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- Jul 20, 2014
- 4 min
Benefits of a Military Past in an Archaeological Career?
For almost eight years, my life belonged to Uncle Sam. I was an infantryman—an indirect fire infantryman to be exact. The thrill of my life was to sit behind a 120mm mortar as the first round slid down the tube; the smell of burning nitroglycerin, the feel of the blast, the taste of my own blood in my nose from the initial impact—all of these are grand memories for me. In 2005, I was deployed to Iraq but taken away from my beloved mortar and attached to a reconnaissance plato
- Jul 8, 2014
- 3 min
Mt Raitano Excavations 2014 (Popular Edition)
Archaeology is a science, but it is also an art–a good deal of educated guesswork goes into the analysis of the finds. This summer I had the great opportunity to lead a field at Mt Raitano, Sicily, but the results were less than desirable. To begin with, the actual goal of our original investigation was to excavate a series of rather large rock cut chambers on the southern ridge. Of the five chambers to investigate, only two were accessible from a side entrance; the remaining
