A Successful 2016 Field Season!

The KAMBE team has just returned from another successful field season.  A small team of undergraduate and graduate students from UBC, Cornell, Brown and SUNY Buffalo worked at both K-AD and Maroni-Vournes.  Excavations in Unit 3 at K-AD shed light on the phasing of construction of the urban centre’s main north-south road as it approached Building X.  At Vournes, test excavations south of the existing site fence revealed a massive (nearly 2 m wide), deeply buried wall of large cobbles that appears to date to the Late Cypriot I period.  Long time team member Catherine Kearns is taking up her new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago and led new survey work at the rural Iron Age site of Kalavasos-Vounaritashi.  Our geophysics team, led by Thomas Urban, continued work at K-AD and Vournes, while also starting new work at Vounaritashi and, in cooperation with the Department of Antiquities, the area around Maroni-Aspres.  More on these exciting discoveries to follow…

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