. 8th season of excavations on Etruscan village and necropolis in Tuscany.

June 15-June 28, 2008. University of Tennessee. The aim of the basic field school is to explore the archaeology of Greece focusing on the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, at the site of Mitrou, a tidal islet on the North Euboean Gulf of central Greece.

May 26-June 21, 2008. Northern Illinois University, University of Palermo, University of Gothenburg, and Stanford University. Monte Polizzo is a proto-urban hilltop site used for nearly 1,200 years and encompasses the Bronze, Early Iron, Elymian, and Hellenistic periods in the island's history.

September 2-16, 2012. ArchaeoSpain. Testaccio was the largest archive of Roman commerce in the world. Monte Testaccio is an artificial hill of testae and crockery 45 meters (135 ft.) high. Participants at this site will interact in all aspects of the archaeological process, including artifact extraction, documentation, drawing, recording and restoration. Once an ancient pottery dump, Monte Testaccio is now one of the largest archives of Roman commerce in the world. Heralded as one of the most important research programs about Roman epigraphy, economy and commerce today, Monte Testaccio combines the efforts of two universities and ArchaeoSpain to process the pottery shards from an artificial mount created by centuries of discarded amphorae – many of which still bear the markings of the contents and the exporters who transported them

June 1-August 31, 2010. Hellenic Education & Research Center (HERC). Students receive extensive instruction in Archaeological Drawing and Archaeological Conservation while participating in the on-going excavations at the ancient port city of Phalasarna.

June 1-August 30, 2012 (3 sessions). University of Valladolid and ArchaeoSpain. The University of Valladolid’s archaeological team at the Celtic-Iron Age necropolis and Roman settlement of Pintia has chosen ArchaeoSpain to organize international student crews to join its team this summer. The excavation focuses on the Vaccean necropolis and city walls. The Vaccean culture was an Iron Age people with Celtic links that settled in north-central Spain around the 5th century BC. The cemetery, located about 300 meters (984 feet) from the main settlement, was used between the 4th century BC and the 1st century.

June 25-July 29, 2011. Southern Methodist University. The Mugello Valley Archaeological Project and Poggio Colla Field School center on the excavation of Poggio Colla, an Etruscan settlement site in the Mugello near the modern town of Vicchio, about twenty miles northeast of Florence, Italy.

July 1-28, 2012. ArchaeoSpain. In 70 B.C. the Romans founded the city of Pollentia on the northern side of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. This ArchaeoSpain program is designed for High School students currently in grades 11 and 12 (16-17 years old). The participants at the archaeological excavation of Pollentia on the island of Mallorca will work as field crew on the ancient settlement of the city alongside archaeologists from local government agencies and university students. The object of our work will be the continuing excavation of the city's Forum. Participants at this site will contribute to the research of the introduction and development of the Roman culture across the Mediterranean and specifically in the Balearic Islands

Placement service for excavations in Portugal. PortAnta runs several field schools and excavations every year.

June 18-July 7, 2012 (two sessions). University of Missouri - St. Louis and Athens Archaeological Society. The UM-St. Louis archaeological project in Pylos, Greece, seeks to examine the historicity of the Greek kings of the Trojan war, especially the legendary king Nestor. The fieldschool includes excavation of the Early Helladic, Middle Helladic, and Mycenaean settlement at Iklaina, and work with the finds and ceramics at the Pylos museum. In 2012 we plan a limited-scale stratigraphic excavation as part of the study season.

August 15-28, 2011. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Roca dels Bous may represent one of the last Neanderthal settlements located in the Pyrenees and apparently concurrent with the first Upper Paleolithic tradition in sites as la Cova de l´Arbreda or la Cueva del Castillo. La Roca dels Bous is located in the pre-Pyrenees mountain ranges, near to the town of Balaguer. The access to the archaeological site is easy, but the landscape is quite rugged and wild, with deep ravines and sheer cliffs.

2011. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Survey and restoration of the Church of San Giovanni Battista (12th century); survey and conservation of the Roman public baths in the nearby ancient city of Carsulae; survey of the church of Santo Gemini, (13th Century). The new field project that will start in the summer of 2011 will be the restoration of the "Porta Burgis", which for a period was the main city gate of San Gemini leading in the direction of Rome along the Via Flaminia. It was built in the 13th Century using ancient material scavenged from the nearby Roman city of Carsulae it was part of one of several expansion of the Medieval city. It was a local reflection of a general trend of urban revival in Central Italy leading to the ” Comune Period” one of the high points in Italian history.

April 20-November 22, 2012 (10 sessions). Ecomuseum of the Cape of Cavalleria. The excavation will be situated in a Roman fort (123 B.C.-50 B.C.), investigating the buildings and artifacts of the soldier’s provisions stockrooms and living quarters. In 2012, we will be excavating the Roman City of Sanisera, which overlooks the natural port of Sanitja. The excavation is directed by Fernando Contreras, director of the Ecomuseum of the Cape of Cavalleria.

April 20-November 22, 2012 (10 sessions). Ecomuseum of the Cape of Cavalleria. The Ecomuseum of the Cape of Cavalleria in Menorca, Spain, has scheduled for 2012, the excavation of a cluster of roman tombs belonging to a cemetery located on the outskirts of the roman city of Sanisera,which was occupied from 123 BC to 550 AD. The excavation will be directed by Fernando Contreras, director of the Cape of Cavalleria Ecomuseum, with the collaboration of specialists in physical anthropology and conservation.

May 2-29, 2011. Lemba Archaeological Research Center, University of Edinburgh. Souskiou consists of four contemporary cemeteries and an associated settlement of c. 3000 BC. Since the 1950s, the cemeteries have yielded striking objects including a vast number of cruciform female figurines. We now have the opportunity to make the first sustained excavations at the settlement.

On hold until further notice. Junta de Castilla y León and ArchaeoSpain. Participants of this program will join the field crews unearthing the Celtiberian, Roman, and Medieval site of Tiermes, one of Spain's most diverse archaeological centers.

June 6-July 18, 2012. Boston University and Universitat de les Illes Balears in Menorca. Torre d'en Galma, the easternmost of Spain’s four Balearic Islands, is located midway between Spain, Sardinia, France, and North Africa. The field school will be based in the beautiful port city of Mahón, now the modern capital of Menorca.

July 18-August 8 2011 (3 sessions). The Archaeological Cooperative Society. The Footsteps of Man Archaeological Cooperative Society is based in Valcamonica, an alpine valley comprised between the province of Bergamo and Brescia in Northern Italy, where rock art constitutes an archaeological, artistic, ethnographic and historical patrimony of inestimable value, not only for its antiquity but, above all, for the thematic and iconographic wealth..

June 19-July 31, 2010. American Institute for Roman Culture. Participants will also explore both the urban development and the material culture of Rome from the 1st- 6th century CE, investigating in detail many diverse aspects of Ancient Roman civilization. The Villa delle Vignacce complex, built in the second century AD, was the property of Quintus Servilius Pudens, a friend of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The villa is located in a park famed for the well-preserved aqueduct channels that stretch for miles along the Via Appia Antica and was first explored by archaeologists in 1780.