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Teacher
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MEDAGLIA SALVATORE
(syllabus)
The module is divided into two parts. The first will deal with general topics aimed at offering an overview of the history of the discipline, the main fields of application and the peculiar characteristics of submerged sites. Ports, landings, fish ponds and, in general, the main coastal infrastructures will be illustrated. The study of wrecks and their formation processes will be tackled and current developments and methodological orientations of naval archeology will be examined. Ample space will be devoted to the methods and techniques of underwater archaeological intervention: the construction site, instrumentation, stratigraphic excavation, prospecting, positioning, documentation and new instrumental survey systems. We will offer a theoretical framework of the main recovery procedures and first conservative treatment of underwater archaeological artefacts and we will examine the regulations related to the UNESCO Convention on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage adopted in Paris in 2001 and ratified in Italy with Law 157 / 2009. At the end of this first part of the course, a review of the current guidelines of investigation and documentation of sites in deep waters will be sketched and the new frontiers of in situ enhancement of the underwater archaeological heritage will be discussed in the light of the most recent experiences gained in Europe and in the rest of the world.
The second part of the course will be reserved for the archeology of navigation and commerce of the Greek and Roman age. After an introduction on the techniques of ancient navigation in which the peculiar aspects of life on board and the beliefs of sailors will also be analyzed, the main sources of information that underwater archeology will be examined, through the examination of naval loads and contexts submerged, offers the reconstruction of trans-Mediterranean routes and, in general, the study of long-range trade.
Without prejudice to the anti-Covid rules, during the lessons an in-depth seminar is planned with the involvement of a specialist in the discipline and a visit to a naval archeology museum will be scheduled.
(reference books)
A) Required texts:
- R. Petriaggi, B. Davidde Petriaggi, Archeologia sott’acqua. Teoria e pratica, Pisa-Roma 2014 (II ed.), pp. 19-138, 187-265.
- C. Beltrame, Archeologia marittima del Mediterraneo. Navi, merci e porti dall'antichità all'età moderna, Roma 2012, pp. 61-204.
In-depth topic: "Rome and the great maritime trade".
- M. Reddé - J.-C. Golvin, I Romani e il Mediterraneo, Roma 2008, pp. 11-105 (orig.title Voyages sur la Méditerranée romaine, Arles-Paris 2005).
B) Non-attending students:
Non-attending students are required to study the compulsory texts referred to in point A) and one of the following volumes of their choice:
- S. Medas, De rebus nauticis: l'arte della navigazione nel mondo antico, Roma 2001.
- P. Pomey, E. Rieth, L'archeologie navale, Paris 2005.
- G. Volpe (ed.), Archeologia subacquea. Come opera l’archeologo sott’acqua. Storie dalle acque, Atti dell’VIII Ciclo di lezioni sulla ricerca applicata in archeologia, (Certosa di Pontignano - Siena 1996) Firenze 1998.
- P. A. Gianfrotta, X Nieto, P. Pomey, A. Tchernia, La Navigation dans l'Antiquité, sous la direction de Patrice Pomey, Aix-en Provence 1997.
- C. Beltrame, Vita di bordo in età romana, Roma 2002.
- L. Fozzati (ed.), Thalassa. Meraviglie sommerse dal Mediterraneo, Milano 2020.
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