October 23, 2015
I Dig Archaeology: Excavating an Etruscan site at Poggio Civitate.
My Internship with The Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project involved excavating, conserving and cataloging finds in Murlo, Italy. I was officially given the title of a Trench Assistant as I focused on the material found in one of the many trenches at the Poggio Civitate excavation site. Not only did I learn the methods needed to run my own trench in the future but I also found Etruscan pottery as well as animal bones that were over 2500 years old! I learned how to document the excavation process, conserve the very materials I found, sort them according to type, catalog the finds and transcribe the daily log to the site database for further research. My talk will explore what being an archaeologist in Italy is all about.
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