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Summer School in Georgia and Armenia 2022

The Caucasus with a view from Nazarlebi (Foto: P. Bukhrashvili).

With the support of Volkswagen Foundation, the Department of Oriental Archaeology and Art History at Martin Luther University organised a Summer School on excavation techniques and documentation at the excavations Samreklo/Georgia and Artanish/Armenia in summer 2022.

Course leaders

This course was conducted by Dr. Simone Arnhold and Dr. René Kunze.

Drone image of Samreklo in summer 2019 (Photo: J. Abele)

Contributors

• Jonas Abele M.A. (Remote sensing),
• Dr. Sabina Brodbeck-Jucker (Pottery),
• Dr. Erika Capelletto (Graphics/Drawing/GIS),
• JProf. Dr. Hubert Mara (Digital Humanities),
• Dr.Sci. Khachatur Meliksetian, Tim Rödel M.Sc. (Geology),
• Dr. Kristina Schellen-Novaček (Anthropology),
• Dipl-Geophys. Burkhart Ullrich (Geophysics),
• Kornelia Kasperkiewicz M.A. (Surveying).

Course aims

• Excavation methods and surveying,
• Pottery processing and documentation,
• Remote sensing,
• Measuring,
• Contamination-free sampling,
• Digital Humanities Workshop,
• Insight into object photography, computer-aided drawing, GIS, and AutoCAD,
• Anthropological workshop (recovery, restoration, and analysis of human skeletal remains),
• Geological workshop.

The Summer School is organised with the support of the Volkswagen Foundation.

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