- This course examines surveying, excavation and documentation methods and techniques, both on land and underwater. Students are introduced to field archaeology and the various types of archaeological sites, finds and materials. The course focuses on the following:
- Locating sites on land and underwater (surveying methods and techniques)
- Excavation on land and underwater
- Natural site-formation processes
- Cultural site-formation processes
- Adapting the excavation method to the particularities of the site
- Types of finds and materials, and conditions of preservation
- Documentation methods and techniques
- Relative and absolute dating techniques
- Lifting and recording finds
- Interdisciplinarity in the field and collaborative projects
- Study, interpretation and publication of finds
- Experimental and digital archaeologies
- Ethics in archaeology