THE ROMAN AUXILLIARY CAMP "CAMBUSTICA"

The Bulgarian Archaeological Association (BAA) is pleased to announce the next season of the Cambustica fieldwork. The BAA Archaeological Field School was founded in 2003 as a Training School for students of archaeology and is based in Northwest Bulgaria. The Field School is involved in a study of the Roman culture in the region, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites.

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 a significant site. The field school 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.

The field school takes between July 5 and August 29, 2010.

The cost varies by module and length of stay. For more information go to our Price list here

The project is directed by Krassimira Luka and is funded by Bulgarian Archaeological Association

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