"Designing the Future"
October 25th at 9.30AM, Aula Ex Cisadu
On Friday 25th the Department of Sciences of Antiquity will hold a day of teaching specifically addressed to students of the Doctoral School in Archaeology of the third year entitled 'Designing the Future'.
The seminar aims to offer tools for knowledge of prospects and methods of access to the postdoc, both in terms of personal preparation and institutional organization. Precisely for this reason the course is particularly aimed at third year students who are about to complete their final level of training at Sapienza, but it is open to all those interested.
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Prehistoric Archeology Curriculum: Presentazione del volume "Studi di Protostoria in memoria di Renato Peroni"
June 14 2024
On 14 June at 11 a.m., the volume Studi di Protostoria in memoria di Renato Peroni will be presented by
Francesco Quondam (Department of Classical Archaeology – Univerity of Wien). This will be followed by
comments and interventions and the reading of an unpublished document by Renato Peroni.
The volume presents various articles dedicated to Italian and European protohistory with the participation
of many authors.
The presentation will be held in Lecture Hall XXII, 2nd floor of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy.
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Progetto Prima Europa - La Protostoria del Polesine
June 14 2024
Starting at 3.30 p.m., will be presented the results and prospects of the ongoing research in the important
Final Bronze Age sites of Frattesina and Villamarzana, near Rovigo, which are part of the Project: Prima
Europa.La Protostoria del Polesine..
Polesine region represents a particularly important area in the last centuries of the 2nd millennium B.C., in
which the international production and exchange centre of Frattesina and the nearby large settlement of
Villamarzana developed. Recent excavations conducted by Sapienza - University of Rome - Department of
Antiquity Sciences in collaboration with the CPASSAE of Rovigo (Frattesina) and the University of Padua,
Department of Cultural Heritage (Villamarzana), along geophysical research conducted by Wieke de Neef
of the University of Bamberg have revealed new relevant aspects of these extraordinary archaeological
contexts.
The project: Prima Europa. La Protostoria del Polesine is coordinated by the Soprintendenza ABAP of
Verona, Rovigo and Vicenza and financed by the Fondazione Cariparo.
The presentation will be held in Lecture Hall XXII, 2nd floor of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy.
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Post-Classical archaeology: Study seminar - The two faces of Mithraism
June 11 2024 July 11 2024
Seminar organized by the Doctoral School in Archeology (Prof. M.T. D'Alessio) and by the Doctoral Student in Philology and History of the Ancient World (Prof. P.Vannicelli)
Aula XXII, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
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Classical Archaeology: Living in the Town, Living in the Countryside. Typologies, Models and Transformations of Residential Architecture in Hellenistic and Roman Epirus
15 January 2024 Aula Manlio Simonetti Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, (CU003, 3rd floor) Sapienza University of Roma
The seminar is aimed at PhD students in the Classical Archaeology curriculum of the 37th, 38th and 39th cycles and all interested students.
https://phd.uniroma1.it/dottorati/cartellaDocumentiWeb/e8e60364-e193-4c3c-95c9-f5ba972322cf.pdf
Presentation
The on-field archaeological activities have much accelerated in various areas of Epirus in the last decades, and are producing an important progress of our knowledge of many aspects of the region, such as settlement distribution and land occupation, the definition of the urban landscapes, the organisation of defensive strategies, territory control and fortification, the funerary and religious spheres, etc. Lesser attention, considering the available publications, has been put on the analysis of the residential complexes, and this is not due to the lack of archaeological evidence, which is sometimes quite exceptional. Houses of different typologies, scale and prestige have been excavated and documented in recent years in large, fully urban centres such as Phoinike and Antigonea, and in minor sites such as Çuka e Ajtoit (Cestria). The rural landscape, as well, preserves evidences of small settlements equipped with monumental towers and other fortification elements. These have traditionally been interpreted as fortified farmhouses, underlining their economical function connected to agricultural and pastoral intensive exploitation of the chora. Among these stand out the structures preserved at Malathrea, a Hellenistic tetrapyrgos enlarged in Roman times and those of Mesopotamos near Ephyra in Thesprotia, erroneously interpreted for many years as the famous sanctuary of the Nekyomanteion. Exceptional architectural models, forged and diffused by the Macedonian dynasty are at the base of many of these residences that seem to integrate ‘palatial’ shapes and functions.
The workshop aims at offering a discussion table to share new excavation and research results and fostering a fruitful dialog on models, functions, chronologies, transformations and interpretation. It aims at setting the ground for an integrated understanding of the phenomenon of residential architecture in Hellenistic and Roman Epirus.
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Ethics and Cultural Heritage
May 20-21, 27-28 2024
Within the education offered to PhD students of the Doctoral School in Archaeology, four meetings with Dr. Marco Arizza (National Research Council - ISPC and CID Ethics) are scheduled
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Oriental Archaeology: The Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of Tyre: Research, Management, and Preservation
May 6 2024
Lecture of Dott. Ali Badawi - Directorate, Lebanon General of Antiquities
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Introduction to Geoarchaeology, methods and application in Archaeology
April 18-19, 2024
The course aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the research methodologies used in geoarchaeology, to introduce students to the various tools of the Earth Sciences (rocks and minerals, sedimentology, geomorphology, pedology, absolute dating techniques, micromorphology, and laboratory analysis) and their application in the context of archaeological research.
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AIAC Meetings | April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024
The AIAC Meetings (IncontriAIAC) are an initiative close to AIAC’s heart: during the last twenty years they have become an important proving ground for young scholars, generally pre-doctoral, doing research in Rome. Since 2000 we have held a monthly seminar on a specific archaeological theme, at which two to four archaeologists from Italian Universities and the Foreign Academies present their work. This gives them the opportunity to meet each other, and to try out their ideas, thus creating a network of young archaeologists. The seminars are generally conducted in Italian, but other languages are welcome.
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AIAC Meetings | March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024
The AIAC Meetings (IncontriAIAC) are an initiative close to AIAC’s heart: during the last twenty years they have become an important proving ground for young scholars, generally pre-doctoral, doing research in Rome. Since 2000 we have held a monthly seminar on a specific archaeological theme, at which two to four archaeologists from Italian Universities and the Foreign Academies present their work. This gives them the opportunity to meet each other, and to try out their ideas, thus creating a network of young archaeologists. The seminars are generally conducted in Italian, but other languages are welcome.
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Prehistoric Archaeology: Machine Learning and Computer Science in Archaeology: issues, applications and perspectives
March 14, 2024
The increasingly widespread application of artificial intelligence is transforming many areas, including work, communication, business, and research. Words and concepts such as neural networks, generative models and Large Language Models have become part of our everyday vocabulary. But what exactly can artificial intelligence techniques offer in the context of archaeological research? This lecture aims to explore and analyse the relationship between archaeology and artificial intelligence, focusing on key concepts such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Computer Science. These tools can help archaeologists analyse large amounts of data, identify patterns and relationships, develop new research methods, and communicate results more effectively. The main aim is to provide an introductory framework to the topic, providing the necessary information to contextualise the topic within the framework of archaeological research. During the seminar, the main themes, case studies and theoretical underpinnings will be presented, providing the PhD students with the necessary tools to understand, exploit and potentially apply the potential of these techniques in the field of archaeological and humanistic disciplines.
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Etruscology: 'Clay, Sand, Water, Hands. Research Approaches to Architectural Terracotta in Central Italy'.
February 14, 2024
Life in Ancient Italy was steeped in rich and varied religious practices. Temples and precincts were covered in images of gods and demigods, and votives and cult statues filled spaces of belief. But who was responsible for these sacred images, and how did they carry—and create—meaning? This lecture will explain some of the functions of architectural sculpture and some of the important debates in their study. It will explain how the images of gods and other sacred figures have been understood, with respect to religious and political institutions, and how some traditions in the field might be getting in the way of a deeper sense of the artisans responsible for crafting these works. Finally, the Antefixa Project will be presented.
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AIAC Meetings | February 12, 2024
February 12, 2024
The AIAC Meetings (IncontriAIAC) are an initiative close to AIAC’s heart: during the last twenty years they have become an important proving ground for young scholars, generally pre-doctoral, doing research in Rome.
Since 2000 we have held a monthly seminar on a specific archaeological theme, at which two to four archaeologists from Italian Universities and the Foreign Academies present their work. This gives them the opportunity to meet each other, and to try out their ideas, thus creating a network of young archaeologists. The seminars are generally conducted in Italian, but other languages are welcome.
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Oriental Archaeology
From February 1st to April 11
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Extended Matrix: The Transformation of the Archaeological Record into Reconstructive Hypothesis
January, Monday 22 2024
Emanuel Demetrescu, Researcher at the Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale - CNR, will give a lecture entitled "Extended Matrix: The Transformation of the Archaeological Record in Reconstructive Hypothesis", open to all PhD students of the Doctorate School in Archaeology and students of the School of Specialisation in Archaeological Heritage.
The appointment is Monday 22 January 2024, 2-4pm, Aula di Archeologia (Museo dell'Arte Classica).
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