Tell Aurora
Eastern Mediterranean · Excavation
Field season 2026 / applications open
READWHAT THEEARTH KEPT.
A working field school and living archive for people who want to learn archaeology by doing it—carefully, collaboratively, and in context.
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ACTIVE FIELD SEASONS
Choose a layer.
Enter the record.
Four landscapes. Four research questions. One shared standard: nothing leaves the ground without its story.
Excavation · Eastern Mediterranean
Tell Aurora
Trace how one hillside settlement moved from domestic life to regional exchange through rooms, hearths, and ceramic deposits.
8 places openOct 03 — Nov 14, 2026 season dates
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LIVING ARCHIVE
Objects are not endings.
They are witnesses.
Move over an image—or focus it—to watch context return. Every record keeps the object, the place, and the question together.
CATALOG RESPONSE
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Field seasons · 4
Object records · 3
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FIELD SCHOOL
Learn to notice
before you lift.
Our six-part preparation track moves from ethics and context to excavation, recording, finds care, interpretation, and return. The goal is not treasure. It is reliable knowledge.
- 01Context before contactCommunity, landscape, research question.
- 02Excavate with restraintTools, layers, sampling, and stop points.
- 03Make a recoverable recordDraw, photograph, locate, label, and cross-check.
- 04Care for every findStabilize, bag, store, and document before interpretation.
- 05Interpret with disciplineSeparate observation, inference, uncertainty, and alternative readings.
- 06Return knowledge responsiblyShare records with communities, repositories, and future researchers.
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FIELD APPLICATION KIT
DEVICE-LOCAL PREPARATION
Arrive with a plan.
Not a fantasy.
Prepare a clean, private field-school brief before contacting a real host. STRATA HOUSE stores this draft only in this browser. It does not transmit personal data or submit an application.
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ARCHIVE CIRCLE
Keep the work
in the open.
Membership
Reader
$0/yearOpen archive access- Public field notes
- Object stories
- Monthly research dispatch
Most useful
Desk
$108/yearFor serious learners- Everything in Reader
- Field brief library
- Live methods seminars
- Personal saved desk
Membership
Circle
$252/yearSupport the record- Everything in Desk
- Quarterly researcher salon
- Early season briefings
- Archive conservation fund
Showroom demonstration only. Choosing a plan records no payment and creates no subscription.
FIELD DISPATCH 06
The trench is not the story.
The relationships are.
Read the latest object records PROVENANCE
Built from reference.
Made into a world.
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Original product design and implementation: Sly Art Designs.
STRATA HOUSE is a fictional acquisition-ready showroom property. Its seasons, organizations, availability, memberships, and application workflow are demonstrations—not real archaeological offers.