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Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Getting smarter every day

Besides getting new experiences in field-working, we are also trained intellectually with lectures presented by experts.  During a lecture we can recharge with energy and get a lot of new and interesting information at the same time.


We heard about the roman period and about technologies and methods which can be useful on an excavation. This year first we learnt about glass and everything that belongs to it, for example how it is produced, about finds that are made of glass and so on. This presentation took us closer to those little pieces of glass which we mostly find and helped to imagine how they looked like. There was also a lecture about 3D photography which is a quite new technology that is useful in the documentation process. Hopefully it will be a general thing at all the excavations in the future. We also had a lecture related to the archaeological and cultic discoveries of Apulum, which offered us wide knowledge about the location where the excavation is taking place.


We all were very enthusiastic about these lectures as we got some insight on the theoretical parts of archaeology, which will be as useful as the practical skills gained outside on the field.

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