WHAT'S NEW   MVAP House Rules for Field School Participants Cooking with Larry: Operations Manager Larry Lehman's adaptations of Tuscan recipes he uses for delicious additions to our excavation lunches. "A Comparative Assessment of the Hellenistic Black-Glaze Pottery of Various Excavated Areas of Poggio Colla and the Podere Funghi" by Kacie Coughlin, Wes Court, Jessica Galeano, and Jen Polguy of Franklin and Marshall College can be found on the Franklin and Marshall Ceramics page of this website. Click here to see a VERY LARGE (over 3 Mb) jpeg file of the report in poster format as originally created by the students. It will take quite a while to download! If you do not have a high speed internet connection, you should probably refer to the ceramics page link above. Franklin and Marshall College is now a major sponsor of the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project and Poggio Colla Field School QuickTime VR of students working on Poggio Colla and in the Podere Funghi (this works best with Internet Explorer): QuickTime VR. Field School Manual: excerpts from the Field School Manual, including an Introduction and Course Requirements, Excavation and Cataloguing Procedures, and an Etruscan chronology. Insider's Guide to the Mugello: a guide to some of our favorite places, including restaurants and lodging. Bipod Photography: project conducted in the Podere Funghi in July 2001 by Jamison Miller, the photographer of Poggio Civitate. Ground-Penetrating Radar Project conducted in 2001, by Dr. Frank Vento of Clarion University. 2000 Archaeological Workshop on Recent Excavations in Tuscany: Poggio Civitate and Poggio Colla: information about this conference held at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland on August 11 and 12, 2000. Operations: daily life of the Operations Manager and Housing Manager, including the recycling program, purchasing, and other duties. Environmental Issues: a landfill proposed by the city of Florence for a site in a pristine section of the Mugello Valley will destroy wildlife habitats, farmland, and drain into the watershed of the Sieve River. This page has photos of the area that will be destroyed. The Environs: a photo journal of the Mugello Valley and its people. Resistivity Prospection: a project directed by Dr. Dario Monna from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome, 19 July 1999; updated in 2002. SMU M.L.A. Program Page: photos and journal entries by students on the 2-week M.L.A. program that joins the regular Poggio Colla Field School.