EXCAVATIONS 2012
Dates: July Duration: 1 month Period: Roman One of Spain's most fascinating Roman cities, Clunia was an administrative and religious capital in northern Hispania during the 1st and 2nd centuries. So far archaeologists have uncovered the Forum, several large houses with mosaics, the basilica and two bath complexes. We will be excavating the city's 9,000-seat theater, the largest in the Iberian Peninsula. Over the past decade our crews have shed new light on the construction and usage of the theater, which was later converted into an arena for bloodsport. |
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Dates: June, July and August Duration: 3-4 weeks per session Periods: Iron Age, Roman The Vaccean (Celtic-Iron Age) culture settled in Pintia in 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 more than 200 cremation burials. The burials have provided information and artifacts relating to the settlement's social structure and the culture's warrior class. This summer we will continue excavating the necropolis, as well as the newly opened area around the massive defensive walls.
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Season: September Duration: 2 weeks 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. We will be cleaning, processing and restoring the shards as they join our database that tracks the goods that entered Roman ports. Just south of the city center on the far side of the Aventine Hill, Testaccio is walking distance from some of Rome's most famous monuments.
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HIGH
SCHOOL PROGRAM
Season: July Duration: 1 month 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 to students ages 16 and 17 (grades 11 and 12). |
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Duration: 1 month 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, especially concerning early Christianity, after the fall of the western Roman empire. |
