Scientific Coordinator: Francesco Iacono, with the collaboration of dr. Francesca Porta
Period: January-June 2026 (lesson times to be defined)
Attendance: Both remote and in presence
Place: Department of History and cultures, Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna
Admitted students: 8
Email: francesco.iacono5@unibo.it
Aims
Over the last few decades quantitative literacy has emerged as a key skill to be mastered for archaeology students. Aimed both at the study of survey and excavation record this laboratory will help you through the analysis of the material from the Roca Archaeological Survey project (any period from prehistory to today, https://site.unibo.it/paesaggi-mob-mem/it), and the Torre dell’Alto Project excavation (Bronze Age, https://site.unibo.it/medcoastlife/en) this laboratory, is aimed at teaching how to identify, quantify and interpret material data.
Program
The laboratory will be organized in a number of introductory theoretical lessons, some of which delivered remotely, which will precede an activity of primary material processing, to be carried out in person at the headquarters of S. Giovanni in Monte.
Suggested readings
Banning, E.B., 2002., Archaeological Survey (Manuals in archaeological method, theory, and technique). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. (Chapter IX)
Iacono, F., V. Spagnolo, W. De Neef& L. Coluccia, 2020, Roca ArchaeologicalSurvey: Inquadramento e primissimi risultati, FOLD&R ArchaeologicalSurvey Series 2020(13), 1–14. (www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-sur-2020-13.pdf)
Iacono, F., Fiorini, A., Agostini, G., Ceccato, Z., Favaron, S., 2023. Torre dell’Alto (Nardò, Lecce): un primo inquadramento, FOLD&R 1–17. (https://cris.unibo.it/retrieve/handle/11585/935936/da439107-ad77-4f3b-8c15-820303517212/FOLDER-it-2023-562.pdf )
Shennan, S., 1997. Quantifying Archaeology, 2nd edition. ed. Edinburgh University Press.
