Pre-Arrival:

 

Did the project staff provide you with enough information beforehand to organize your packing for and travel to the project?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          0          2          5          Average: 94%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Was the pickup arrangement made prior to the project adequately seen to by project staff?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          0          2          5          Average: 94%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Housing:

 

Were the living accommodations provided by the project adequate for your needs?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          1          3          3          Average: 86%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Comments:

 

• The bathroom flooded a lot, which is beyond your control and I don’t really care, but sometimes there was no water or whatever.

• The living accommodations were more than adequate.

 

Food:

 

Were the meals provided by the project adequate for your needs?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          0          2          5          Average: 94%

Evaluation participation: 9/13 (69% of participants)

 

Comments:

• Food was delicious- more variety at breakfast would be great though!

• The staff at Zalmoxe were incredible.  More than adequate.

 

General Logistics:

 

Did you encounter any problems with the accommodations, food or travel?

• No, everything was great

• No

• No

• Wifi not consistent, showers not working properly, water shutting off.

• No, everything went smoothly.

 

Was the project staff able to address your concerns to your satisfaction?

• Yes, totally

• Yes

• Yes

 

Lectures:

 

Were the formal lectures presented informative and useful?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          1          3          3          Average: 86%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Were the formal lectures presented interesting and engaging?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          2          3          2          Average: 80%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Comments:

• Lots of good information.   For first time students maybe include more on the basic organization/methodology/theory of excavation.

• Future considerations - a lecture on theory and another separate concerning excavation techniques and methodology.

• All lectures were excellent and informative.

• Lectures by Kaleigh and Alec were good.

 

Excavation and Survey:

 

Were the instructions provided by the project staff in the field clear and helpful?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          4          2          1          Average: 71%

Evaluation participation: 9/13 (69% of participants) 

 

Did the project staff offer you a thorough theoretical understanding of the methods being employed?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          2          2          3          Average: 83%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Did your participation in the project offer new understandings of archaeological field methods?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          1          3          3          Average: 86%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Comments:

 

• ArchaeoTek staff was helpful.  Appreciate their insight into what was happening when there were uncertainties with the other staff/participants.  It was confusing, however, to constantly be told different orders by different staff (Romanians, British, etc.).

• Was frustrating at times when given conflicting/unclear/contradictory instructions by multiple supervisors.  Improvement in clarity be appreciated greatly.

• ArchaeoTek staff was helpful and informative and any faults in their directive was due to higher organizational issues with several Romanian supervisors or poor communication from them to ArchaeoTek staff.  Addition of British and other “bosses” was confusing for students.

• Instructions could have been clearer at some points. Was often told to do multiple things by different people with different instructions.

 

 

General:

 

Was the project staff able to adequately answer all of your questions?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          0          3          4          Average: 91%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Were your interactions with the Romanian and British staff informative and helpful?

 

                      Poor    1          2          3          4          5          Excellent

Evaluation:               0          0          4          2          1          Average: 71%

Evaluation participation: 7/7 (100% of participants)

 

Comments:

• There was a lack of communication and organization in some of the higher up staff which resulted in a lot of confusion and misinformation. Understandable on a project with so many individual entities, but would recommend that trying to outline a more established chain of command might be beneficial.

• The Romanian staff was not very clear about their objectives and how to accomplish them. The British staff seemed clueless.

 

Overall Comments:

 

Please provide us with your thoughts on what you found most rewarding about your archaeological experience on the project:

 

• The amount of work completed was very impressive - the finished product was extremely satisfactory.

• Collaboration of several nations on a single project. Contribution to work on a site such as Sarmizegetusa.

• It was a cool site with a lot of interesting finds; personally, I got to excavate a couple of great finds, but I could appreciate all the good things the group uncovered.

• I have never dug this complex a site before.  It was very rewarding to actually see the stratigraphy and learn how to read it.

• It was interesting and insightful to work on a project with such varied participation.  I was able to learn a lot more about archaeological thought/process outside of my previous experience.

 

Other comments?

 

• Thank you for the opportunity.

• Amazing site. I will come back.

• I had a great time. :)

• Overall a great experience; I’m glad to have been able to work on this project.