043: Digging roman graves in the Necropolis of Sanisera & Archaeological Techniques of drawing, photography and digital illustration

What you will learn ?

In the Fieldwork

• How to dig and which archaeological techniques are used.
  
  
• Use and handling of the tools that are used during the excavation process.
  
  
• Basic principles of stratigraphy.
  
  
• Recording the data obtained during the excavation using the Harris Method.
  
  
• Practice on the recognition of archaeological materials and Roman finds from the II century B.C. - VI A.D.
  
  
• Basic procedures for sample collection.
  
  

In the laboratory

• Cleaning, inventory and cataloging of recovered human bones during the excavation process.
  
  
• Basics of the methods used in human osteological analysis, including skeletal anatomy, palaeodemography and palaeopathology.
  
  
• Learning how to identify age, sex and height of buried individuals.
  
  
• Relative dating based on the classification of archaeological objects discovered in stratigraphic sequence.
  
  
• Learn how to draw ceramic according with the standards (piece orientation, diameter edge estimation, representation of the decoration and several views generation).
  
  
• Objects drawing exercises (glass, lithics, coins, bone needles).
  
  
• Correct handle of the graphic representation and learning of different scales 1:1, 2:1…
  
  
• Photography techniques used on little objects like coins, jewels and ceramics with decoration and epigraphy.
  
  
• Drawing and photographing with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
  
  
• Drawing and vector handling of the archaeological material with Adobe Illustrator.
  
  

Theory

• History, archaeology, economy and culture of the Roman civilization.
  
  
• Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Bioarchaeology.
  
  
• Skeletal Anatomy –Terminology-: generalities, dental structure, skull and other bones.
  
  
• Introduction to the History of the Sanisera Site.
  
  
• Minorcan archaeology before the Roman conquest of the Balearic Islands.