Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - COURSE INFORMATION & COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES
    The inter-disciplinary perspective of Archaeology, the Ebla discovery, the use of ICT technologies and the introduction of the Europeana Data Model as a framework for collecting, connecting and enriching data will be the focus of the course.
  • Week 1 - Week 1 - The recovery of the human past and the protection of the universal heritage.
    We will start our enquiry by discussing how ancient societies kept memory of their own past, an aspect which, in fact, was fundamental to their identity. Shifting towards modern times, we will then reflect how the material past is preserved and how we refer to...
  • Week 2 - Week 2 - The birth of archaeology and its role in the contemporary world.
    The study of the past of the planet marked the first serious reflections on humankind’s past, although archaeology was in fact considered the practice to collect objects. “New Archaeology” represents the first major revolution, promptly followed by the more st...
  • Week 3 - Week 3 - The birth of archaeology and its role in the contemporary world.
    Field archaeology entails discovery, but is a matter of fact that discovering brings a great responsibility because it is a process of destruction. Digging means observing, recording, interpreting. Archaeological excavation is an harmonious trade-off between a...
  • Week 4 - Week 4 - The birth of archaeology and its role in the contemporary world.
    Material remains of the past and their state of recovery vary according also to environments. Surface surveys lead to a more intense knowledge of territories, visualizing archaeologicallandscapes in a variety of ecological situations. The objectives of archae...
  • Week 5 - Week 5 - The birth of archaeology and its role in the contemporary world.
    This module focuses on scientific research and knowledge dissemination.The specificities of the past pose a problem in respect of popularization and simplification. The operational chain is made of exploration, dig, publication, conservation, dissemination, pr...
  • Week 6 - Week 6 - Digitizing Cultural Objects and 3D virtual reconstruction
    In this module, Emanuel Demetrescu will explain us the last methodologies and techniques in the field of 3D acquisition and reconstruction of cultural heriatage. These applications improve the knowledge and preservation and have a central role in the way we ca...
  • Week 7 - Week 7 - Digitizing Cultural Objects and 3D virtual reconstruction
    In this module, Andrea Vitaletti will show us the basic techniques to effectively manage the unprecedented amount of digital contents on cultural objects nowadays offered by cultural heritage providers. Raw data, need to be organized in structured informatio...
  • Week 8 - Week 8 - Digitizing Cultural Objects and 3D virtual reconstruction
    This module deals with some basic issues and principles. All heritages are “equal among them”. Heritages are a property of humankind and not of the single countries. Heritages need to be protected and preserved in their context. But many threats are posed to h...

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Paolo Matthiae
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology
Dipartimento delle Scienze dell'Antichità

Davide Nadali
PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology

Andrea Vitaletti
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Computer Science

Emanuel Demetrescu
PhD candidate

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