• ROMARCH: American Academy in Rome, new summer school in architectural documentation

    SUMMER SKILLS COURSES IN ARCHAEOLOGY

    These intensive courses are intended to provide graduate students and other professionals in archaeology, history, classics and historic preservation (plus occasional upper-level undergraduate students) with hands-on training in skillsessential for contemporary practice. With opportunities to put into practice skills learned during the course, these courses are taught by specialists in the field and are offered in rotation in sequential years.

    2014 Program:
    Documentation and Analysis of Ancient Buildings

    2014 Dates:
    June 3-21, 2014

    Application Deadline:
    January 17, 2014

    Lead Instructor:
    Stephan Zink, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
    In collaboration with ETH Zurich (Institut für Denkmalpflege und Bauforschung, Prof. U. Hassler) and the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali.

    Description:
    Architectural remains represent the largest and most conspicuous body of material evidence for the study of Antiquity. At the same time, ancient buildings are fragmented and highly modified artifacts with long life cycles of construction, decay and reconstruction. The analysis and documentation of ancient buildings is thus an opportunity to understand buildings in time, to make sense of them as social and historical artifact and to address the issues of interpretative documentation and recording of the past.

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  • ROMARCH: American Academy in Rome Summer School in Roman Pottery

    AAR Summer Program in Roman Pottery, 2010

    NB: Deadline January 14

    The Howard Comfort, FAAR’29, Summer School in Roman Pottery

    Potsherds constitute the most frequent group of finds on archaeological sites in the Mediterranean. Pottery usually offers the most important evidence for dating sites. Furthermore, ceramological databases provide a good source on issues ranging from trade relations to the consumption patterns of food and questions of identity.

    The Summer School in Roman Pottery Studies is a five-week program designed to present the basics of Roman pottery studies, which can be gained only through direct contact with ceramic assemblages. Since the School’s establishment in 2006 to honor the memory of Howard Comfort (a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and an eminent scholar of Roman pottery), it has gained a reputation as the premier venue for introducing aspiring scholars to the field, and its alumni are increasingly in demand on projects in Italy and elsewhere.

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