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SWEZEY FUND TO HELP FINANCE ARCHEOLOGICAL TRIP |
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January 08, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – This spring, five students will travel to ancient Carthage, Tunisia, to help with an archeological dig, thanks to Grove City College’s Swezey Scientific and Research Fund. The “Byrsa House Site” in Carthage will serve as a classroom for senior Justin Horst of Woodbine, Md.; sophomore Andrew Welton of Grove City, Pa.; senior Katie Miller of Hudson, N.H.; junior Kelly Anderson of Titusville, Pa.; and junior Jeff Coleman of Telford, Pa. It is the first time Grove City has offered such a trip for academic credit.
Dr. Mark Graham, associate professor of history, will lead the trip with Dr. Alicia Walker, assistant professor of art history and archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. According to Graham, the course, “The History and Archeology of Carthage,” will allow students to “assist in the study of the already-excavated [artifacts], to excavate some additional areas, and to help work out a detailed plan and map of the late Roman house and how it relates to the existing site plans of urban Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic Carthage.”
Located on the southern slope of Byrsa Hill in Carthage, the Byrsa Hill house is a Byzantine dwelling built on top of an ancient Roman home. The Byzantine house was first studied in the 1890s, but the Roman home was not excavated until 1998, when archeologists began to dig there again.
The Swezey Fund will cover the students’ air-fare, transportation to and from the work site, and accommodations for 18 days, including meals. The trip will cost the students just $1,000, and will cover costs for course credit, as well as transportation for three weekend travel excursions. The students will work on the project from 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday. In the afternoons and on weekends, they will travel to various museums and other sits throughout Tunisia. The trip will run from May 24-June 10.
“There is a strong potential of student publication,” Graham said. “We will be working the entire time with unstudied material at a high profile location in Roman Carthage.”
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