Archaeological Sciences

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of ROMAN PROVINCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. The aim of this course is to provide students, through significant cases of Provincial Archaeology, wide knowledge of the Roman Provincial culture, of relationship between centre and periphery, as well as a framework of the main historical, cultural and religious dynamics regarding the Western and Eastern Provinces. The course will focus on the administration of the Empire, on the urban and domestic Culture, as well as on the Sacred and Funerary space.