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[Agora Webpage] Overview: Volunteer Application

http://agathe.gr/overview/volunteer_application.html

Excavations in the Athenian Agora Volunteer Program Summer 2013 The American School of Classical Studies at Athens announces a program for volunteer excavators wishing to participate in the archaeological ... Volunteers will be trained in the basic techniques of excavation: working with pick, trowel, shovel, and wheelbarrow; cleaning and investigating stratigraphy; delicate cleaning of artifacts in the ground; sifting of excavated earth and techniques of flotation; washing and basic conservation of pottery and other objects; clerical work involved in the keeping of excavation records.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Solon the Lawgiver

http://agathe.gr/democracy/solon_the_lawgiver.html

Solon the Lawgiver By the early 6th century B.C. social tensions in Athens had become acute, pitting the poorer citizens against rich and powerful landowners. Many citizens were reduced to the status of ... The thetes or common laborers. Iron pick, date uncertain. ... Such a pick might have been used by a member of Solon's lowest class, the thetes, or common laborers.