Archaeological Musealization

A través de este artículo presentamos la exposición «Galaicos, un pueblo entre dos mundos» que entre los años 2018 y 2020 itinerará por varios museos de la geografía española. Partiendo de los objetivos y la tesis sobre las que se fundamenta la exposición, iremos desglosando cada uno de los ámbitos que la componen, ilustrado ello a través de los yacimientos arqueológicos clave de cada momento.
Through this article we present the exhibition «Galaicos, a people between two worlds» that between 2018 and 2020 will travel through several museums of the Spanish geography. Based on the objectives and the thesis on which the exhibition is based, we will theoretically break down each of the areas that comprise it, illustrated through the key archaeological sites of each moment.

Con motivo del proyecto ganador del Concurso internacional de ideas y proyectos para la recuperación de los márgenes ríos Tajo y Alberche en el término municipal de Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), bajo el título “Cuando el rio suena”, se han realizado varias propuestas basadas en la valorización de los recursos naturales y patrimoniales en torno al cauce del río, el cual ha sido interpretado como un paisaje cultural. En este sentido, se ha tenido en cuenta la integración de arquitectura, ingeniería, el respeto a los valores naturales del río y la protección de los ecosistemas, así como la inclusión de medidas de regeneración para riberas e islas y el fomento del disfrute social del río.

Las acciones han sido planteadas mediante actuaciones complementarias que parten de la sostenibilidad y el desarrollo territorial, bajo el enfoque de la interpretación del patrimonio en un amplio sentido. Del total de 12 propuestas que conforman el proyecto, tres de ellas están orientadas hacia la rehabilitación del patrimonio cultural para su posterior reaprovechamiento e interpretación. De este modo, se presentarán los planteamientos de los anteproyectos: A.1. Recuperación y regeneración de la vegetación palustre ribereña, podas y limpiezas selectivas; A.2. Rediseño del frente fluvial de la margen derecha del Tajo y su integración en el entorno urbano; A.3. Rediseño del área del embarcadero actual; A.4. Circuito Peatonal del Rio Tajo; A.5. Recualificación de los parques ribereños de la margen izquierda del Tajo; A.6. Rehabilitación de la Central Hidroeléctrica Virgen del Pilar y del Horno Tejar de la Isla de los Molinos; A.7. Rehabilitación del puente del río Alberche y Fortines de la Guerra Civil; A.8. Acondicionamiento de azudes y recuperación de canales de derivación y desagüe; A.9. Actuaciones de protección frente a avenidas en los Arroyos de Las Parras, Cornicabral y La Portiña; A.10. Sendas ecológicas y corredores verdes en los márgenes fluviales; A.11. Corredores verdes de uso social con circuitos biosaludables en la Isla Grande y la Isla de Los Molinos de Arriba y A.12. Actuaciones de mejora medioambiental en infraestructuras de comunicación existentes.

However, modern application deserve an innovative and critic approach not only by a technological evolution of acquisition tools, but also for the challenge posed to us detectors and most commonly to the theory of measurement. The new opportunities for describing and representing reality are most commonly redirected to the historical built and the landscape, referring to consequent orders of magnitude and restitution scales. The codification and formalization of surveying techniques for small objects with high precision and accuracy, also in the case of “image-camera” and “range-camera” tools. For this reason is presented the case study of the photogrammetric acquisition of an orphic gold tablet, particularly challenging in order to discuss two problems at the same time: the size and the reflective material (gold with which the object is made). The acquisition is carried out with two different instrumentations: using a native ‘macro’ photographic system, with dedicated photographic lens, in artificial light conditions obtained by developing a specific lighting technique (Ring Reflection Lighting - RRL) and using a ‘micro’ system through digital microscope with polarized light. The results are compared in order to generate weaving relationships between of this foil within the Visualizing Innovative and Social Artworks project of Calabria Region.

Affrontare la discussione di applicazioni consolidate di fotogrammetria non costituisce in sé un’attività necessariamente innovativa. Meritano, tuttavia, un costante approccio critico le originali implementazioni offerte non solamente dall’evoluzione tecnologica degli strumenti di acquisizione, ma anche dalle sfide poste a noi rilevatori e più in generale alla teoria delle misure. Le nuove opportunità di descrivere e rappresentare la realtà sono prevalentemente indirizzate al costruito storico e al paesaggio, con riferimento a ordini di grandezza e scale di restituzione conseguenti. Risulta, invece, ancora poco affrontata la codifica e la formalizzazione di pratiche di rilievo per oggetti di piccole dimensioni, con accuratezza e precisione necessariamente più elevate, anche nel caso di ricorso a strumentazioni “image-camera” piuttosto che range-camera. A tale proposito si presenta il caso studio relativo alla documentazione fotogrammetrica di una lamina orfica, particolarmente cogente al fine di affrontare due problematiche al contempo: quella dimensionale e quella delle superfici riflettenti (come l’oro, con cui l’oggetto è realizzato). L’acquisizione, pertanto, è stata condotta secondo due paradigmi: mediante un sistema originario “macro”, con ottiche fotografiche dedicate, in condizioni di luce artificiale ottenute sviluppando una specifica tecnica di illuminazione (la Ring Reflection Lighting-RRL), e attraverso un sistema ‘micro’, un microscopio digitale con luce polarizzata. I risultati delle sperimentazioni sono qui confrontati al fine di annodare le tessere di questa misterica laminetta nell’ambito del Progetto Visualizing Innovative and Social Artworks della Regione Calabria.

A National Monument since 1910, the Roman Ruins of Tróia were a large fish-salting production centre that became an urban agglomerate with houses, baths, cemeteries, a mausoleum and an early Christian basilica.
Un enhancement project began in 2007 leading to the installation of visiting pathways with interpretation panels opened to the public in February 2011.

The contribution is based on a recent survey conducted as part of a degree thesis on "The Central Baths of Kos", held at the Department DICAR the Polytechnic of Bari under the scientific direction of Prof. G. Rocco and Prof .M. Livadiotti. The proposed design of a “Museum of the Baths”, to be realized in an archaeological area, therefore, is founded on a thorough preliminary historical research, the result of more than twenty years of studies of these scholars in Dodecanese (Greece).
The Museum, in a central position near the ancient agora, occupies the space of five ancient insulae south of the thermal building, ensuring its readability and creating a multi-poles museum which could be potentially replicated in the surrounding areas.
The management of the space inside the Museum takes in account the geometric ratio of the typical Hellenistic block. The choice of a wooden construction system was dictated by several considerations especially in order to the possibility of the presence of not yet investigated ruins under the new building. It was chosen therefore a system that ensures the support to the ground without damaging any ancient structures below, considering how premise of the project was the reversibility. Besides, this architectural object offers the opportunity of a better protection of archaeological sites, ensuring its study and visit.
The museum fulfills the dual purpose of collecting and exposing the architectural fragments discovered. The project of teaching materials and exhibition routes tries to make clear the complex history of the building and functioning of thermal baths, displayed in all its phases in a chronological order. In addition, the arrangement of the exposition and every single support, panel and thematic path have been studied. The whole ensures a complete comprehension of the exposed material and of the archaeological site.

This paper presents the goals of the “Ager di Aquinum – conoscere
per tutelare” project, and the new project “Ager di Aquinum – una
forma di valorizzazione integrata”, with a focus on the entire cultural landscape that was once controlled by the ancient city, whose primary goal is that of increasing and disseminating knowledge of the archaeological heritage of the ancient colony.
The article also shows the GIS map of the database of archaeological fieldwork and research in southern Latium, and the results of excavations carried out at the site of Piedimonte San Germano - loc. Le Grange in 2012.

La necessità di rendere leggibile la realtà archeologica degli scavi delle Terme Vecciane di Aquinum ha portato alla realizzazione di un allestimento museale non tradizionale, ma basato sull’esperienza virtuale e sulla interazione diretta tra visitatore e reperto: Il progetto Metateca.

"This article presents, and then explores the iconographic analysis, geographical origin and dating of the hitherto fore unstudied figurine O10396 at the National Museum of Denmark. The exceptionally well-preserved figurine portrays the common West Mexican theme of a female in labor. The iconographic analysis demonstrates a close correspondence with the Nayarit style, in particular Lagunillas Type D intimately linked to the shaft tomb mortuary practice. Hence the southern Nayarit corresponding to this practice is suggested as its geographical origin. Resist decoration and C14 data gives an approximate dating of 300 B.C. – AD 300.

Este articulo presenta la figurina O10396 es las coleccciones del Museo Nacional de Dinamarca y luego explora un analisis iconografico, su origen y datacion. La bien preservada figurina representia una mujer en parto, un tema comun en el arte de Oeste de Mexico. La tipologia iconografica muestra que O10396 pertenece al estilo de Nayarit en particular Lagunillas tipo D. Este estilo tiene una intima relacion con la practica mortuoria de las tumbas de tiro lo cual nos permite proponer el sur de Nayarit como su origen geografico. La applicacion de colores de Resistencia y pruebas C14 da 300 a.C.-300 d.C. como su period de fabricacion."

The urban area and territory of Aquinum , roman city situated along the route of via Latina were investigated by means of aero-topographical studies, geophysical prospecting and archaeological field survey. The work has been organized according to the great archaeological potentialities and the promising perspectives of research offered by the site. Casale Pascale, a rural dwelling owned by the municipality of Castrocielo, was used to create a new “musealization”: an innovative zoom on the archaeological site,  based on augmented reality and of Kinect technology, in order to make intelligible to a wider audience as possible the structural evidence and the significant materials from the excavation.