The Water Diviner
For forty years I have relied on remote sensing in Italy before starting to excavate. Mostly it has worked out well. In 1978 I found...
Climate change and ‘The Fate of Rome’, today
Silvio laments the winds, the constant winds which have whipped our house and deposited extraordinary amounts of North African sand on...
Vetricella 8th week
Dust blows everywhere, it has been an exceptionally dry October. This makes the digging at Vetricella for our nEU-Med project harder but...
Tuscany and the origins of the Euro (nEU-Med)
For two years now we have been pursuing an archaeological research project based in western Tuscany funded by the EU's Advanced ERC prog
Remembering Riccardo Francovich
Rocca San Silvestro, Tuscany. Ten years since my friend, Riccardo Francovich died in an accident. His students with funds largely from...
Snails at S. Pietro ad Palazzuolo
Monteverdi Marittimo, Tuscany. I first ate snails at S. Pietro in Palazzuolo in a huge old farmhouse following a torrential downpour. The...
Unearthing a Mediterranean Valley: S. Marta, Tuscany
Cinigiano, Tuscany. Few places in the Mediterranean have been as comprehensively studied by archaeologists as this Tuscan commune. On the...
