Project RESEARCH intermediate Conference is organized by UNITUS and will be held in Viterbo on the 3rd of November 2022. The program includes presentations about the vulnerability of archaeological heritage, hazard and risk assessment, the GIS platform built by the Project and the related archaeological database. Preliminary Project results will be illustrated by Project participants. The conference will be also an opportunity to discuss further Project developments.
If you are interested in online participation, please contact one of the organizers via e-mail (Stefano De Angeli: deangeli@unitus.it; Fabiana Battistin: fabiana.battistin@hotmail.it).
The Third Summer School of RESEARCH project will be held in Viterbo (Italy) from the 31st of October to the 2nd of November 2022.
The Summer School is organized by UNITUS, and it is designed to train young scholars and researchers, promote collaboration, bring closely the various techniques of RS for archaeological site mapping, exchange knowledge between the different fields of remote sensing and cultivate a dynamic dialogue between academia and the private sector.
Please register by contacting one of the organizers (e-mail address on the program sheet). Please, also state your preference for physical or online participation.
The Intermediate Conference of Project RESEARCH will be held in Viterbo (Italy) on the 3rd of November 2022. The program will be published in the next few days on this website.
AMU team members (Lidia on the left and Sonia on the right) measuring the artefacts in winter conditions (Photography by W. Rączkowski).
Surveying in the snow?! Yes, it is possible. From Wednesday to Saturday (11-13.03.2021), despite weather conditions, we decided it was high time for surveying areas mentioned in our project. Three sites were marked out, one in Dzierżęcin and two in Cisowo. The goal of our prospection was to find and mark artefacts visible on the ground while walking through the area. In a team of four people (Włodzimierz Rączkowski, Lidia Żuk, Filip Wałdoch and Sonia Tomczak), equipped in a GPS, each of us, we walked in the distance of stretched arms between each other to cover the area as detailed as possible. All the fragments of pottery and two pieces of glass, that we found, were marked with red dots. First, when a piece of human activity in the past, like a piece pottery, was spotted, we marked it with a flag. And then we measured their location by the use of RTK to achieve high accuracy in positioning.
Fortunately, we have marked all the pieces with flags before it started to snow. So there was no problem with finding the right spots for measurements. Snow and wind were too intense to continue surveying later this day. We went back to our base to check the results of our research.
The field in Dzierżęcin has not been cultivated for a few months and we could witness a strong animal activity there, especially traces of roe deers and boars. We have even discovered a den. Fortunately, nothing came out of it.
The next two days the weather was better and despite the strong wind, we have managed to cover the whole area between the falls of rain. The rain even helped to improve the visibility of pottery fragments on the ground. We got also a few moments of sunny weather, which didn’t really help to trace the pottery. An additional attraction was a wind farm located next to the surveyed area.
Our plan is to go back after a few months to cover the area again using the same prospection method and check if we could locate the same fragments of pottery (that is the reason behind marking them) and how they change location because of cultivation and erosion. Results might shed light on the influence of alluviation on archaeological heritage.
A den field in Dzierżęcin in winter conditions (Photograph by W. Rączkowski).
A piece of pottery marked by a flag and a red dot on the surface before measurements in Dzierżęcin (Photograph by W. Rączkowski).
AMU team members surveying a den field in Dzierżęcin (Photograph by W. Rączkowski).
Prospection on the field in Cisowo with a view on a medieval church. From the left Lidia Żuk, Sonia Tomczak, Filip Wałdoch (Photograph by W. Rączkowski).
Field in Cisowo with a view on one of the wind farms (Photograph by W. Rączkowski).
Field in Cisowo with a view on one of the wind farms (Photograph by W. Rączkowski).
On the 31st of March, RESEARCH Partners will meet for the 2nd Progress Meeting. Considering travel limitations and other issues related to Covid-19 pandemic, the Meeting will be hold on-line. The event is reserved to the Consortium.
Beside managerial and scientific issues, Partners will discuss secondment implementation issues related to the Pandemic situation, and recovery plans.
We are very proud to announce that the paper “The RESEARCH project. Soil-related hazards and archaeological heritage in the challenge of climate change”, presented at the online conference Florence HERI-TECH, The Future of Heritage Science and Technologies Conference (14-16 October 2020) has been published as part of the open-access IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering outgoing. To download the paper, please visit https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1757-899X/949/1.
On the 16th of October RESEARCH participated in the conference ArcheoFOSS 2020 (2020.archeofoss.org), presenting the paper “Valutazione integrata delle dinamiche di rischio di erosione del suolo in presenza di depositi archeologici. Il metodo proposto dal Progetto RESEARCH (REmote SEnsing techniques for ARCHaeology)”, which will be published as part of the conference proceedings.
RESEARCH thanks ArcheoFOSS 2020 for great organization of the event and the opportunity.
To check the program, download the book of abstracts and watch the conference, visit the official website at https://2020.archeofoss.org.
RESEARCH will participate in the XIV edition of the conference ArcheoFOSS 2020, Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research. The conference will be held online from the 15th to the 17th of October 2020. To check the program, download the book of abstracts and watch the conference, visit the official website at 2020.archeofoss.org.
RESEARCH will participate to the online conference Florence HERI-TECH, The Future of Heritage Science And Technologies Conference (14-16 October 2020), presenting the paper “The RESEARCH project. Soil-related hazards and archaeological heritage in the challenge of climate change”. The contribution will be published as part of the open-access IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering outgoing within the month of November 2020. To check the program and follow the online events, visit https://www.florenceheritech.com.
On the 27th of September 2020, UNITUS and ALMA conducted a site inspection in Itanos, one of Project case studies. Archaeologists from Università della Tuscia and staff from Alma paid particular attention to archaeological structures and features, from the perspective of the major issues related to the risk assessment of land movement to the site.
