HOME AWAY HOME for STUDENTS and STAFF
On a glorious autumn weekend, students and staff made their way to the lovely harbour town of Batsi which will be home for the various team members over the course of the dig season.
We began our stay with a welcome dinner on Sunday evening at the Café Kantouni Pension, meeting our generous hosts, the directors and getting to know one another before the work on site begins!
Introducing Sanju Vairav, an Australian high school history and geography teacher in Sydney, volunteering on the Zagora Archaeological Project this year.
Day 3 saw the students begin the day on site with Andrew Wilson, the Zagora Archaeological Project’s GIS specialist, running a hands-on workshop on plotting and stringing out a trench area manually without the use of digital technology. Learning such basic fieldwork skills are an essential part of archaeological training.