A Successful 2015 Season!

The KAMBE team has just returned from a highly successful field season.  This year we had a UBC field school and several Cornell students join the team.  You can check out the UBC students’ blogs here.  At Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios our geophysics team got complete high resolution coverage of the field around the Northeast Area, revealing a dense concentration of anomalies on the same alignment as the extant architecture, indicating what are undoubtedly several large Late Bronze Age buildings.  The excavations in Unit 7 revealed part of the central court of monumental Building XVI, including a massive stone basin with ceramic lining in the northeast corner, with benches running from the basin west and south along the room’s walls.  In Unit 3 we excavated the area where the city’s main north-south road widens from 4 m to 6 m.  It is now clear that there were multiple phases of construction here, including an earlier phase with substantial ashlar masonry (found on the last day of excavations!).  At K-AD we successfully implemented our new digital recording system with data entry directly into ArcGIS using Panasonic Toughpad tablets combined with 3D modelling of every context excavated.  Test excavations at Maroni-Vournes revealed part of a substantial Late Bronze Age wall, originally detected in both our magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar surveys.  Stay tuned for a full report…

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