Backdirt is the newsletter of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

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Spring/Summer 02


Locating Indus Civilization Pyrotechnological Craft Production
by Heather M.-L. Miller

Applying surface survey methods and geomagnetic techniques

Horace's Farmhouse Found Beneath Horace's Villa Site by Charles Steinmetz

Did the Roman poet and the satirist Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC)--Horace--live in a modest farmhouse, as he tells us in his writings, or in a 20,000-square-foot villa, which most archaeologists have attributed to him?

Director's Message
by Charles Stanish


The CIOA as a model for the future of archaeology


On Site

News from In and Around the Institute of Archaeology

Ruth Baus Honored


Book News

Four new books and more to come!


Research Notes

Q&A on geophysics in archaeology with Research Associate Brian Damiata


Field Notes

News from Research Associates of the Cotsen Institute



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