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Little Dig: Rob Atkins (CAS’04), Krystal Chan (CAS’04),
and Allie Shartle (CAS’04) were among the graduate and undergraduate
students excavating sites on the Spanish island of Menorca this past
summer. Now in its third year, the BU Archaeological Field School on
Menorca gives students an intensive introduction to field techniques,
restoration, and cataloging materials. “The archaeology on the
island is amazing, and very few of the sites have been excavated and
researched,” says Amalia Pérez-Juez, codirector of the Menorca
field program. Because of its position in the middle of the Mediterranean,
she adds, Menorca is ideal for studying Talayotic culture, which appeared
in the Balearic islands from 2000 b.c. to Roman times. (Talayot comes
from an Arabic word for watchtower, many of which have been found on
Menorca.) “From an archaeological point of view,” says Pérez-Juez, “it’s
very interesting to see these different Mediterranean cultures represented
on a very small piece of land.” With her BU colleagues, she has
found evidence of Carthaginians and Romans on Menorca, and was surprised
to discover that Muslims had occupied the island for 300 years. Students
with no archaeological experience can enroll in the program, and are
not required to know any Spanish. For more information on next year’s
session, contact Pérez-Juez at bos.perezjuez@iie.es or visit www.bu.edu/ip/countries/menorca_summer/index.html.
Photo by Kevin Mullen
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September 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations