Field School in Sanisera Necropolis

The Sanisera Archaeology Institute for International Field Schools offers an annual archaeology dig on the island of Menorca, off the coast of Spain. Since then it has organized courses for students who come from all over the world to study abroad and who are interested in anthropology.


What will I learn?
 
In the Fieldwork
How to dig and which archaeological techniques are used.

Use and handling of the tools that are used during the excavation process.

Basic principles of stratigraphy.

Basic procedures for collecting C14 samples.

In the Laboratory
Cleaning, Inventory and cataloging of recovered human bones during the excavation process.

Basics of the methods used in human osteological analysis, including skeletal anatomy, palaeodemography and palaeopathology.

Learning how to identify age, sex and height of buried individuals.

Relative dating based on the classification of archaeological artifacts discovered in stratigraphic sequence.
 
Theory
Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Bioarchaeology

Skeletal Anatomy –Terminology-: generalities, dental structure, skull and other bones.

History, archaeology, economy and culture of the Roman civilization.

Introduction to the History of the Sanisera Site.

The background of Roman funerary rituals.

Minorcan archaeology before the Roman conquest of the Balearic Islands.


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Digging Anthropology in the Sanisera Necropolis (Menorca – Spain)

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