Penn Museum lecture: recent fieldwork at Troy
Today K and I went to a lecture at the Penn Museum! The subject was "Recent Fieldwork: Troy, Gordion & the Granicus River Valley", and not much other info was offered on the website, but it was free and at lunchtime so we went. It turns out that C. Brian Rose (Deputy Director, Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies) is an engaging speaker! We sadly arrived ten minutes late and didn't realize we could bring our lunches, but I mostly forgot about that as we listened to Dr. Rose's talk. He's been excavating at Troy for like 25 years. He works with a German collaborator--Dr. Rose's expertise is the later Mediterranean, and the German guy focuses on Bronze Age, which is the moneymaker in Troy, but it means that wherever the German guy wants to dig, Dr. Rose has to get there first because as you dig down you hit all the Roman and Greek stuff before you get to the Bronze era. He talked about all the interesting things they've found, and the controversies they've had to deal with, and he was bright and funny. Now I know about defensive ditches and contentious Germans!
I am so sad that I didn't know about this lecture series before! I think this is probably about it for the academic year, too, because everyone will be off to their excavation seasons for the summer. There's an evening lecture in June that we're going to try to hit, but I don't see anything else after that.
I am so sad that I didn't know about this lecture series before! I think this is probably about it for the academic year, too, because everyone will be off to their excavation seasons for the summer. There's an evening lecture in June that we're going to try to hit, but I don't see anything else after that.