Detecting Cultural Landscape in Mediterranean Archaeology (DeCLaMA 2011)

1st Summer School

Detecting Cultural Landscape in Mediterranean Archaeology (DeCLaMA 2011)

26th June - 9th July 2011  Marsiliana d’Albegna, Tuscany, Italy

Historical and archaeological features are recurrent components of the Mediterranean Cultural Landscape, yet are little understood. It may be a monumental centuries-old tree, or antique varieties of fruit trees and vines, or artefacts leading back to ancient uses of the land, such as terraces, charcoal-burning sites, or abandoned vineyards, olive-groves, or chestnut orchards. This course offers theoretic and practical tuition in the rediscovery, evaluation, and management of these parts of the Cultural Landscape, with the aim of enriching the landscape surrounding archaeological sites. A new understanding of the use of  Cultural Landscape will proceed from the innovative multidisciplinary approach of the course, through the perspectives of botanists, archaeologists, geographers, managers and landscape architects.

Course Topics

Theory and methods:

Theory of Cultural Landscape;

Historical biogeography of Mediterranean trees;

Historical documents and archeobotanical materials;

Cartography, historical cartography and GIS.

Field work:

The Cultural Landscape of Marsiliana d'Albegna;

Identification, recording and documentation of ecofacts and artefacts of Marsiliana’s Estate.

Evaluation and Marketing:

Towards a new understanding of landscape resources.

Tutors

G. BARTOLINI                                   Bartolini e Fiamminghi Architetti Associati, Firenze

Ch. BIGGI                                          Centro Herculaneum, Ercolano

S. CAMPANA                                     Università degli Studi di Siena

M. CASSANO                                     Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico

A. DI GENNARO                                Risorsa, Napoli

G. DI PASQUALE                                Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

P. KREBS                                             Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, Bellinzona

D. MORENO                                      Università degli Studi di Genova

A. SCIENZA                                        Università degli Studi di Milano

A. ZIFFERERO                                    Università degli Studi di Siena

Modules will run with a maximum of 30 people.

Certificate on successful completion.

Applications open until 10th June 2011                                                               

Further information and application: http://www.charcoalab.unina.it/doc/education.htm