Dear colleagues,
partners, students and friends,
I am pleased to announce that Balkan Heritage (BH) fieldschool has just opened the application session for projects in 2009.
Balkan heritage (BH) field school (established 2003) implements projects in the areas of study, protection, restoration and promotion of sites, artifacts and practices presenting
cultural heritage of Southeastern Europe. BH participants are students, scholars and volunteers from all over the World.
2009 projects:
A BYZANTINE COLD CASE FILE -
EARLY CHRISTIAN MONASTERY-STRONGHOLD EXCAVATIONS IN VARNA
Country:
Bulgaria
July
4 - 18, 2009 (field school session dates). Excavation of an early Christian monastery-stronghold next to Varna on Black sea.
AVGUSTA TRAIANA-BEROIA-BORUI
RESCUE EXCAVATIONS PROJECT
Country: Bulgaria
July
19 - August 16, 2009 (season dates). 2 field school sessions available. Rescue excavation of the multi-period (Roman, Late Antique and Medieval) site underneath
contemporary town of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
FRESCOES-HUNTING"
PHOTO EXPEDITION TO MEDIEVAL CHURCHES OF WEST BULGARIA
9-23
May, 2009 and 3-17 October, 2009. 2 field school session available. An expediition to some abandoned West Bulgarian medieval churches and chapels (in bed condition) to document frescoes preserved inside.
HERACLEA
LYNCESTIS EXCAVATION PROJECT
Country: Macedonia
July
4 - August 2, 2009 (season dates). 2 field school sessions available.
Excavation of the ancient (Hellenistic, Roman, Late Antique) town Heraclea Lyncestis in Bitola, Macedonia.
MEZEK HERITAGE VOLUNTEER WORKCAMP
Country: Bulgaria
June
7-20, 2009. This workcamp is to support the maintenance of Mezek village archaeological sites (a Thracian tombs and medieval fortress) in the three borders area (Bulgaria-Greece-Turkey).
http://www.bhfieldschool.org