THE FINAL CONFERENCE OF RESEARCH SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED!

Project RESEARCH Final Conference, organized by UNITUS and held in Rome on the 17th of October 2023, is concluded. The Conference was hosted by the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria Meridionale, in the beautiful venue of Sala delle Colonne at Palazzo Patrizi-Clementi. The Conference aimed at bringing together the Consortium to illustrate the several activities carried out during this five-year project and the results achieved. The presentations illustrated the risk assessment methodology, the environmental and archaeological data processing chains and related results, and the GIS and WebGIS Platforms developed. The conference ended with a Panel session dedicated to the application of remote sensing technologies to protect material cultural heritage. The invited panelists have been Dott. Daniele Federico Maras (SABAP-VT-EM), Prof. Giovanni Ettore Gigante (Sapienza), and Dott. Ing. Renzo Carlucci (Archeomatica).

Several members of the Soprintendenza participated in the conference, together with external researchers and experts in the field stimulating a dialogue between speakers and public, and possible stakeholders.

The organizers and Project coordinator thank the Soprintendenza for hosting the conference, the panellists, and all the speakers and participants for the interesting presentations and active participation in the discussion of results.

For more details please visit the dedicated page.

THE PROGRAM OF THE FINAL CONFERENCE OF RESEARCH IS NOW ONLINE!

Project RESEARCH Final Conference is organized by UNITUS and will be held in Rome on the 17th of October 2023. The program includes presentations which aim to illustrate the several activities carried out during this five-year project. The presentations will be about the risk assessment methodology, the environmental and archaeological data processing chains, and the GIS and WebGIS Platform developed.

Please, see the program attached for more details. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of the organizers via e-mail (Stefano De Angeli: deangeli@unitus.it; Fabiana Battistin: fabiana.battistin@hotmail.it).

THE FOURTH SUMMER SCHOOL IN NICOSIA SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED!

The Fourth Summer School organized in the frame of Project RESEARCH by S3 and Università degli Studi della Tuscia (UNITUS) is concluded. Since this was the last RESEARCH Summer School, it is worth saying that the Summer School experience was quite significant for the Project, since it offered the opportunity to illustrate and discuss project methods and achievements with a broader scientific community, thus disseminating the results of the Project and implementing the networking, among partners and external researchers. The Project RESEARCH thanks all the speakers and participants that in those years participated in the four RESEARCH Summer Schools.

For further details please visit the dedicated page.

The next and last appointment with Project RESEARCH will be the Final Conference in Rome on the 17th of October. Follow us for further updates and don’t miss it! 

RESEARCH FINAL CONFERENCE

The Final Conference of Project RESEARCH will be held in Rome (Italy) on the 17th of October 2023. The program will be published in the next few days on this website.

THE PROGRAM OF THE FOURTH SUMMER SCHOOL OF RESEARCH IS NOW ONLINE!

The Fourth Summer School of RESEARCH project will be held in Nicosia (Cyprus) from the 3rd to the 5th of October 2023. 

The Summer School is organized by S3 and 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.

If you want to follow the Summer School online, you can directly connect to the following links:

The practical session planned for the morning of the 5th of October is only available in presence.

FOURTH SUMMER SCHOOL IN NICOSIA (CYPRUS)

The Fourth Summer School of Project RESEARCH is organized by Space Systems Solutions (S3) ltd. and will be held in Nicosia (Cyprus) from the 3rd to the 5th of October 2023. The program and information to participate will be published soon on this website.

Cisowo and Dzierżęcin III: The Last Survey

The AMU team (Włodzimierz Rączkowski, Filip Wałdoch, Aleksandra Froehlich, Julia Lipowy, Paweł Dmitrijew, Mikołaj Kasprzak and Jan Czeski) returned to Cisowo and Dzierżęcin on March 24th – 26th to conduct their last survey on these sites. This year the weather fulfilled a well-known Polish proverb which translates roughly to: “In March like in a pot”. We experienced mainly wind and clouds, which gifted us sometimes with rainy snow, snowy hail and once heavy rain, all separated by short periods of clear sky and sun. These obviously “helpful” conditions turned the soil into gluey mud which hampered our research greatly. Despite these adversities, we managed to finish the survey on time, guided by Prof. Rączkowski (Fig. 1).

We (well, except those of us who participated in the survey for the first time) waited the whole year to be finally able to return to Cisowo and Dzierżęcin. Hundreds of vividly orange flags were prepared. The clear focus on our faces was a mere physical echo of our deeply motivated souls (Fig. 2).

As previously, we used the RTK GPS to record every visible artefact found and marked with the orange flag during our field survey(which each of us also recorded with a portable GPS) (Fig. 3,4). Sadly, but in truth after the previous season’s “failure” in this area unsurprisingly, this time we also have not found any artefacts marked with a colourful paint during the previous surveys – wrong method of marking or formation processes?

The dedication of some of the participants must be exceptionally approved. The most honourable of us willingly offered to devote to the cause their material possessions, such as cars etc… Mikołaj (Fig. 5) with his unearthly driving skills and his loyal automobile saved us from digging our way out of the road supposedly leading to the survey site in Dzierżęcin, which we relentlessly yet ineptly tried to surmount. However, later we decided to achieve our goal on foot and succeeded (Fig. 6). 

Nevertheless, this way we proved that the previous manner of getting there, namely breaking through the forest, was surprisingly the easier and safer one (Fig. 7). However, we all felt that the hardships made us stronger and better researchers. Our expedition concluded with a visit to the Baltic shore – strangely though, none of us was eager to use the opportunity and swim (Fig. 8). 

Now it is time to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the data collected throughout three seasons of surveying, hopefully being finally able to answer the profound question of how erosion and ploughing influence the dispersion of artefacts.

Text by Jan Czeski, Photos by AMU Team.

The Intermediate Conference in Viterbo is concluded!

The Intermediate Conference organized in the frame of Project RESEARCH by the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (UNITUS) is concluded. The organizers and Project coordinator thank all the speakers and participants for the interesting presentation and discussion!

For further details please visit the dedicated page

The appointment with the Final Conference of the RESEARCH Project is in October 2023 in Rome (Italy).

The Third Summer School in Viterbo successfully concluded!

The third Summer School organized in the frame of Project RESEARCH by the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (UNITUS) is concluded. The organizers and Project coordinator thank all the speakers and participants for the interesting lectures and discussion!

For further details please visit the dedicated page.

The next and last appointment with the RESEARCH Project Summer School is September 2023 in Limassol (Cyprus).

The Program of the Intermediate Conference of RESEARCH is now online!

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).