Sanisera Archaeology Institute

The research is focused on the archaeological excavation of Sanisera and it studies what happened in this Roman port connected to the maritime traffic that sailed the Mediterranean during those times. As a result, we know that this is a very interesting archaeological site, with abundant findings of multiple artifacts that will help us to reconstruct its past.
The excavation at the Roman city of Sanisera provides all the archaeological documentation necessary for the student to acquire enough training and experience in all aspects involving an excavation of the Roman civilization from the II century B.C. to the VI A.D.

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Fieldwork focuses on the excavation of funerary structures, specifically inhumation graves. In the laboratory students will learn to classify artifacts found, mainly human skeletal remains.

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This course focuses on the excavation and study of both the urban structures of the Roman city of Sanisera, where a monastery has been found and the excavation of inhumation tombs from the classical period. In the laboratory students will learn to classify artifacts found, including Roman pottery, numismatics and faunal remains.

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This course focuses on the in-depth analysis of human skeletal remains excavated from the Roman necropolis of Sanisera. In this course we will use advanced osteological techniques to gain a better understanding of the lifestyle of population of Sanisera.

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This course is designed for students that have participated in an archaeological excavation and would like to learn about archaeological tools used to document research information collected with rigor and quality, thanks to the handling of the field data processing translated to AutoCAD or/and ArcGIS software to create stratigraphic maps of the excavation.

If you are interested in archaeology as well as how to process this information using technical drawing, and digital illustration then this is the course you are looking for. This course accommodates participants with or without previous experience.

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The San Mateo Church is one of the churches with the greatest architectural and artistic interest in the city of Jerez (Cádiz, Spain), founded during the medieval period, most of its building presents the typical Gothic architecture of the 14th - 15th centuries, with additions from the Renaissance and Baroque art.

The objective in this course of bioarcheological fieldwork will be to excavate the burial niches dating from the seventeenth century of the underground funerary crypt that belongs to the San Mateo Church. An old plan of the church basement confirms that the church basement houses a large number of burial tombs. This will be the first time this funerary crypt has been excavated.

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Students learn the most current techniques (GIS, Lidar, photogrammetry and Claude AI) applied to the medieval landscape of the Pyrenees, the area with the highest density of Romanesque sites of the 10th to 14th centuries in Spain. The aim is to explore, discover and document archaeological sites, whether unpublished or already known: churches, monasteries, castles, abandoned villages and necropolises of rock-cut tombs.

Based in Malpàs (El Pont de Suert, Lleida), the course combines daily fieldwork with drone and GNSS and laboratory sessions with QGIS or ArcGIS, Lidar data, photogrammetry and Claude AI. No previous experience in archaeology or software is required.

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A ten-day archaeological tour of Egypt led by an expert in Egyptian archaeology. From Cairo, students visit Giza, the Grand Egyptian Museum, Saqqara and Dahshur; a flight takes the group to Luxor to see Dendera and Abydos, followed by a Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan with stops at Edfu, Kom Ombo and Philae, and the return to Cairo.

The course is closed, with no optional visits, and includes 4 and 5-star hotels, meals and all internal transport. The international flight to Cairo and the visa are not included. Maximum of 15 participants per session, minimum group of 10.

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A laboratory course in which students learn to identify and classify the animal bones recovered at the Roman port of Sanisera (1st to 7th centuries AD): sheep, goat, pig and cattle, together with the horses, dogs, chickens and pigeons that appear in smaller numbers. Working with real material from the latest excavation seasons and the reference atlases and manuals, students learn anatomical identification, age and butchery analysis and the recording of zooarchaeological data.

The course does not include excavation and is limited to six participants per session. No prior knowledge of zooarchaeology is required.

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Students reconstruct the ancient shape of four harbours and anchorages of Menorca (Sanitja, Cala Pregonda, Cala Tamarells and Ses Fontanelles) by combining GIS, LiDAR, bathymetry, aerial and satellite imagery, Claude AI and the data of the underwater Archaeological Chart of the island, and then check the results on the ground, on foot and along the shore.
The course is run from the headquarters of the institute in Ciutadella de Menorca. It is focused above all on laboratory work, with short early-morning field trips, and no diving skills are required. No previous experience in archaeology or software is needed.

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Belchite (Zaragoza) is one of the best-known scenes of the Spanish Civil War: destroyed in the battle of 1937 and never rebuilt, its ruins preserve the layout of the medieval town, with its Jewish quarter and the synagogue discovered in 2024, one of the best-preserved in Spain. Sanisera students join the excavation project directed by Dr. Alfonso Fanjul and the Spanish Association of Military Archaeology.
The course combines the archaeology of a modern conflict and the archaeology of a medieval town at the same site: excavation of the synagogue and the Jewish quarter, mapping of the materials of the 1937 battle, laboratory work and seminars. No previous experience is required.

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