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.
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.
Tesovo and Shapki (Russia)
July-August 2003 St.Petersburg State University Two medieval sites near St. Petersburg.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Iklaina (Greece)
June 3 to June 17, 2005. Iklaina Archaeological Project, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Survey, GPS/GIS, geophysics; investigate the major area around Iklaina, one of the district capitals of the ancient kingdom of Pylos, in southwest Peloponnese.
Castanheiro do Vento (Portugal)
July-September, 2005. University of Portugal. Archaeological excavations in the prehistoric precinct of Castanheiro do Vento (Horta do Douro V.Ş N.Ş de Foz Côa- NE of Portugal).
Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria)
June 10-July 15, 2004 (two sessions). History Museum in Blagoevgrad. The preliminary site surveys show that the site contains extremely rich material, which provides information for a period of occupation from earliest Prehistory (early Neolithic, Chalcolitic, early Bronze age) till antiquity. Materials from the Early Iron Age were also found.
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.
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)
Chastiye Kurgany Burial Mound (Russia)
July 18 - August 8, 2004 (two sessions). Centre for the Study of Eurasian Nomads, Rostov University, and the Donskaya Arkheologia journal. Scythian, 5th-4th centuries BC; Khazar, 8th-9th centuries AD; Polovtsian, 11th-13th centuries
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.
