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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: John M. Camp. Timecode In: 00:05:35. Timecode out: 01:29:45. Notes: Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Equipment Notes: Split Track; Decoded MS Stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: GREECE DAT # 7 Engineer: Rogosin Date: June 7, 2004 Camp = John Camp CJ = Chris Joyce JG = Jessica Goldstein JR = Josh Rogosin 00:58 JG, CJ, and JC talking about where they should start taping JG talks about scheduling. 2:22 Ambi: running water 2:40 CJ: We saw the whalebone. JC: Yup, very good. CJ: It was fun. JC: Lot¿s of neat things here. CJ: Oh yeah, where does it end? And so many that probably have stories we don¿t even know yet. 3:01 CJ: These are former. JC: Former people who did something important. They have to be dead to be on the wall. CJ: Oh, so I was going to say you¿re not there. 3:08 JC: No. It seems like I am but I¿m not. 3:11 CJ: No I wouldn¿t say so. 3:21 CJ/JS/JR/JC talking 4:30 Ambi walking 4:49 Ambi door opens to go outside, birds chirping. 5:08 Talking 5:18 Ambi: door slams. 5:22 Ambi: walking through gravel. 5:33 CJ: You don¿t get all that many visitors it seems. 5:38 JC: About a quarter of a million a year. 5:40 CJ: Is the pick up in the middle of the summer? 5:41 JC: Oh, very much so. We get, it averages about a 1000 a day. Last time I looked at the figures. 5:51 CJ: My guess is that you get a better-educated class of tourists I suppose who are interested in history rather than... 5:59 JC: could be 6:00 CJ: Just a cathedral perhaps. 6:02 JC: I¿ve never really analyzed who comes but people come down from the Acropolis. It¿s changed a lot recently because they now sell tickets, which entitle you to go to four or five sites rather than just one so you¿ve got a package and therefore it doesn¿t cost a separate entry to come so that¿s increased the attendance quite a lot. 6:25 CJ: Is that a good thing for you? 6:26 JC: Oh yeah, there¿s no point in finding this stuff if you don¿t share it with the public. 6:30 CJ: yeah. 6:32 CJ: Hello¿she¿s a journalism student. 6:37 JC: Is she? Oh very good. 6:40 CJ: We pry all sorts of information out of people. 6:44 CJ: And we¿re approaching the Heffistean. 6:50 JC: We¿re approaching the Heffistean. 6:53 CJ: And that is as it was 2,000 and 300 years ago? 6:58 JC: Pretty much. The ceiling and the roof had fallen in and the rood has been replaced then and in the medieval period but otherwise all the columns and the sidewalls have stood pretty much through antiquity. All the sculpture although somewhat battered and worn is still on the building and dates somewhere between 460 and 420 B.C. 7:18 CJ: And it sits on this hill above us but when the American school first came here in 1931 where we are was covered with dirt? 7:29 JC: It was covered with a lot of dirt and with private houses and the temple was always visible it¿s never been hidden but it used to overlook the main part of the old city 19th and earlier 20th century Athens. 7:44 CJ: And how much did people know about what lay underneath all that dirt? 7:48 JC: There had been a few excavations early in the 20th century so that there was some idea that antiquities were here. It wasn¿t absolutely certain where the marketplace or the agora might be found. But certainly 2 or 3 places there were antiquities that had been exposed or left open. 8:35 CJ: This could be a good spot I suppose? 8:37 CJ/JR/JC talking 9:00 CJ: What I¿d like you to do right now is just say who you are and what you do. 9:04 JC: My name is John Camp and I¿m the director of the agora excavations for the American school of classical studies here in Athens. 9:14 CJ: And we¿re standing at how would you describe it? 9:19 JC: We¿re n... (Notes truncated)
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