Cleaning Time

We finally have received permission from the British base to work out at our site. Since the students leave this coming weekend, this means re-prioritizing and frantic days of fieldwork.  One of the top priorities has been to clean up the site of Pyla-Koutsopetria so that we can complete the documentation of both our excavations and the architecture exposed by previous work on the site.

Cleaning a site involves removing invasive weeds, "winter wash" (that is dirt that has come into the site over the winter months), and trimming up the inevitable slumping of our once carefully cut scarps.  It's pretty tedious work, but since we've spent the previous two-and-a-half weeks in the museum, the students (and staff) attacked these jobs with extra energy.

 

 

We also lost the services of our hardworking cook today; Chester Beltowski left early this morning to return to Grand Forks.  This leaves us with a different cleaning situation...