The Vulci 3000 Project, Italy - Institute for Field Research


Location: Vulci, Italy

Season: 
June 16, 2019 to July 13, 2019

Application Deadline: 
Friday, April 5, 2019

Deadline Type: 
Rolling

Website: 
http://ifrglobal.org/program/italy-vulci/

Flyer: PDF icon syllabus-italy-vulci-2019.pdf

Program Type

Field school

RPA certified

no

Affiliation:

Institute for Field Research, Connecticut College, Duke University

Project Director:

Dr. Maurizio Forte

Project Description

Vulci 3000, a multidisciplinary archaeological research project that employs advanced digital technologies, is focused on the Etruscan and Roman site of Vulci (10th–3rd c. BCE–4th c. CE). Located in the Province of Viterbo, Italy, Vulci was one of the largest and most important cities in the 1st millennium BCE in the Italian peninsula. This project will analyze and track the transformation and development of Vulci into a city, then city-state, and finally into a Roman city, and serve to interpret models of urban transformation in the ancient world. The habitation site is a unique, stratified, and mostly untouched, urban context that includes, in the same area, Iron Age, Etruscan, Roman and Medieval settlements.

Period(s) of Occupation: Etruscan & Roman

Project size: 
1-24 participants

Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: Participants are required to stay for the full duration of the field school.

Minimum age: 
18

Experience required: 
No experience required.

Room and Board Arrangements

Students will live in apartments in Montalto Marina, a charming seaside town, 15 minutes away from the site. Large, Italian style lunch will be provided daily in the field at a local family own restaurant at the site of Vulci. Students are responsible for their own dinner and breakfast (there are several supermarkets, groceries and bars at a walking distance from the apartments). Students are responsible for their own food on weekends. The accommodation will be in new apartments, fully equipped with kitchen, fridge, washing machines and related tools. All the participants have to bring bed sheets.

Cost: 
Room and Board is included in the cost of the program.

Academic Credit

Name of institution offering credit: 
Connecticut College
Number of credits offered 8 Semester Credits
Tuition: 
$3,990

Location

Contact Information
Institute for Field Research
2999 Overland Ave. Suite 103
Los Angeles
CA
USA
90064
info@ifrglobal.org
Telephone: 
424-209-1173
Recommended Bibliography: 

READINGS

The readings listed below will be posted online for students to access in advance of the project. At the end of each week there will be a discussion session with all students concerning the readings.

1st week

McCusker, K. and M. Forte. “The Vulci 3000 Project: A Digital Workflow and Disseminating Data,” 2016 Chacmool Conference Proceedings.

E.C. Harris. 1989. Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy, second edition, Academic Press, London

2nd week

I. M. B. Wiman. 2013. Etruscan Environments, in The Etruscan World, edited by Jean Macintosh Turfa. Routledge, New York pp. 11-28.

V. Jolivet. 2013. A long twighlight (396-90 BC): Romanization of Etruria in The Etruscan World, edited by Jean Macintosh Turfa. Routledge, New York pp. 151-79.

3rd week

L. Cerchiai. 2001. The ideology of the Etruscan city, in Torelli, M. (ed.) The Etruscans. Exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Grassi. London: Thames and Hudson (2001), pp. 43-254.

R. Leighton. 2013. Urbanization in Southern Etruria in The Etruscan World, edited by Jean Macintosh Turfa. Routledge, New York pp. 134-150.

General reference: Turfa Macintosh, J.,2013, The Etruscan World, Routledge.

All the readings and PowerPoint presentations will be shared with the students before the field season.