Archaeological Award
2007
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We were delighted with the response to Andante
Travels Archaeological Award 2007 –
although the decision-making process was extremely
difficult due to the exciting range of projects
submitted. Below, we showcase some of these
enterprises, with the permission of the applicants,
as we know that some of Andante’s Travellers
are interested, helpful and sometimes very generous!
We
are now seeking applications for this year’s
award. If you would like to apply, please send us a
description of the project you believe would benefit
from the award (it can be your own!), outlining how
the money would be spent, and how this project would
be helped.
Please
limit your application to one side of A4 paper and
send a either a hard copy to:
Ellen
Simpson, Andante Travels, The Old Barn, Old Road,
Alderbury, Salisbury, SP5 3AR or email your document
to
ellen@andantetravels.co.uk.
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Longovicium - Lanchester’s Roman Fort, Durham
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Longovicium, the Roman fort close to the village
of Lanchester, near Durham, is considered to have
perhaps the greatest overall research potential of
any Roman fort and vicus in northern England.
This is due to its variety of features and the lack
of sub-surface disturbance and post-Roman development
of the site. The friends of Longovicium applied for
the Andante Archaeological Award in order to
undertake training and further investigate the site.
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For more information
please contact:
Anne McKenzie, The Friends of Longovicium,
The Lanchester Partnership, 2 Oakwood, Lanchester,
Durham, DH7 ONP
www.communigate.co.uk/ne/lanchesterpartnership
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The Engravings at Wadi-al-Hayat, Libya
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The Wadi al-Hayat in Libya has been an important
focus for human occupation and cultural development
over the last 9000 years.
The changing
relationships between people and the environment of
the wadi are captured in hundreds of rock
carvings that range from large, deeply incised
engravings of wild African game to small, stylised
depictions of humans and domesticated animals such as
camels and horses. Dr Tertia Barnett’s
application for the Andante Archaeological Award was
made in order to concentrate on making a detailed
study of specific cultural features of the carvings
and assist in experimentation with 3D digital
recording techniques.
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For more information
please contact:
Dr Tertia Barnett, Royal Commission on the Ancient
and Historical Monuments of Scotland, John Sinclair
House, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh EH8 9NX
www.libyarockart.com
Email tertiabarnett@hotmail.com
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The Development of Farming in Croatia
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The transition from hunter- gatherer to
agriculturalist is arguably the most important event
in human prehistory. Plants and animals,
domesticated in the Near East spread via two routes
(Mediterranean and Anatolian) to arrive in Croatia c.
6000 BC. The geographical position of Croatia allows
both routes of agricultural spread to be examined.
Who were the early farmers of coastal and inland
Croatia?
Kelly Reed began work on this project this year and
is keen to rent premises to float and examine soil
samples, thus her application for our award.
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For more information
please contact:
kellyreed@hotmail.co.uk
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The Late Bronze Age site at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham,
Egypt
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The site of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham (ZUR) is
located on the Mediterranean coast 300 Kilometres
west of Alexandria. Founded by Ramesses II in around
1270 BC, the site was once a fortress designed to
prevent incursions of Libyan groups from Cyrenaica
disrupting international trade. As the site was
abandoned around the time of the death of Ramesses
II, it is a site with only
one major phase
of occupation – the Late Bronze Age.
This has allowed Stephen Snape’s team from the
University of Liverpool to examine in some detail a
unique Late Bronze Age town. The Application to the
Andante Travel Archaeological Award was undertaken to
protect and make accessible this important site.
For more information
please contact:
S.R.Snape@liverpool.ac.uk
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Arediou Vouppes (Lithosouros): A Late Bronze
Age Farming Community on Cyprus
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Arediou Vouppes is a Late Bronze Age settlement in
central Cyprus. The site has previously been
identified as an agricultural support village, based
on the large quantites of pithos sherds (storage
jars) and ground stone tools found on the surface.
The current project at this site addresses the
archaeological definition of a farming settlement
from its material and economic remains.
Louise Steel, of the University of Lampeter, applied
for the Andante Travels Archaeological Award in order
to carry out further geophysical surveys to identify
the extent of the site.
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For more information
please contact:
Department of Archaeology & Anthropology,
University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, UK,
SA48 7ED
Tel: 01570 422351
Fax: 01570 423669 Email: a.mackie@lamp.ac.uk
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The Villa Vignacce Project, Rome, Italy.
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The American Institute for Roman Culture’s
Villa delle Vignacce Excavation Project began in
2006, and has already been hailed as one of
Rome’s most exciting discoveries. The Villa
of Quintus Servilius Pudens, a weathly second century
A.D. brick maker has a bath complex which is in an
excellent state of preservation. The lavishness
of its marbles and glass mosaic ceiling and its long
term use gives us a historical record of second
century Roman life.
The Andante Travels Archaeological Award was applied
for to contribute to the substantial conservation
costs of this project.
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For more information
please contact:
lynda@romanculture.org
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Pistiros: An Iron Age River Port and Emporion in
south-eastern Europe
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Among the most unexpected and engaging discoveries
in south-eastern Europe during the last two decades,
has been an inland port on the largest waterway north
of the Aegean Sea, near the town of Vetren, close
to the foothills of the Rhodope mountains in southern
Bulgaria. This story reflects the changing
intellectual climate of Classical archaeology in the
late 20th century. The economic and
cultural interconnections that have been
revealed, through archaeological research,
between Mediterranean communities and neighbouring
regions, throughout the second half of the first
millennium BCE, have expanded conceptions of what
we call the ‘Classical world.’
Excavations at Pistiros have shown that distance
was no barrier to various kinds of exchange.
Boatloads of tile, ceramic, and probably high value
products, some from Aegean sources, others from sites
down river, were shipped up to Pistiros, a distance
of several hundred kilometres, from the estuary near
the modern Greek-Turkish border. The team, from The
University of Liverpool, applied to Andante Travels
for a grant to extend the environmental sampling
programme.
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For more information
please contact:
Z.Archibald@liverpool.ac.uk
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