Week Two Archives - Archaeology Blogs

Sharing links

David Potts who is a PhD student in the Archaeological Computing Research Group at Southampton has extracted the links that were shared on the platform in the first few weeks. We will update this list to help you to build your own reference collections of supplementary material. Add the end of the course we will archive these links to scoop.it and delicious.com to make them more accessible. Continue reading →

Roman ships at Portus

In response to queries from learners I thought I would provide some additional information about evidence for the Roman ships at Portus. We can expect the basins and canals at Portus to have been crowded with hundreds of commercial ships and boats; one recent estimate, for example, suggests that c. 1800 sea-going ships may have anchored in the Trajanic basin each year. Continue reading →

Week two topics in Italian

Terrazza di Traiano On the Italian version of this post I have provide a brief summary of the activities for week two. Feel free to post any queries in Italian to me via twitter. Continue reading →

Ceramics as material culture: Study of the North African amphorae from Portus

Fig. 1 Rim of Africana 1A from Portus in Sullecthum fabric Ceramics are a very important type of archaeological evidence at sites, with the potential to inform us about chronology and society. They come up at various points in the Archaeology of Portus course and this blog posts provides some extra information based on my research. Continue reading →

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