Week Five – Your Questions Answered
Video addressing questions relating to Week five.
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Race and bioarchaeology: what else can we do with human remains?
On the Archaeology of Portus course this week we've been looking at the People of Portus. Analysing human remains is an extremely delicate process, both practically and ethically. Archaeologists take any activities associated with human remains very seriously. It wasn't surprising that Andrew Dufton's post about the Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets course also included reference to these ethical issues.
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Who were the people who made the amphorae for Portus? The evidence from manufacturing techniques
An understanding of the manufacturing techniques and of the production sequence in terms of how pots are made provides us with an insight into the people making the ceramics. The clay, the raw material, is a plastic additive medium, allowing for traces of its manipulation by the potters, to be left in the finished ceramic product. Fashioning methods, or manufacturing techniques, used in creating a vessel are usually detectable.
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Week five in Italian
Eleonora Gandolfi has translated the activities from week five into Italian to add to our overview of the course. More Italian materials are on the way.
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Conservation and computational imaging technologies
I’m Eleni Kotoula, a PhD student in the Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton. I am a conservator of antiquities and works of art and I have worked in practical conservation since 2004 in museums and cultural organizations in Greece. My conservation research is focused on non-destructive analysis of archaeological material and accelerating ageing of adhesives/ consolidants used in conservation.
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Sharing links
David Potts who is a PhD student in the Archaeological Computing Research Group at Southampton has extracted the links that were shared on the platform in the first few weeks. We will update this list to help you to build your own reference collections of supplementary material. Add the end of the course we will archive these links to scoop.it and delicious.com to make them more accessible.
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Ceramics as material culture: Study of the North African amphorae from Portus
Ceramics are a very important type of archaeological evidence at sites, with the potential to inform us about chronology and society. They come up at various points in the Archaeology of Portus course and this blog posts provides some extra information based on my research.
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