~Greetings from your 2015 Block Captains! The first week here on the BAKOTA project so far has been a very hot one, but also a great one filled with a lot of hard work! Our job as a Block Captain is to act as a leader for our team of students and ensure proper protocols are followed within our blocks. Each captain has her own block and a variety of students to aid in the excavation process. In addition, one of our more important jobs is to keep track and complete all of the proper documentation for everything that goes on in our block. As things are just starting…
~ a blog by Kylie Williamson The 2015 field season is officially underway! The directors have been hard at work over the last week or so, and all of the students have found their way to Vésztö. With the addition of more undergraduates for the field school, we are now staying in two different locations. The directors and a few graduate students will be staying at the Panzio, like in previous years. The rest of us will be at the Pap-Tanya, or the playground as they call it, which is about a 15-minute walk to the Panzio. The directors are envious of our pool, but the younger, more wired students…
– blog post by Ed Bormann This past semester I took the course “Practicing Archaeology” with Professor Giblin at Quinnipiac University. The final project in class was to design a lab exercise that would help students learn a key concept in archaeological methods. I wanted to come up with a lab that would not only be interesting and allow us to put what we had learned in class into practice, but would also give me data and an idea of what I could be doing in Hungary this summer as part of the NSF-REU BAKOTA field school. The general idea was easy enough to come up with, find some way…
A blog post by Justine Tynan
I have been working with the BAKOTA project since my freshman year in 2013, and I will be heading back for the third time this summer . . .
We’re happy to announce that we’ve chosen our applicants for the 2015 season BAKOTA season! We’re now in the process of finishing our analyses from last summer, planning our 2015 excavation strategy, and organizing student projects.
The BAKOTA field school (July 3-August 14, 2015) is now taking applications. Over six weeks , project members will excavate at the Békés 103 cemetery and investigate the emergence of social complexity in the Bronze Age. For more information on the field school, click here.
Vasárnapi Hírek updates their story from the 2014 season with some of our new results.
‘Dr. Bones comes to mind,’ an article in the Vasárnapi Hirek where journalist Péter Rácz and photographer Márton Kállai meet the BAKOTA team.
Yesterday we had our end of the season party and some of the students threw together a little presentation about BAKOTA 2014 excavation season. Here is a slightly reduced version of it. Thank you, Amy, Martin, Monique and Zsolt for spearheading this and everyone else for contributing!
As we are nearing the end of the season, we are breaking from the usual routine more and more. Yesterday the last day of excavations at Békés 103 turned out to be second to the last and the most atypical we’ve ever had. It started with a rain. Crazy rain and howling wind woke many of us in the middle of the night. Justine and Katie both were out of beds saving our pottery and bones left to dry on the terrace the day before. Not surprisingly, people were slow to get out of their beds for the breakfast. As the rain kept pouring, all but Julia, Monique and Russell,…