摘要：The Department of Modern Languages and Classics at Saint Mary’sUniversity will be offering a field school in the territories of Genzano diLucania and Banzi, Basilicata, Italy. The field school will allowstudents to participate in an ongoing archaeological research project, (the Basentello Valley Archaeological Research Project: BVARP, please see www.sanfelice.ca), focused on the reconstruction ofsettlement patterns in the Basentello River Valley of Basilicata for thepurpose of understanding better the cultural interaction betweenpre-Roman indigenous peoples and Roman migrants and settlers. Students will learn the basic techniques of archaeological field survey,finds processing and analysis, environmental archaeology, photography, drawing, mapping, and data entry. Students will alsobe able to participate in archaeological excavations at the earlyimperial villa site of San Felice and, possibly, in the excavation of asecond century AD cemetery at the site of Vagnari. Students will work5 days a week on site and will have their weekends free to visit nearbyarchaeological and touristic sites such as Venosa, Lecce, Bari, Matera, Metapontum, the Gargano Peninsula, and Trani, or toparticipate in organized field trips to sites in the region. There will beone long weekend in the middle of the field school during which timestudents will be given a guided tour of the site of Pompeii.
