I am deeply grateful to ASOR and to the late Mrs. Katherine Barton Platt for the Platt Fellowship, which made my wonderful trip to Jordan possible this summer. I thank you, and all ASOR fellowship donors, whose contributions […]
Let’s be honest, excavation is the most glamorous part of archaeology. Digging is what an archaeologist dreams of. And it is this romantic aspect of archaeology that the media and wider public are entranced by. Rightly so! Excavation is amazing! […]
I owe a huge thanks to the ASOR fellowship donors for providing the assistance I needed to participate on the Kalavasos and Ayios Demetrios Built Environment (KAMBE) project this summer in Cyprus. […]
This summer, thanks to ASOR and a generous Platt Fellowship, I was again able to participate in ongoing fieldwork at the Omrit Settlement Excavation Project in the northern Galilee of Israel. […]
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Welcome to the Trench of Wonder and Walls
I would like to first and foremost thank the donors who contributed to the Platt and other ASOR fellowships allowing me, other students, and researchers alike to go out into the field this summer. These funds covered my travel […]
Thanks to ASOR’s Platt Fellowship, I was able to participate in the Petra North Ridge Project (PNRP) this summer. The Petra North Ridge Project is an excavation that began in summer. It focuses […]
This year I had the good fortune to be asked to join the Madaba Plains Project to work on the Tall al-‘Umayri Archaeological Project in Jordan. I must thank ASOR and the G. Ernest Wright Fellowship donors, Eric and Carol Meyers, for their […]
This summer, I had the opportunity to work as a tomb supervisor in the Petra North Ridge Project (PNRP) in Petra, Jordan. The Petra North Ridge Project (Facebook Page), co-directed by Dr. Megan Perry and Dr. Tom Parker, consists of the excavation of two different type of structures […]
Ever since I first studied abroad in Sweden, Bilbo Baggin’s quote, “I’m going on an adventure!” has been my theme when traveling. I am so grateful that ASOR and the ASOR donors made it possible for me […]
This summer, I was very fortunate, thanks in a large part of the help of my ASOR Fellowship, to return to the site of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel, where I worked last summer. The site is located halfway between Jerusalem and Ashkelon. It’s a large, multi-period Tell, perhaps most well known […]
This summer I had the great privilege of participating in the final dig season for the Leon Levy Expedition at Ashkelon. I am extremely thankful to ASOR’s Heritage […]
My fieldwork this summer took me back to the scenic Hula Valley, in the northeastern reaches of Israel’s Upper Galilee. It is in the Hula, in the foothills of Mount Hermon, where the Omrit […]
This was my third season working at Hippos-Sussita, under the auspices of the University of Haifa Zinman Institute of Archaeology and in collaboration with partners from Concordia University […]
Dig seasonis our 18th at Tall al-‘Umayri (part of the Madaba Plains Project). Over the seasons we have uncovered an intact Early Bronze Age dolmen, a well-preserved Late Bronze Age Temple […]
Instead of going back to home in Korea for the summer break, I decided to join my University’s Archaeology/Anthropology Summer Tour in Jordan. I’m not an Archaeology major nor an Anthropology major, but because I started a research under my professor, Oystein LaBianca, who has been in charge of this yearly […]
