Dig Director Pamela Gaber & volunteer Katherine Parker reading pottery at The Mills

Volunteer Mary Busch assisting master archaeologist (but only Pam's hubby on this dig!) Bill Dever with architectural drawings

Field school students Stephanie Scordia and Jennifer Rohrbaugh mug for the camera (good excuse for a brief break!).

Square supervisor Dan Roschnotti (yellow shirt) conversing with volunteers Kevin Welch and Julian Waldo on Theresa St. John's digging techniques?

Doesn't this look like great fun?
Volunteer Natalia Krawciw boxes an artifact.
Keeping the records up-to-date is even cooler...

Square supervisor Joanne Sidlovsky on the job.

Damian Greenwell supervising--Dig it, Diggles!

Diggles digs, too!

Dig illustrator Valerie Woefel gets out into the field to draw an intact pot in situ.

Here's the pot before it's been emptied of a handle. Rarely is a complete or almost complete pot found outside of a grave context.

Pot restoration

Basin

Volunteer Kyle Keimer does Clint Eastwood? "There are two kinds of people in this world--those with loaded guns, and those who dig."

Natalia and volunteer Amber Colella show us that digs are a great place to make new friends.

Laundry in the courtyard of "The Birdhouse" at siesta time was a regular occurrence, as volunteer Melina Smirniou demonstrates--

but what are those boys on the right up to?

Below, a few of the many weekend touring opportunities in Cyprus...
and a little bit of fun elsewhere as well.

The "boys" (clockwise from upper left--Julian, Kyle, and Isaac Rifflemacher, and field school student Steve Sharp) get back at the "girls" with a little prank of their own--sealing the Birdhouse. Why? Stay tuned!

Touring at Kolossi Castle on the way to Kourion

The palaestra at Kourion. See the world--join a dig today!

Volunteers Rita Beck, Lindsey Fine, and Christina Salinas enjoy a Saturday afternoon in the Troodos.

Damian, Felio & friends enjoying some night life

Hanging out at Bonanza with field schooler Adriel Harper, volunteers Kristen Carlson and Adam Leroy, and a host of others you've already met.

The beach can be fun too...Isaac on the left, Virginia Tech volunteers Laura McNeil and Natalia on the right.

In fact, how about some night life ON the beach? The dig celebrates July 4th at Governor's Beach with sparklers.

Mary and Adam at the Rocks of Aphrodite! Dangerous place, you two!

A Rock of Aphrodite?

Now why did those guys build a stone and mortar wall in front of the women's Birdhouse living quarters? Could it be because they awoke one morning to find all of the left shoes missing--miraculously found hanging in the olive trees at the dig site?

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