Alex Walthall, Randall Souza, Jared Benton, Elizabeth Wueste (2018): “Preliminary Report on the 2015 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP)”

In its third season, the Contrada Agnese Project (CAP) continued archaeological investigations in the remains of a building, located near the western margins of the ancient urban center of Morgantina. In 2015, excavations opened a larger portion of the so-called Southeast Building, extending from the trenches opened during the 2014 season. These investigations yielded evidence from construction trenches and sub-floor fills that now allow a preliminary dating of the building’s phases. The building appears to have had a short life, having been built and abandoned within fewer than 75 years,…

Postmodern archaeology with a dash of magic realism

A review of Challenging the dichotomy. The licit and the illicit in archaeological and heritage discourses [Ed. by Les Field, Cristobal Gnecco and Joe Watkins]. University of Arizona Press. ISBN: 9780816531301