ROMAN PROJECT field school

It is now some seven years since the Bulgarian Archaeological Association (BAA) has started the ROMAN PROJECT fieldwork. By now, the program incorporates a research excavation at different sites and is involved in a study of the Roman culture. The BAA field school offers a unique combination of fieldwork, on-site instruction by expert archaeologists, and visits to major museums and open-air sites. Participants have the chance to get their minds, hands, and shovels into the material vestiges of three significant sites (roman fortress, roman villa and the biggest roman town in the region). Each destination offers field work processing and recording artifacts, different lectures and a visit to near-by archaeological location. The practical courses will: - Acquaint participants with the fundamentals of Roman material cultures of south-eastern Europe. - Offer a crash-course in the methods and practices of modern archeology. - Introduce participants to the technical side of keeping archeological record, conducting field surveys, keeping trench notebooks, organizing and inventorying finds, conservation on site, and filing field reports out of field journals. - Introduce participants to the strategies for historical conservation of the material remains of the past, the methods of their incorporation in the living communities of the present. In 2008 the project will include also additional courses focused on the professional development of the participants (Drawing and Sketching, Ceramic workshop) provided by highly skilled artists.