First Few Weeks

Our first few weeks at the AVP have been quite eventful. We opened up previously excavated units to examine our identified features. We also welcomed our International cohort, who immediately began to find amazing artifacts. A few of our local friends have popped by, and we'd like to see more of you. We'll be at the site Thursday and Friday, though on Friday we'll close a bit early to attend the Pow Wow. We'll be back Monday the 22nd and excavate through the week.

International volunteers at the screens. From left, Ata from Turkey, Irineo from Mexico, and Cristina from California (originally from Spain, via Germany...it's complicated).

More of a pot that was first discovered at the end of last season.

Stephanie from Schenectady and Daryll from England measure in even more pottery before removal.

One of our Andreas from Italy works with a wood tool (aka a skewer).

Ata works with Judith from France and Cristina (hiding in back) to repair a screen.

From left, Jan from the Czech Republic, Ata, Irineo, our other Andrea from Italy, and Cristina process artifacts on a rainy Wednesday morning.

Find of the week: a rim sherd that appears to pre-date our village.

Julia from Germany excavates a large section of pottery.

Andrea looks on as Cristina shows a biface fragment she found.

Cristina's biface fragment: a Jack's Reef base.

A curious site visitor.

AVP VFP 2019

This season, our international Volunteers for Peace program will run from July 13 to July 27, as we welcome up to 8 volunteers from around the world. VFP partners with local volunteer organizations in each country, to make it easier to apply for and obtain a visa. You can email them at vfp@vfp.org to ask about partner organizations in your country. A list can also be found on their website at
www.vfp.org. The AVP project code is VFP-STV05-19.

Field Season 2019

Our dates for the 2019 season are official: July 8 through August 15. We are gearing up for another great season of archaeology and education! See you soon!

                         Potsherd with ancient repairs evident from Bockmier One.

New Features to Map

We're beginning to get a clearer picture of the features in the southwest corner of the field. In addition to the thermal feature (orange area), few postmolds have turned up (dark circular stains), and we will follow them to see if a structure was present.

Leonie examines an artifact she found during excavations at Canticle Farm's Bockmier Site.

7th Annual Overlook Photo

We made it up to the overlook once again, for the seventh annual installment...

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Meet the International Volunteers

Every year we host a new cohort of volunteers who participate int he Volunteers for Peace program, and this year seven volunteers are joining us from across Europe.

Leonie, here seen working the screens, is from Berlin, Germany.

Patrick, our only American VFP volunteer, hails from Arlington, Virginia, though he has traveled extensively.

Amaury is from Nancy, in eastern France.

Nathan lives in Sabran, in southern France.

Javier, seen excavating in a test unit, spends part of the year in Barcelona, and part in Girona, Spain.

Anna comes to us from Brno, in Czechia.

Emil lives in Espoo, in southern Finland. 

Come on down to the dig to meet and work with them!