Field Study in Mediterranean Archaeology

Catalog description

This course is designed to give students firsthand experience in an active archaeological excavation of an ancient Mediterranean site. Students learn field techniques and methodologies, including survey, excavation, recording and measurement, plan drawing, onsite ceramic analysis, stratigraphic analysis, among others. Students are required also to connect the excavation activities to the broader context of the site and region through directed readings, onsite lectures by specialists (e.g., zooarchaeologists, paleobotanists, geologists), and to draw this knowledge and experience together in a final paper.