The tenth Modern Lykaion Games were held on Sunday August 9, 2009 in a beautiful mountain meadow high on the slopes of Mt. Lykaion in Arcadia at 1182 m (4000 feet) above sea level.
The ancient hippodrome and stadium of the ancient Lykaion Games is the site of the modern athletic festival that is hosted by [...]
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August 26, 2009
Modern Lykaion Games
June 27, 2009
Geology and Landscape
This week I’ll introduce another exceptional team working at Mt. Lykaion: the geologists. It’s a team of just two—Dr. George Davis of the University of Arizona and his able assistant, Karl Yares—but they’ve managed to accomplish a tremendous amount over the course of the season. From field mapping the region to digitally processing all [...]
June 20, 2009
Spotlight on Architecture
The archaeology of the past century has seen a deepening
appreciation of the fact that excavation, even as it adds to our
knowledge of the past, destroys that past beyond recall. Unlike the
results of a scientific experiment, the results of excavation are
unrepeatable; no one will be able to dig the same trench again to see
if a [...]
June 13, 2009
Start of Excavations: June 6-12
Our first few days of digging held a surprise for us: miserable weather. Those of us in the field had to contend with low temperatures, high winds, driving rain, and even occasional hail. Who thought we’d need to pack raincoats and polarfleeces for a summer in Greece? But there was probably a [...]
June 5, 2009
Arrival in Greece: June 1-5, 2009
In the first few days of any field season, it’s always a little strange to relinquish all our other roles in life—as students, parents, programmers, professors, retirees, geologists, historians, linguists, philosophers—and turn into full-time archaeologists. But so far this year the transition has been remarkably seamless. Things began on the right foot: no [...]
August 27, 2007
Week 4: July 16-22, 2007
George Davis presenting his geological research in the Dining Palace.
George Davis gives a presentation of the results of his geological survey during the 2007 summer in the Dining Palace. The presentation features a number of new color and computer generated geological maps of the area of the southern peak of Mt. Lykaion that represent [...]
August 21, 2007
Week 3: July 9 – 15
Typical morning scene at 6:45 am packing up the four vans with the equipment for the day. The trip from Ano Karyes to the lower sanctuary takes about 10 minutes by car and to the upper site takes about 20 minutes.Our colleague from the Tripolis Ephoreia, Vassilis Papadopoulos, arrives and opens the two trenches [...]
July 31, 2007
Week 2: July 2 – 8
Digital terrain model of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion
We begin this week by laying out the trenches for the excavation that will begin during the next days. During the course of the winter, expropriation of land has been initiated so that we are able to dig trenches in several different aspects of [...]
July 16, 2007
Week 1: June 26 – July 1
Our season begins at the Athens International Airport on June 26 where most of our group meets for the drive to Mt. Lykaion. The students have come from all over the USA to assemble for our 2007 campaign. We have picked one of the hottest days of the summer when the temperatures in [...]
June 14, 2007
Welcome to the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project
Welcome to the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project in Arcadia, Greece running from June 1 – July 13, 2009, led by Dr. David Romano, Senior Researcher in the Mediterranean Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. We will have a large team in the field and we look forward [...]
