Topic ID #36360 - posted 11/16/2015 5:21 AM
BalkanHeritage
Balkan Heritage Field School Season 2016
BalkanHeritage
Dear colleagues, partners, students and friends,
I am pleased to announce that the Balkan Heritage Field School (
Check all the projects and courses that are offered in season 2016 below in this e-mail or at the BHFS website at: http://www.bhfieldschool.org/project . They are affiliated with ongoing research and/or conservation projects (such as excavations, expeditions, conservation workshops). The available projects/courses take place at different excavation sites and historic places
. They are related to all major cultures and civilizations that once existed in the Balkans starting with the Balkan
Prehistory: Neolithic
, Copper, Bronze and Iron ages followed by Ancient Greek
, Thracian and Roman, Byzantine and Medieval Balkan as well as Ottoman civilizations. Conservation
workshops/courses
deal with ancient Greek pottery, Roman and Late Antique pottery and glassware, mosaics and wall-paintings
based on authentic artifacts.
Benefit from:
1. Our Special Early Bird (15% by 20 December, 2015) and Early Bird (10% by 31 January, 2016) discounts off the admission fees!
2. The SPECIAL project packs combining up to three different projects located in up to two countries and providing a more comprehensive and longer (up to 8 weeks) experience as well as beneficial discounts off the admission fees
(available
on our website after 20 November, 2015);
3.
Academic
credits
awarded upon request
to students participating in the BHFS
through
our academic partners in EU, USA and Canada.
4. The BHF-IFR Program for the Balkans
. Thanks to this Program students attending some of the Balkan Heritage Field School four- and five-week project sessions and packs can now earn 12 quarter credit units (equivalent to 8 semester credit units). These credit units are awarded by the IFR's academic partner – University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension, USA. In 2016 the BHF-IFR Program for the Balkans will award three merit-based scholarships– 1,200 USD each – for students attending the Program's projects.
5. All the tours around the Balkans including Istanbul (Turkey), Athens, Delphi, Philippi, Pella and Vergina (Greece) as well as many UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia and Serbia.
ARCHAEOLOGY & EXCAVATION
NEW PROJECT! BRESTO: DIGGING IN THE TIME OF TROY+ OPTIONAL TOUR OF PHILIPPI AND KAVALA (Greece)
Major field school topics/activities:
archaeological field techniques and methods for excavation and documentation
;
archaeology and history of Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages
; artifact biographies and cultural encounters
;
interdisciplinary studies related to archaeology
(zooarchaeology,
paleobotanics, geoarchaeology etc.)
; recording of prehistoric (Bronze and Iron Age) artifacts, finds and samples processing
; excursions to significant heritage sites in Bulgaria and Greece.
Season Dates: 26 July -
23 August, 2016
Academic credits available for students: up to
12
THE BIRTH OF EUROPE - EXCAVATION OF THE NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT ILINDENTSI (Bulgaria) + OPTIONAL TOUR OF PHILIPPI AND KAVALA (Greece)
Major field school topics/activities: archaeological field techniques and methods
for excavation and documentation, archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean and Balkans during the Neolithic period, Neolithic ceramic studies and documentation of Neolithic pottery, finds and samples processing, excursions to significant heritage sites in Bulgaria and Greece.
Season Dates: 12 June - 10 July, 2016
Academic credits available for students: up to
12
TELL YUNATSITE EXCAVATIONS - SEEKING EUROPE'S FIRST CIVILIZATION (Bulgaria)
Major field school topics/activities: archaeological field techniques and methods
for excavation and documentation (in regard of specifics of tell’s excavation)
; Europe's first civilization in Chalcolithic
; warfare in Prehistory
; 3D intra-site modelling and documentation/GIS spatial analysis in archaeology
; documentation of prehistoric (Copper and Bronze Age) weapons, tools and shards
; finds and samples processing
; excursions to significant heritage sites in Thrace, Bulgaria
Season Dates: 26 June - 24 July, 2016
Season Dates: 26 June - 24 July, 2016
Academic credits available for students: up to 12