Wednesday 18 May 2011

Herculaneum: challenges and discoveries - Cambridge, 24 May 2011

HERCULANEUM: CHALLENGES AND DISCOVERIES

Workshop at the Cambridge Classics Faculty – Tuesday 24 May 2011

FIRST MORNING SESSION: Chair, Professor Martin Millett

9.00                       Welcome and introduction –
                              Andrew Wallace-Hadrill : Research in the context of conservation
                              
9.30-11.00           Herculaneum and the seafront
9:30                     Aldo Cinque & Linda Irollo: Natural dynamics and human                              activities along the ancient coastline
10:00                     Domenico Camardo: excavation of an ancient roof
10:30                     Luca Bondioli and Luciano Fattore: the human skeletal remains

11.00-11.30        Coffee break

SECOND MORNING SESSION: Chair, Professor Mary Beard

11.30-1.00           An insula and its drains
11:30                     Domenico Camardo:  the excavation of the Insula Orientalis II                                sewer
12:00                     Mark Robinson & Erica Rowan: the organic remains from the                                sewer
12:30                     Stefania Siano: Ceramics, glass and other objects from the                                sewer

1.00-2.30             lunch break       

FIRST AFTERNOON SESSION: Chair, Dr Henry Hurst

2.30-3.30             Recording and managing the site
2.30                       Massimo Brizzi:  In aid of conservation - topographical survey in                                HCP
2.45                       Ascanio D’Andrea:  making GIS a real tool for heritage                                management
3.00                       Jane Thompson & Sarah Court: what HCP’s results mean for                                archaeologists

3.30-4.00             tea break

SECOND AFTERNOON SESSION: Chair, Professor Stefano De Caro

4.00-6.00             Bourbon excavations revisited
4.00                       Domenico Esposito:  rediscovering the Basilica Noniana
4.30                       Peter Garnsey and Luuk de Ligt: the marble album
5.00                       Maria Paola Guidobaldi: the Villa of the Papyri


6:00-7:30 RECEPTION IN THE MUSEUM OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
hosted by Frances Lincoln Publishers, to celebrate the publication of
Herculaneum: Past and Future by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

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