It seems like the Pyla-Koustopetria Archaeological Project begins earlier every year. Fall is grant writing season with three grants, two external and one internal, waiting to go off my desk in the next two weeks. David Pettegrew, Scott Moore, and I met this past week (in Second Life!) and began to discuss matters of staffing, student programs, and logistics. Our research goals for this next season are fairly well-established as we have received considerable encouragement and support from the Department of Antiquities. Maria Hadjicosti, the curator of the Cyprus Museum and our collaborator, urged us to conduct a few more soundings to ground-truth some of the more intriguing results from our intensive pedestrian survey and geophysical survey on Vigla and Kokkinokremos. We will also conduct some soundings at Koutsopetria in order to clarify some stratigraphic and architectural issues in advance of the final publication of Dr. Hadjicosti's earlier excavation at the site in the 1990s. Finally, we are working on an advanced publication of the results from the survey. This paper will be more synthetic and interpretative than our preliminary reports in the Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus. We'll also have a poster once again at the Archaeological Institute of America's Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this January.
It's exciting that our project is taking shape this early in the year and bodes well for the 2009 season!
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