Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici

The course introduces the tools of preventive archaeology, both as theoretical, regulatory and practical operative issues, as for Italy. Preventive archaeology is a strategy for minimizing the risk of archaeological destruction and a practice for maximizing the recovered archaeological information through research forced by landscape transformations. The theoretical rationale lies in the relevance of the traces of the past for present and future communities; the target corresponds to the development of shared and diffuse knowledge, as common good. Countries adhering to the Council of Europe presently refer to the Valletta Charter (1992), locally applied by the signing partners, in the wider worldwide framework. The capacity of preventive action depends on a synthesis of skills in the management of digital, geomorphological, stratigraphic and material culture data, deriving from teamwork.