014: Explore Underwater Pompeii (Baia Underwater Park, Naples Bay – Italy) & Discover Amphora & Shipwrecks in the Underwater Port of Sanitja. (Menorca – Spain)

What you will learn ?

In the Fieldwork

• How to survey and which archaeological techniques are used.
  
  
• Use and handling of the tools that are used during the survey process.
  
  
• Recording data obtained during the survey.
  
  
• Study submerged archaeological remains in Baia Underwater Park
  
  
• Practice in the recognition of archaeological materials and Roman finds from the II century B. C. to VI A. D. in the Underwater Port of Sanitja.
  
  
• Practice in the recognition of structures and archaeological remains in Portus Iulius to make a detailed map of the Roman port infrastructure and analyze the spatial distribution of all objects we will find underwater.
  
  

In the Laboratory

• Recording data obtained during the survey -diary and systematic methodology sheets-.
  
  
• Study and typological classification of archaeological Roman objects discovered during the underwater survey.
  
  
• Relative dating based on the classification of the archaeological objects discovered during the survey.
  

Theory

• Underwater Archaeological background of Sanisera.
  
  
• Ancient trade in Sanisera and the Western Mediterranean Sea.
  
  
• Ancient navigation.
  
  
• Modern sail merchant ships (centuries 16th - 20th).
  
  
• History, archaeology, economy and culture of the Roman civilization.
  
  
• Introduction to the History of the Sanisera Site.
  
  
• Minorcan archaeology before the Roman conquest of the Balearic Islands.