Geoarchaeology

The course aims to train students in the field of Geoarchaeology, providing them with the cultural and technical basis for carrying out research and professional activities in projects of archaeological excavations, surveys, reconstruction of the formation processes of the archaeological record, rescue archeology, and diagnostic and conservation for archaeological heritage.

Students are expected to learn to select the relevant methods to carry out archaeological excavation and survey; students will be also able to describe a stratigraphic sequence and to properly collect samples for laboratory analyses and dating. In details, students will be able to :
- describe and understand soil and sediments in archaeological context, observed in archaeological excavation, test trenches and drilling cores;
- describe and understand archaeological landscape on the base of mapping and remote sensing;
- perform in laboratory basic sedimentological and pedological analyses applied to archaeological context;
- set up and produce reports on the formation processes of archaeological sites and landscapes.