2005 LECTURE / PRESENTATION / WORKSHOP SERIES

 

Things always change at the last minute, but here at least is a tentative list of lecture and presentation topics.

Sunday, June 19: The Mugello Valley Archaeological Project
Introduction to the Project (Thomas & Warden)
Walking tour of the site

Monday, June 20: Excavations at Poggio Colla 1995-2004 (Warden)

Tuesday, June 21: Introduction to stratigraphy (Vander Poppen)

Thursday, June 23: The trench notebook and student journals (Thomas)

Monday, June 27: Settlement archaeology: southern Etruria (Warden)

Weds., June 29: Settlement archaeology: northern Etruria (Warden)

Thursday, June 30: Material Culture (Warden & Thomas)

Monday, July 4 Archaeological survey methodologies (Vander Poppen)

Tuesday, July 5: Archaeological illustration (Hooton)

Wednesday, July 6: Kilns, geophysics, etc. (Sternberg)

Tuesday, July 12: Archaeological Ceramics (Steiner)

Wednesday, July 13: Project assignments discussed (STAFF)

Thursday, July 14: Settlement archaeology: Murlo & Acquarossa (Meyers)

Monday, July 18: Jewelry (Castor)

Tuesday, July 19: The Agro Fiorentino, Bologna, and the north (Warden)

Wednesday, July 20: Soils and Archaeology (Tabor), possibly on site

Thursday, July 21: Archaeological Conservation (White)

Monday, July 25: Etruscan religion and ritual space (Thomas)

Tuesday, July 26: Archaeological Mapping (Galloway)

Thursday, July 28: Public lecture in Vicchio on 2005 Season, in Italian (Warden)

Tuesday, August 2: The 2005 Season, in retrospect (Staff)

 


Gretchen Meyers, Jess Galloway, and Rollins College students in roof tile workshop.

 


SMU students working on their bucchero research project under
Greg Warden's direction in the study room.

 


Students gather around Greg Warden and Michael Thomas for a
lecture on the material culture of Poggio Colla and the Podere Funghi.

 

 

Co-Directors: Gregory Warden gwarden@mail.smu.edu and Michael Thomas mlthomas@mail.utexas.edu
Excavation house phone during the field season: (011-39) 055-844-9834