Whoever thinks that archeology has nothing in common with chemistry, physics and engineering will get the opportunity to think again in the next few days.
In fact, at Trento University, two ventures have been scheduled, both dealing with the cutting edge of the outer reaches of archeology for the new Indiana Jones and Lara Croft generation.
A foretaste of things to come will be given during ArcheoDays, an annual meet-up of students, scholars, and workers who are involved with archeological issues locally.
There will be a presentation of research projects carried out by Trento University PhD students as a backdrop to an assessment of recent progress in this sector. These reports will show to what extent archeology can be seen as including a whole series of themes, from the chronological and geographical, to the range and diversity of the approaches and techniques used.
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ArcheoDays will take place on Thursday 31st January (from 10a.m. to 6p.m.) and on Friday 1st February (from 9 a.m. to 12.30) at Palazzo Paolo Prodi (Trento – Via Tommaso Gar, 14).
There will be a seminar focusing on Methodology for archeological research, coordinated within the sphere of the PhD course: “Cultures of Europe. Environment, time-spans, past events, arts, ideas” with the participation of Masters students on the “Quaternary, Pre-history and Archeology” post-graduate degree course (Dept. of Humanities), an inter-university course set up by Trento University with the Universities of Ferrara, Verona and Modena and Reggio Emilia.
ArcheoDays is open to anyone who is interested in archeology or who is interested in a general understanding of the past history of the human race. The coordinator and advisor for this venture is Diego E. Angelucci, Professor of Methodologies of archeological research, who oversees the PhD course.
The following week, there be another chance to understand that archeology is fast becoming a humanist and a scientific discipline at the same time, with a doctorate-level training initiative: “Analysis of materials used in archeology and cultural assets”. This will take place on Monday 4th (from 9a.m. to 5.30 p.m.) and Tuesday 5th February (from 9.00 to 12.45 a.m.) at Palazzo Paolo Prodi.
There will be a demonstration of the wide-ranging facilities and technologies available at the international synchroton research Centre ELETTRA, based in Trieste. The innovative solutions shown, ranging from vibrational spectroscopies, imaging and tomography for cultural heritage, virtual paleontology and chemical microscopy of artefacts, will facilitate research in the area of archeology and cultural heritage. This initiative will be of interest to young researchers who operate in the field of archeological and cultural heritage, at universities, museums and local government offices.
This initiative has been organized by the Laboratorio Bagolini di archeologia, archeometria e fotografia and by the Centro alti studi umanistici (CeASUM), as part of the “Dipartimento di eccellenza” project and is included in the PhD course “Cultures of Europe. Environment, time-spans, past events, arts, ideas”, in addition to the Cultural heritage laboratory of the Department of Industrial engineering. The scientific committee is made up by: Diego E. Angelucci, Stefano Grimaldi and Annaluisa Pedrotti (Humanities Dept., Trento University) and by Stefano Gialanella (Industrial Engineering Department, Trento University).