We started again!

Partially new team, interdisciplinary atmosphere and the same old trench! And of course, a lot of sunshine, fun, intensive work and many lectures! So could one sum up the first week of excavation and project.

 Just like the excavation from the last year, the 2014 archaeological campaign started also with a fresh and enthusiastic multicultural team composed of students and specialists from different universities from Germany, Hungary and Romania (Alba Iulia and Cluj Napoca). The new students were initiated in the main techniques of the excavation, including shoveling, digging or the more refined cleaning practices with trowels. They also got information about the archaeological system and documentation methodology, and had the chance to make the find collecting, recording, and measuring with total station by their own.  Even if the wheelbarrows were sometimes heavy like last year, the enthusiasm of the participants - split this year into different teams - was unbreakable.

During the first week of excavation we managed to clean the trench after removing the backfill from last year which turned to be a very energy consuming activity for many of us. The hard work, however, did compensate us with visible progress: the whole building structure is getting to be contoured better and better every day, and the relations between different contexts are also more understandable.

Parallel to the archaeological field activities, there were given also different lectures for the students which were held by the international team of specialists. The first week ended with an interesting site- and a laboratory tour where everybody could look into the different work sequences of all the particular teams.

A good start, a good progress! Good luck in the following weeks too!