(Crossposted at The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project) At 5:15 AM, the cityscape of Larnaka is just beginning to appear in the dawn. This morning we will fully begin our work at the site of Pyla-Vigla. Remarkably, we have already been in Larnaca 10 days and will be here for another 15. Almost halfway through our season, [...]
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PKAP 2012 Season Begins
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Student Activities, Student Research on May 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Gearing up for the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Courses, Digital History, Study Abroad on May 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The final day of classes are wrapping up here in Grantham, PA. There’s a sense of relief in the air among students, who have been pushing hard for the last 12 weeks, as well as the faculty responsible for their assignments. It’s hard to believe that two weeks from now, 9 Messiah College students and [...]
Service Day at the Stouffer Farm and Cemetery
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Local History, Service Projects, Student Opportunities on March 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This year for Service Day, the History Club is once again participating in an archaeological project at Stouffer Farm and the nearby cemetery. We will be doing this in conjunction with the Oakes Museum and adult learners from Messiah Village Pathways Institute for Lifelong Learning. Some of you may have participated in the "Big Dig" [...]
Curator Club in Archaeology Event
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Student Opportunities on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Next Saturday, the Oakes Museum of Natural History at Messiah College will partner with the Department of History in one of their Curator Club days for elementary aged children. We will be returning to the Stouffer Farm Excavations to open up several new units in the yard of the Blacksmith shop. For our previous work [...]
Discovering Cyprus Through the Ages with David Pettegrew and Melissa Hogan
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this podcast discussion with professor David Pettegrew and 2011 Messiah history graduate Melissa Hogan. Dr. Pettegrew and Melissa discuss their archaeological work in Cyprus. If you are a history major, history minor, or someone interested in archaeology, you may know that Dr. Pettegrew takes students every May term to Cyprus. Contact him for [...]
Preserving the Stouffer Cemetery (Service Day 2011)
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Local History, Public History, Service Projects, Student Activities on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last month, Messiah College’s History Department, History Club, and the Oakes Museum of Natural History combined forces for the 2011 annual Service Day. In the past, the history club and department have participated in service activities like painting houses and construction projects, and last year the service project was discipline-based: cleaning artifacts from the excavation [...]
Stouffer Farm Videos
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Service Projects, Student Activities, Student Research, Videos on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Oakes Museum of Natural History has posted 14 short videos on their Youtube channel related to our collaborative archaeological venture this spring at the Stouffer Farm near Dillsburg. In going through them yesterday, I noticed appearances from a number of history students: For an introduction to our work at the farm, see my overview in Video [...]
Melissa Hogan on Cypriot Mosaics
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Student Activities, Student Research on May 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last Tuesday, history department faculty and students listened to the third and final senior honors thesis of the 2010-2011 year: Melissa Hogan’s “Puzzling over History: A Study of Late Antique Cyprus through Mosaic Art.” In her presentation, Melissa discussed the research she has been conducting over the last two years on mosaic floors and walls uncovered [...]
Students win summer fellowships and internships
Posted in American History, Archaeology & Material Culture, Congratulations, Student Activities on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Katie Garland, junior history major, who was accepted into the prestigious Summer Fellowship Program of Historic Deerfield. As the Deerfield website describes the program: “Based in Historic Deerfield’s eleven museum buildings, state-of-the-art exhibition and storage facility and library, all within the village of Old Deerfield, New England’s best documented town, this all expenses-paid, [...]
A Classical & Medieval European History Course – in Cyprus
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Courses, David Pettegrew, Study Abroad on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are you interested in meeting your pre-modern Europe requirement through archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean? Dr. Pettegrew is now accepting applications for his field school in archaeology near Larnaka, Cyprus in May-June 2012. In 2012, participants in the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project will be excavating a military garrison settlement of the 3rd century BC (Hellenistic date) [...]
