Other Projects

 

Between 2009 and 2018, twenty UR students participated with Dr. Baughan in the Hacımusalar Höyük excavation project in Elmalı, Turkey, under the directorship of Dr. İlknur Özgen (Βilkent University, Ankara) and with the support of UR’s School of Arts & Sciences. For a report including the results of some of this work, see “Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age” American Journal of Archaeology 125.4 (2021) 603-628, https://www.ajaonline.org/field-report/4382.

 

 

 

Since 2017, Classics 220 Introduction to Archaeology has been affiliated with the East End Cemetery Collaboratory, a group of UR and VCU faculty, students, and staff working together with community members to restore and document historic African American cemeteries in the Richmond area. Student work has contributed to an online map as well as a searchable archive and collection of biographical narratives for East End Cemetery. Thanks to a Digital Pedagogy Grant in 2022, students have also begun 3D-scanning grave monuments with an iPad Pro and have started at East End Cemetery Collection on Sketchfab.

 

 

Classics 220 students have also partnered with the Richmond Society of the Archaeological Institute of America to create hands-on activities for archaeology fairs celebrating International Archaeology Day, at the Science Museum of Virginia (Diggin’ RVA, 2016) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Dig It!, 2017).

 

 

In Fall 2020, Classics 302 Roman Art and Archaeology students collaborated with Latin 101 students to create a digital exhibition of Late Roman coins in the Lora Robins Gallery: https://blog.richmond.edu/romancoins/.