| ROMAN THEATER OF CLUNIA Burgos, Spain Season: July
2010 Period: Roman One of Spain's most fascinating Roman cities, Clunia was a hub of northern Hispania during the 1st and 2nd centuries. So far archaeologists have uncovered the Forum, several important houses, the basilica and two bath complexes. We will be excavating the city's 9,000-seat theater, the largest in the Iberian Peninsula. In past years our crews have shed new light on the construction and usage of the theater. |
NECROPOLIS
OF PINTIA Valladolid,
Spain
Season: June, July, August 2010 Periods: Iron Age, Roman The Vaccean (Celtic-Iron Age) culture settled in Pintia around the 5th century BC, later conquered by the Romans. Over the past decade, excavations of the necropolis, which was used between the 4th century BC and the 1st century, have uncovered around 200 cremation burials. Many of the burials have provided important information and artifacts relating to the settlement's social structure and the culture's warrior class. This summer we will continue the excavation of Pintia's Iron Age necropolis.
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| MONTE
TESTACCIO Rome,
Italy
Season:
September/October 2010 Period: Roman Monte Testaccio
is an artificial hill inside the walls of Rome, formed exclusively
by the fragments of discarded amphorae - many of which still bear
the markings of the contents and the exporters who transported
them - that arrived in Rome during
the 1st to 3rd centuries. Once an
ancient pottery dump, Monte Testaccio is now one of the world's
largest archives of Roman commerce. |
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM AT POLLENTIA Mallorca, Spain
Season: July 2010 Period: Roman, Medieval Our High School team will join the ongoing excavation of the Roman Forum of Pollentia, a settlement in northern Mallorca which was founded by the Romans in 123 BC. The ruins of the city are the best preserved Roman remains on the island and they have become an important reference for the study of the spread of Roman culture in the Mediterranean. This program is open for students ages 16 and 17 (grades 11 and 12). |
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Periods: Byzantine Participants will join the restoration/excavation project at the paleo-Christian and Byzantine settlement of Son Peretó, one of the most westernly outposts of the Byzantine Empire and dating to the 6th century. Archaeologists have already uncovered a church basilica, a baptistry with two baptismal basins and adjacent rooms. The ongoing investigation of this site is providing answers to how the Balearic Islands developed after the fall of the western Roman empire. |
