Better Introduction
Mood:
Fine
From our project manual:
The Fayum Field School is a project to provide training for inspectors of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the latest archaeological techniques. All participants have a thorough university training and many of you have an impressive record of years of experience in the field. The "field school", therefore, is not really a "school", but a "master class": an opportunity to work together with an international team of archaeologists in order to keep your knowledge up to date.
The Fayum Field School is a project of the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP), financed by USAID and administered by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). The director of the field school is Dr. Willeke Wendrich, Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).
The field school forms part of a larger research project, the UCLA / RUG (Groningen University, The Netherlands) Fayum project, under direction of Dr. Willeke Wendrich and Dr. René Cappers. The UCLA/RUG Fayum project is titled The Fayum as an Agricultural Landscape: settlements, field systems and shore lines from the prehistory to present. The research of the field school forms an important part of the work of the project and your work within the field school will be part of the publication. An on-line report of the work of the field school will be made public weekly on the Fayum Project web site.
In Fall 2002 the Fayum field school concentrates on the Greco-Roman village of Medinet Watfa (ancient Philoteras). We will start excavation there on September 21, 2002 and the work will be finished before the start of Ramadan in early November.
The Fayum Field School is a project to provide training for inspectors of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the latest archaeological techniques. All participants have a thorough university training and many of you have an impressive record of years of experience in the field. The "field school", therefore, is not really a "school", but a "master class": an opportunity to work together with an international team of archaeologists in order to keep your knowledge up to date.
The Fayum Field School is a project of the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP), financed by USAID and administered by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). The director of the field school is Dr. Willeke Wendrich, Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).
The field school forms part of a larger research project, the UCLA / RUG (Groningen University, The Netherlands) Fayum project, under direction of Dr. Willeke Wendrich and Dr. René Cappers. The UCLA/RUG Fayum project is titled The Fayum as an Agricultural Landscape: settlements, field systems and shore lines from the prehistory to present. The research of the field school forms an important part of the work of the project and your work within the field school will be part of the publication. An on-line report of the work of the field school will be made public weekly on the Fayum Project web site.
In Fall 2002 the Fayum field school concentrates on the Greco-Roman village of Medinet Watfa (ancient Philoteras). We will start excavation there on September 21, 2002 and the work will be finished before the start of Ramadan in early November.
Previous Entry :: Next Entry
Back to Top
