I joined this international project in 1998, hoping for a return to fieldwork. I planned a close contextual study of Greek imported pottery at this ‘indigenous’ site. I formally left the project two years later when it became clear that I would not be able to meet any of my primary research aims (well, yes, because some of my colleagues were patently fruitcakes and aggressively opposed to anything I wanted to do).

>>Ian Morris took up excavation and is doing great things.

My involvement in Monte Polizzo, Sicily then became itself the subject of another project –
>> Three Landscapes Project
The objective is to model the site report – again in answer to the question of how to represent a place. Here a translation is made from site to project.

publication

Sicily: 35 archaeological moments
A performed lecture
Stanford Archaeology Center, April 2001

>>see now an on-line version

Three landscapes: a report on a year of experimental research at Stanford 2000/2001
with Clifford McLucas and Dorian Llywelyn
forthcoming