Khuzhir-Nuge VI (Russia)
Next Field School scheduled for 2006. University of Alberta and Irkutsk State University. Neolithic cemetery located near the shores of Lake Baikal.
Körösladány-Bikeri, Hungary
June 27-August 5, 2005. Körös Regional Archaeological Project. A long-term, multidisciplinary, regional research project aimed at understanding the later prehistory of the Great Hungarian Plain. Student researchers will help excavate the Early Copper Age (ca.4,500-3,900 BC) settlement of Körösladány-Bikeri.
Malloura (Cyprus)
May 29 to July 17, 2005. Davidson College Athienou Archaeological Project. The Project involves excavation at the site of Malloura (occupied from the Archaic through Ottoman periods - 7th century B.C. to 19th century A.D.) and field survey of the surrounding valley in south central Cyprus.
Mari-Mesovouni Lithic Collection, Cyprus
August 17-26, 2005. Lemba Archaeological Research Centre on Cyprus, University of Edinburgh. Chipped stone from the Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic site of Mari-Mesovouni will be the subject of intensive hands-on contact with artifacts in a structured course environment designed to help students understand how the lithic specialist uses lithic artifacts to interpret ancient society.
Mas D'Is (Spain)
August 3-September 14, 2003 (three sessions). University of Valencia AMAPA. Neolithic site in the valley of Alcoiŕ-El Comtat; investigation of the cultural interaction between hunter-gatherers and farmers arriving in Mediterranean Spain from Middle East.
Olloy-sur-Viroin (Belgium)
July 2-28, 2006 [three sessions]. ArcheoStage. Excavations at a late Bronze Age fort near Viroinval, Belgium.
Pompeii (Italy)
July 1-August 7, 2005. University of Bradford (Anglo-American Project in Pompeei). In the 2005 season, we will continue to research the whole of Pompeii’s society. We’ll be looking at a large house, a shrine, workshops and bars.
Rmiz-Near-Laskov (Moravia)
June 17-July 18, 2003. The College of DuPage and the Czech-American Research Project; excavations at the Neolithic enclosure of Rmiz-Near-Laskov, Moravia (20 km S/SW of Olomouc, Cz), though additional testing is planned for two Neolithic burial mounds near Namest na Hana. (information on 2004 to arrive soon)
Salemi (Sicily)
May 23-June 20, 2005. Northern Illinois University. We will continue with last year's excavation in the modern town of Salemi. Our goal will be to continue excavations in the ancient city of Alicia.
San Vincenzo al Volturno (Italy)
September 23-26 2004. Soprintendenza archeologica of Molise and the Instituto Universitario di Suor Orsola Benincasa. Excavation of Samnite, Roman (Republican and Imperial), and early medieval occupations under rural vineyards.
Scanteia and Tropeaum Traiani (Romania)
July 18-August 1, 2005. San Francisco State. Two sites in Romania, one a Late Neolithic village and one a alte Roman city.
Sopeńa Cave (Spain)
June 15-August 15, 2005. La Asociación Cultural Cuaternario Cantábrico. This project involves the excavation of a cave site covering the Middle to early Upper Palaeolithic Transition, that is Neandertal and early modern human occupations.
Souskiou-Laona Settlement Excavation (Cyprus)
August 16–September 12, 2005. 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.
Tesovo and Shapki (Russia)
July-August 2003 St.Petersburg State University Two medieval sites near St. Petersburg.
Thy, Denmark
July 3 — August 6, 2004. SUNY-Buffalo. Our research, which focuses on how decentralized societies become states, is set in the later Iron Ages-Early Medieval periods of Denmark, where between AD 500-1200, several autonomous chiefdoms were transformed into a single, unified polity.
Torre d'en Gaumes - Menorca (Spain)
May 24 - July 4, 2005. Boston University. Excavations cover from the time the site was first inhabited (ca. 2500 BC), through the Punic and Roman periods (from the 4th century BC to the 4th century AD), the Palaeochristian and Arab periods (5th through 13th centuries AD), and into the modern historical periods.
Valcamonica (Italy)
July 26 - August 9 2004. The Archaeological Cooperative Society "The Footsteps of Man" of Cerveno (Valcamonica-Italy). Field school searching, drawing and cataloguing the engraved rock art of Paspardo, Valcamonica
Zolotiye Gorki (Golden Hills) Russia
June 19-August 5, 2005. V.V. Klyutchnikov of the Rostov University, the Donskaya Arkheologia journal and Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads (CSEN, USA), excavation of this Khazarian fortress in the Don River valley.
