Chemical Archaeology
Braving assorted adventures with TSA and US and Spanish customs inspections and approvals, the UP Team took the University’s portable XRF spectrometer to Pollèntia to test the possibility of field analysis of artifacts. Dr. Ray Bard, Associate Professor of...
Test Excavation in Ca’n Fanals Reveals a Grave
UPDATE Friday July 18 2014: This’s morning’s work has revealed more detail in the test excavation trench. The broad swath of rock once thought to be the foundation of an old wall is, in fact, limestone bedrock. The wall tentatively identified at the...
Pollèntia Teams Received by the President
Tuesday, July 15, saw all the Pollèntia research teams headed to Palma de Mallorca for a reception hosted by José Ramón Bauzà Díaz, President de les Illes Balears (Balearic Islands). The Major de Alcúdia, Dove Terrace Ventayol, met us in Palma for the reception at...
Iglesia de Sant Jaume in Alcúdia
Visible from most points in the Pollèntia excavation site, the Iglesia de Sant Jaume was completed in 1893, on the site of an earlier church dating to the fourteenth century. The original structure collapsed in 1870 and was replaced by the current Gothic church...
They Found the Wall! (…and a grave)
At dinner on Wed July 16, Director Miguel Cao reminded the UP Pollèntia Team that we stood about a 10% chance of seeing the wall and grave from the 1920s excavation uncovered at the spot we predicted; in fact, the Barcelona group often makes several test trenches...Subscribe by Email
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