BAA Field School
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One of the most exciting abilities nowadays is the ability of modem people to meet the works, thoughts and feelings of their forefathers. The spiritual interests of the humans has created a science intended to investigate the human past using new methods and technical equipment. This science is called by the Greek name - archaeology (archaos - ancient and logos - studies) which means the science about the antiquity. The antiquity is covered up by the forgetfulness of the sands and by the silence of the thousand years and only from time to time it reveals something of itself yielding to the persistence of the archaeologist. One can meet the antiquity every day especially in a country as Bulgaria that is extremely rich by the evidences of the time passed.
Since 2001 the Bulgarian Archaeological Association offers to the students from all over the world the opportunity to be part of the archaeological work. 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 some of the most interesting significant sites. Each destination offers field work processing and recording artifacts, different lectures and a visit to near-by archaeological location.
Our practical courses:
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 2009 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.
