ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION METHODS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- MARCO PERESANI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- BIO/08
Training objectives
- By participating to both seminars and field activities students will acquire the basic information on the methods applied in field archaeology.
Prerequisites
- optional
Course programme
- Brief history of the discipline. Conservation of materials with respect to depositional environments. Field prospecting techniques. Techniques of excavation, documentation and survey. Field practice of excavation, documentation and survey.
Establishing an archaeological excavation area. Positioning methods. Excavation methods. Documentation methods. Managing archaeological finds. Sorting archaeological finds. Storage.
Methods of analysis of natural and anthropic archaeological finds. Didactic methods
- Seminar and field activity
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral
Reference texts
- PDF presentations of the seminars will be available
