After five weeks of fieldwork and study in Porto Rafti and Brauron, the BEARS 2022 season officially ended on July 2, as the final lingering team members departed the coast and dissipated to various points on the compass. After three seasons of fieldwork – in 2019, 2021, and 2022 – that means we’re pretty much finished with the survey, although a bit of additional architectural mapping remains to be mopped up in 2023. As the dust settles and everyone gets into a proper July routine, the time has come to get down to the real work: synthesizing and proceeding towards publication of the finds! Project personnel will be getting together a final 2022 report over the next few months, so look out for updates on that here later in the summer!
Meanwhile, we’re really happy with the progress we made (and all of the fun we had) this season: here’s a photo of the team at the final party/publication planning session in late June (absent are Miriam Clinton and Elizabeth Griffin, who had to leave the party a little early, Braden Cordivari, who zipped off to Turkey for additional fieldwork after week 2, our ephorate representative Eleni Chreiazomenou, who was busy with a photo exhibition in Athens, and object specialists Myrto Georgakopoulou, Phil Sapirstein, Margarita Nazou, and Bartek Lis, who have the good sense to stay away from wild-eyed fieldworkers during the evening hours).
Thanks everyone for your hard work – and thanks as always to the blog readers for following our posts.
