April 3, 2026 by Kevin Ennis One of our 2025 Julie Herzig Desnick Endowment for Archaeological Field Survey Grant recipients, Kevin Ennis, provides us with an update: Project Overview The Khora of Archaic Morgantina Project (KAMP) is investigating the social and economic lives of rural communities and their relationships to the urban center of Morgantina during the colonization of Archaic (600-480 BCE) Sicily. In our inaugural 2025 season, KAMP conducted a magnetometry campaign exploring several sites beyond Morgantina’s urban core, including a flat-topped ridge located 0.5 km from the city center, previously identified through terrestrial survey in the 1990s. Alongside geophysical prospection, KAMP also reanalyzed all sherds and artifacts collected by the survey at this rural site. Our magnetometry campaign partnered with scholars associated with the University of the Pennsylvania and the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials.…