Hello world!

 You’ve found the only place in the world where “the rest of us” can enjoy the cultural history of the world without dedicating our lives to it or having to get a degree in it. This site was created to share our journeys with the COTSEN Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

As a member of the COTSEN Director’s Council, we have the honor and the pleasure to travel to some of the most amazing excavations and dig sites in the world, accompanied by