*One of our 2025 John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship winners, Megan Savoy, provides us with an update:* My project examines whether the Early Iron Age (EIA, 950 – 700 BCE) in Southern Italy was a period of recovery and transition after the collapse of the Late Bronze Age (1120-950 BCE) through the lens of a bioarchaeological case study in Salento (the ‘heel’ of Italy). I was awarded the John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship which I used to fund four months of pilot research to examine skeletal remains from an EIA communal burial, Hypogeic Tomb 1, that was previously excavated at the archaeological site of Roca Vecchia. The aims I proposed were to: 1) clean and identify the skeletal remains excavated from 2022 and 2008; 2) age and sex estimations; and 3) identify disease and trauma patterns. I arrived in September at the Roca Vecchia Field School 2025 as the bioarchaeologist specialist.…