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Archaeology of College Hill, an ongoing fall term course and fieldschool for Brown undergraduates, has worked at multiple sites in the area immediately surrounding the Brown main campus. Begun in the fall of 2006 at the First Baptist Church in America, the field school moved in fall 2008 to the John Brown House Museum – one of America's grandest mansions when completed in 1788.
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BUAP was founded in 2008 to investigate parts of the North Cemetery of Abydos, seat of the earliest rulers of Egypt and the cemetery for kings of the First Dynasty. Brown's current excavations concentrate on both the very early and the very late history of Abydos, dealing with First Dynasty royal mortuary temples and monumental Ptolemaic graves and animal hypogea.
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BUPAP is designed to develop our understanding of the diachronic history of Petra in southern Jordan and its surrounding landscapes. The current project includes an intensive survey in Petra's hinterland to the north, geophysical exploration, limited excavation and mapping in the city center and in the survey region, and documentation of the various routes that led in and out of the city.
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Brown University - University of Vienna Uronarti Project, Sudan
Laurel Bestock and Christian Knoblauch, co-directors
Uronarti, an island in the Nile in Lower Nubia (modern Sudan), was the site of a major fortress constructed by the kings of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty. This project is working both to document the fortress and to better comprehend its setting in a complex physical and cultural landscape in order to illuminate the relationships between Egypt and Nubia at this critical period.
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The Proyecto Arqueológico Busilha - Chocolja is exploring the margins of Classic Maya polities (AD 250-900) in the Middle Usumacinta River basin of Chiapas, Mexico. Current fieldwork aims to deepen our knowledge of Maya political history through the comparative study of competing polities in the western Maya lowlands, focusing on warfare and water management around La Mar.
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Combining scientific analysis with sophisticated social interpretation to understand Nuragic and Phoenician-Punic cultural encounters and engagements in first millennium BC Sardinia, Material Practices explores the dynamics of everyday life and productive activities at the site of nuraghe S'Urachi in west central Sardinia.
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MonArch brings together a multi-disciplinary team to focus on the larger role of monasteries in medieval and early modern France. Work has been conducted, since 1982, at three sites: Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Bourgfontaine and Notre Dame d’Ourscamp. At Ourscamp, several phases of occupation – from the twelfth century to the present day – have been traced in both landscape and architectural features.
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SLAM aims to create a thorough inventory of known and unknown archaeological sites in the northern non-exclusion zone of Montserrat in the West Indies, home to numerous significant prehistoric and historic archaeological remains now under severe threat from volcanic activity and resulting population relocation.
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This regional survey project investigates the landscapes in the vicinity of the Yalburt Yaylası Hittite Sacred Pool Complex and the Köylütolu Hittite Dam in Konya Province, south-central Turkey. It examines diachronic change in the landscape, integrating archaeological, geomorphological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical research to address how landscapes are used, transformed and made meaningful.
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