[Anthsoc] Fwd: Roman Baths at Carsulae (Italy) Field School, June 12 - July 23, 2011

[David Lubell]

FYI

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The field school at the Roman baths at Carsulae will commence its 
seventh season this summer, and applications for students and volunteers 
are still being accepted.

The Roman city of Carsulae was founded along the via Flaminia, when that 
road was cut through Umbria in the late third century BC. Located near 
the town of San Gemini, the area has been associated with healing waters 
since Umbrian times. The Roman baths, which lie at the threshold of 
southern entrance to the city, were excavated in the 1950s by the 
then-superintendent of archaeology, Umberto Ciotti. The site has lain 
exposed since then. The goals of the project are to consolidate the 
exposed remains and to explore the structure further in order to 
determine its full plan and the form of its earliest phase, which, if 
contemporary with the founding of the city, may be one of the oldest 
Roman baths in existence. In fact, our most recent excavations have 
revealed Roman reuse of massive structures that appear to be earlier 
than the traditionally accepted date of the founding of the city.

Recent seasons have also focused on a wall of opus polygonale to the 
east of the bath structure. It consists of two arms at right angles to 
each other, one leading toward a cistern in opus caementicum, which 
served the baths in the Imperial period, and the other toward a flight 
of five steps, which appear to lead up to the Via Flaminia. The former 
has revealed an extension in wattle and daub: a transitional wall 
between the polygonal wall and the concrete-built cistern. The latter 
arm is overlaid with a shallow pool in tile-paved concrete, which may be 
a public fountain at the southern entrance to the city. All three zones 
within the current excavation area have revealed various forms of 
masonry construction, which indicate long use and many centuries of 
rebuilding.

Participants will be instructed in:
•     excavation strategies, techniques and recording
•     handling and conservation of artifacts
•     drafting of site plans
•     analytical rendering

Additional details:
•     Minimum age: 16 years
•     Minimum stay: 3 weeks
•     No experience necessary
•     Cost $800/week (includes housing & weekday meals)
•     Participants will be housed in various apartments, monasteries or 
palaces in San Gemini
•     Application deadline: April 2, 2011
•     Application available on our website
•     Academic credit available through Valdosta State University

Further information:

website: www.valdosta.edu/~jwhitehe/Carsulaeweb/Carsulae_home.htm 
<http://www.valdosta.edu/%7Ejwhitehe/Carsulaeweb/Carsulae_home.htm>

Excavation Director: Prof. Jane Whitehead (jwhitehe at valdosta.edu 
<mailto:jwhitehe at valdosta.edu>)

*For information Contact:*Wendy Hallman at wchallman at gmail.com 
<mailto:wchallman at gmail.com>

Downloadable flyer:
http://www.valdosta.edu/~jwhitehe/Carsulaeweb/Carsulae_program_details.htm 
<http://www.valdosta.edu/%7Ejwhitehe/Carsulaeweb/Carsulae_program_details.htm>
(scroll down to "2011 Poster for Carsulae")

*Prof. Jane Whitehead*

Department of Modern and Classical Languages

Valdosta State University,

Valdosta, GA 31698.

call: 229-249-4915, fax: 229-333-7416.

jwhitehe at valdosta.edu


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