SEASON'S END   Photos from 2007 Michael Thomas photographs, Jess Galloway draws walls, while Ivo van der Graaff and Megan Burns measure and draw scarps   Aaron Bartels, Ivo van der Graaff, Robert Vander Poppen and Greg Warden take final photos   Students cover excavated trenches with mesh prior to backfilling   Shoveling sifter dirt into wheelbarrow for backfilling trenches   Shoveling the end of the sifter pile into buckets for trench backfill   Students haul dirt in buckets from sifter piles back to the trenches during backfill   Kathleen Loyd Lambert and Hilary Serra trade buckets   Backfill almost complete on Poggio Colla   Photos from 2005 Lauren Jackson (foreground), Ivo van der Graaff, Ben Luley, and Angela Trentacoste taking levels and making final drawings of Poggio Colla trenches.   Jeff Edwards, Jess Dussling, and Robert Vander Poppen making final drawings of PC 23.   Heather Neale, Official Scarp Manager, repairing rain-damaged scarp of PC 23.   Jeff Edwards perfecting scarp and Anne Hooton drawing the hearth in PC 23 during Week 6.   Photos from 2004 Cookie break for field staff and key students doing final drawings.   Aaron Bartels and Martha Reichert drawing PC 23 scarp.   Jess Galloway, Jeff Edwards, and Aaron Bartels watching final photo shoot.   Katy Blanchard, Estelle Thomas, Sanda Heinz, Lynn Makowsky, and Abby Christofferson shoveling for backfill in the Podere Funghi.   Backfilling trenches in the Podere Funghi at the end of the 2004 season.   Bucket brigade during 2004 Poggio Colla backfill.   Backfilling trenches on Poggio Colla at the end of the 2004 season.     Photos from 2003 Flurry of activity on the last excavation day in the Podere Funghi.   Josh Moran explains trenches PC 24 and 26 during final trench tours.   Rachel Julis makes final drawings of Trenches PC 19 and 22.   Filling wheelbarrows to backfill Poggio Colla trenches in 2003.   Photos from 2002 Joe Cosentino, Ivo van der Graaff, Mike Glover, Justin Winkler, Katy Blanchard, and Andrea Mall shovel dirt to fill trenches on Poggio Colla at the end of the season.   Katy Blanchard and Ashley Bennett mastermind the backfilling of Trench PC 22.   Josh Moran, Jess Galloway, Michael Joyce, JustinGosses, Liz Wallace, Kirk Nickel, Tamee Bollinger, and Jessica Legershovel sifter dirt into buckets and wheelbarrows for the return to the trenches.   Justin Gosses, Kirk Nickel, Michael Joyce, and Andy Bozanic shovel dirt for backfill on Poggio Colla.   Meg Common, Lynn Makowsky, Jenny Muslin, Sarah Titus, Ashley Bennett, Hillery Pous, and Candace Grove work on the team backfilling Trench PC 23.   2002 students wave goodbye as they leave the dig on the train from Vicchio to Firenze.     Photos from 1999 - 2001 Ashley Bennett and Kate Topper stand in the mesh-linedTrench PC 18, guiding students who pass earth-filled buckets down to them during backfill.   On the last day, the floor and scarps of each trench are cleaned for final drawings and photography. Here, Kate Topper works in Trench PC 18.   Kay Johnson sweeping Trench PC 19 for final drawings and photography.   The survey team, Jess Galloway and April Kramer, shot thousands of points for the survey map during the last few days of the season. Above: April works on a series of points in the data collector.   Jess Galloway makes detailed plan drawings of all the stones and blocks in each trench.   One of Jess Galloway's trench drawings underway.   Each Field Supervisor chooses one student to help with the measurements and triangulation for final drawings in the trench field notebook. Here, Kate Topper and Ashley Bennett draw the stratigraphy in the scarps of Trench PC 18.   Randi Graham measures and Sarah Kupperberg draws scarps in Trench PC 15 in 1999.   . At the end of the season, dig photographers are up at daybreak and dusk for final trench photography. Robert Vander Poppen assisted Greg Warden in 1999.   1999: Michael Thomas, Greg Warden, Jess Galloway, and Justin Winkler analyze and interpret the arx architecture and the season's discoveries.   Co-Directors: Gregory Warden gwarden@mail.smu.edu and Michael Thomas mlthomas@mail.utexas.edu Excavation house phone during the field season: (011-39) 055-844-9834