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Archaeology & Anthropology 2018
Global Journal of Research and Review
ISSN: 2393-8854
Page 32
October 01-02, 2018
London, UK
1
st
Edition of international Conference on
Archaeology and
Anthropology
In 2014 I proposed to start a project of a new approach to
archeology and stratigraphical excavation as a researchmethod in
Cortona (AR) thanks to experimental and simulative archaeology.
The idea is to understand if it is possible to investigate our
contemporary society through material culture and our methods
of study like stratigraphical research and excavation. If, during
an excavation, we can find a context of objects in different raw
materials, and these ones show us a general reading of the
circumstances why those findings are in such environment, we
are in the right direction. And of course we the chance to know
that context in advance because it is contemporary and therefore
already acquired by direct knowledge. Then we can directly check
the veracity of the conclusions of our archaeological research.
The same if we collect a series of objects of the same category
and make a classification of them in a typological catalog, will
they tell us the truth? Moreover, this “experiment” would finally
confirm the scientific nature of archaeological research.
Finally in 2018, to achieve this test we have set up at Parco
archeologico Del Sodo in Cortona (AR) an experimental
archaeological field where to dig contemporary layers. A first
group used some students of secondary school involved in a
simulated excavation lesson, to verify which kind of situation,
stratigraphy and objects we could find and then to draw
conclusions to proceed further. The results were so interesting
to encourage us to continue on this direction and to expand our
investigation on several fronts. Another group will be engaged in
the classification of some classes of materials, such as bottles, to
try to define a cultural aspect of the contemporaneity.
Keywords:
Contemporaneity, Method, Excavations, Experiments.
Recent Publications
1. L’Elbael’ArcipelagoToscano.Leavventurearcheologiche
di Ilvo, Roste e Velia. Guida per ragazzi. Pisa 2010
2. La preistoria. La vita quotidiana nella Toscana antica,
AMAT, Firenze 2013
3. Metodologia ordinativa dei motivi decorativi applicata
alla ceramica vascolare dell’età del Bronzo finale nell’
Italia medio-tirrenica in “Atti XLII Riun Sc I.I.P.P. Arte
preistorica in Italia – Trento 2007” Trento 2014
4. La collezione etrusca del MAEC. Guida breve, Cortona
2018
Biography
Stefano Rossi completed his degree (Prehistoric Archaeology) in 1993 and
Special School of Archaeology (Prehistory and Proto-history) in 2000 at Uni-
versity of Florence, and several Masters. He is member of IIPP (Italian Insti-
tute of Prehistory), Accademia Etrusca di Cortona and ICOM. He founded
andworks for a private society (Aion Cultura) from1995 in Cortona (Arezzo),
for which he is the coordinator of archaeological projects. He is active main-
ly at Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e ella Città di Cortona – MAEC, in which
is responsable of themanaging for archaeological sector. He is involved dai-
ly with educational in museums and communication with a large audience.
His research area is Bronze Age, Etruscans, Excavations, Educational, Mu-
seums, Exhibitions, Relations between contemporaneity and ancient world.
He dug about 50 excavations, most of them as coordinator or director. He
has published more than 20 scientific papers and popular books. He gave
several lectures for different Universities.
rostef26@yahoo.itStefano Rossi
Aion Cultura – Cortona MAEC, Italy
Stefano Rossi, Glob J Res Rev 2018, Volume 5
DOI: 10.21767/2393-8854-C1-003
Contemporary Archaeology