Don’t miss coverage of Carrie Murray’s archaeological practicum on the island of Pantelleria (Italy) in the Brock News.

“During the trip, she and other students became well-versed in excavation while exploring a Punic and Roman period sanctuary on the edge of the volcanic crater-lake Lago di Venere.

Led by Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology Carrie Murray, students spent a month excavating, recording and processing artifacts, which Murray said strengthened their hands-on skills while connecting students to cultural, intellectual and artistic ideas from ancient times.

“We learned about the life and death of the sanctuary site through the recovery of votive offerings, discovered new structures and even found signs of an earthquake in antiquity,” Murray said.”

In September, Dr Murray presented a paper on her work at Pantelleria at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Rome, Italy, “Excavating and Exhibiting the Punic Sanctuary at the Lago di Venere, Pantelleria.”

Murray also recently published a paper on the “Iconography of Elephants in the early 3rd century BC Italy: Pro-Roman, anti-Roman or multivalent?” Accordia Research Papers 16: 177-197.