The few days I spent in Montauban were encouraging and productive. With some help from the staff at the CIAP (Centre d’interprétation de l’architecture et du patrimoine), I was able to find my way to and spend two full days in the Archives départementales de Tarn-et-Garonne. These archives house not only municipal records for Montauban […]

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After an educational time in Toulouse and a near run in with a manif of gilet jaunes protesters on my last day in town, I was ready to finally visit Montauban, the center of my study. As I work to develop my ideas and refine my theory, I have been visualizing my study of merchant networks and the social […]

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Though my voyage to France was supposed to consist of a visit to the textile museum in Mazamet, a wool producing town east of Toulouse that is incredibly well represented both in documentary sources and in the lead seal evidence, I learned the hard way that there are downsides to travelling by train. The textile […]

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Hi there, I’m Cathrine Davis! I’m a PhD student in the Anthropology department here at William & Mary under the direction of Audrey Horning, and I specialize in Historical Archaeology. Though I am still early in my degree, I have a solid direction to my dissertation research because it is building on research that I […]

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As the summer comes to a close, I have been reflecting on the different aspects of my research experience and adding finishing touches to my website. I feel very fortunate to have been able to explore a topic of my choosing through a medium of my choosing. Information is conveyed many ways in the field […]

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By the end of six weeks at the Megiddo Expedition, the rhythm of dig life had fully ingrained itself in my consciousness as the best and seemingly only way to live. Waking up at 4:30 am was natural, manual labor for seven hours expected, and pottery washing and office work in the afternoons nearly enjoyable. […]

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During weeks 5 and 6 of my research I edited existing GIS maps of the archaeological site in order to best represent the site for an untrained eye. GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, is incredibly useful technology in the field of archaeology because it allows us to process and convey multiple types of information at […]

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To be honest, I felt unorganized and a bit stressed when I arrived back on campus to begin working on my research. I knew that I had a lot of material to comb through, but I was unsure of how to convey the available information about Kiskiak. I began by reading WMCAR’s very long site […]

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Shabbat of week three marks the official halfway point of the Megiddo Expedition 2018. Sad goodbyes sent off the week three participants Thursday afternoon, as the volunteer team had become close after spending so much time together. The dig resumes Sunday morning with new students and the students, like myself, spending six weeks at the […]

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Sequel to the archaeological survey carried out in Ijebu-Ode 2017, sites were identified and excavated in the 2018 field season. These sites are situated around the vicinity of earthworks. Earthworks are common in West Africa. Some researchers have argued that the functions of earthen architectural features in the form of banks, walls, and ditches vary […]

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