ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF NAVIGATION

Il corso è inserito tra gli esami caratterizzanti per l'indirizzo archeologico del corso di laurea magistrale in Scienze dell'Antichità.
Esso intende offrire agli studenti un quadro dell’evoluzione della costruzione navale dalle origini all’età moderna, con un occhio alle tecniche costruttive in legno “tradizionali” contemporanee, nel Mediterraneo.
Introduce alle caratteristiche e alle problematiche della navigazione nel mondo antico e post-antico attraverso l’analisi delle fonti tradizionali e della fonte materiale.
Analizza le tecniche per la documentazione degli scafi di relitti sia sul campo (in contesto subacqueo e di terra) sia in laboratorio e per la ricostruzione ipotetica delle imbarcazioni dai resti archeologici e dell’iconografia, affronta i temi del restauro e della musealizzazione in ambito navale e della esposizione di relitti di scafi nonché dell’archeologia sperimentale applicata all’ambito navale.
L'insegnamento fa parte del percorso tematico dedicato all'archeologia costiera e delle comunità marittime e lagunari (https://www.unive.it/pag/14024/?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=9116&cHash=8521d4e05ce7af23eb5c9411c912173b ).

1. Knowledge and comprehension.
- Awareness of the main problematics of the research and of the safeguard in the field of the nautical archaeology and history, of the possibilities of valorization of the nautical cultural heritage and of the methodology and of the techniques applied in this field.
- knowledge of the general lines about the evolution of the ship-construction from the Prehistory to the Late Middle Age.
- basic knowledge of the ancient and Medieval nautical techniques.
2. Ability to apply knowledges and understanding.
- to be able to apply the methodology and the techniques of the nautical archaeology for the research, safeguard and valorization.
3. Judgement
- to be able to consciously apply the more suitable methodology and techniques according to the type of research, of action of safeguard or of activity of valorization, both in underwater environment and in land environment, and to be able to understand the more important aspects of the nautical archaeological evidence contextualizing it in its historical panorama.

Basic knowledge of the history and of the archaeology of the ancient and Medieval Mediterranean and of the archaeological methods. It is useful to have followed a course of archaeological methodology during the BA.

History of the studies; evolution of ship-construction, in the Mediterranean, from the origins to the Modern Age, history of the ancient and Medieval navigation (with special focus on Venetian navigation), history and archaeology of the Venetian naval ordnance; method and technique of the underwater and land nautical archaeological nautical research; reconstruction in naval archaeology, nautical experimental archaeology, musealization and restoration in naval archaeology.

Main books:
1. Carlo Beltrame, 2012, Archeologia marittima del Mediterraneo. Navi, merci e porti dall'antichità all'età moderna, Roma.

ONLY to integrate the iconographical apparatus: R. Steffy, 1994, Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks, College Station, pp. 23-100 or P. Pomey, E. Rieth, 2005, L'archeologie navale, Paris.

2. Stefano Medas, 2022, Nautica antica. Itinerari nel mondo della navigazione tra storia, archeologia ed etnografia, Roma. Or Arnaud, P., 2020, Les routes de la navigation antique. Itinéraires en Méditerranée et Mer Noire, Parigi o ancora Arnaud, P., 2005, Les routes de la navigation antique. Itinéraires en Méditerranée, Parigi

Students who can not attend the lectures are invited to complete the study of the books with some goods notes or, in alternative, with the following literature:

- C, Beltrame, 2002, Le sutiles naves romane lungo il litorale alto Adriatico. Nuove testimonianze e considerazioni tecnologiche , Archeologia subacquea. Studi, ricerche e documenti, Roma, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, vol. 3, pp. 353-379.
- C. Beltrame, 2017, Documentare in archeologia navale , Archeologia Subacquea. QUADERNI DELLA SCUOLA INTERDISCIPLINARE DELLE METODOLOGIE ARCHEOLOGICHE (SIMA), 3, Istituto di Studi Liguri, vol. 3, pp. 159-174.
- R. Steffy, 1994, Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks, College Station, pp. 189-234.
- C. Beltrame, M. Morin, 2014, I cannoni di Venezia. Artiglierie della Serenissima da fortezze e relitti, Firenze.

Who is interested in theoretical aspects can read also: J. Adams, A Marittime Archaeology of Ships, Oxford, pp. 1-51.

Erasmus students can request from the professor a literature in English language.

The test of the learning consists of an oral exam to verify the level of comprehension of the arguments exposed during the lessons and of the texts suggested and to verify the mastery of an adequate base of archaeological methodology and of an adequate technical terminology.

Foreign students can ask to be interviewed in English.

Traditional frontal lessons with projections of Power Point presentations. The slides of the lessons will be distributed available on Moodle.

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The professor will offer to selected students to partecipate to projects of maritime archaeology and of promotion of the nautical cultural heritage.

For this information the student can ask the professor during the office hours or he can contact him to the e-mail address.

The attendance of the course is strongly suggested at least for the methodological part.

An agreement between the Rari Nantes diving club and the Atheneum allows discounts on the cost of the courses to take a diving license.

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