News - Making sure we got what we came for

Mads M. Nielsen taking down the last observations of the blocks.

Madeline Kelly and Adrian Latortue being interviewed by a newspaper journalist.

Panayiotis Athanasopoulos proudly shows of his hotdog count.

Author: Bjørn Lovén

During the weekend in the north the team was offered stunning views from Mt. Olympus, the excellent food of northern Greece, a behind the scenes visit at another archaeological project and the breathtaking splendour of Philip II.’s tomb.

Following the well deserved trip the team returned Monday morning to Koumondourou Hill for the demanding final stages of the fieldwork. While the students soldiered on at wall 6, the staff members had different assignments of their own to complete. Eva Mortensen went through the collected data from the survey to make sure that all the desired information had been recorded, while Mads M. Nielsen made the last observations of tool marks on blocks and Panayiotis Athanasopoulos photographed the small finds. Tuesday brought the team in contact with the press, as ZHP was visited by journalists doing an article on the different aspects of our project.

During the week our strength was bolstered by the arrival on Monday of the project architect, Brian Klejn-Christensen, and on Wednesday of the assistant director Mette Schaldemosse. Both had flown in from Denmark to work on earlier collected data and to lend a hand with the processing of the survey files from the last one and a half month.

Another important aspect of the assistant director’s arrival from Denmark, was that she had brought the much needed (and missed by some Danish staff members) ingredients for a proper Danish hotdog. These where consumed at the end of field work party Friday, where we had to say goodbye to Sanne Hoffmann, who cannot stay for the post-processing work yet to come.