Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist?

Contents

Chapter 1. The Background to the Letters

Chapter 2. Getting to Greece. Off to my First Dig, 1968

Chapter 3. My First Dig, Porto Cheli, 1968

Chapter 4. Fall Term at the American School, 1968

Chapter 5. Winter Term at the American School, 1969

Chapter 6. More Digs: Turkey and Back to Greece, 1969

Chapter 7. Beginning Dissertation Research, 1969-70

Chapter 8. Wrapping up the Dissertation Research. Nafplion 1970: April-August

Chapter 9. Avoiding, and Finally Starting the Dissertation, Athens 1973

Chapter 10. Finishing the Dissertation, during a Revolution

Bibliography

About the Author

Karen D. Vitelli is Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington. A member of the Franchthi Cave Project since 1968, she published two volumes on its pottery and another on the contemporary pottery from Lerna, incorporating in both her work on experimental ceramics. She now directs the Franchthi Project. She was active in archaeological ethics, chaired related committees in both the AIA and SAA, and edited several volumes on that topic. She lives in Maine.