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On our first archaeology meeting, the expert divided the class in five small groups formed by three or four people. To Each group has been assigned a sculptural work. The goal of each team is to analyze each particular detail and transform what the eyes see into words.

We have been given a few articles to look into as well as the image regarding our sculpture. It’s important to always have the image next to us in order to catch every important detail. To make sure we write a complete and precise article, we must follow 8 points instructed to us by the expert:

-analyze the context

-description

-who is the subject

-chronology

-technique

-comparison with other sculptures

-interpretation

-social archaeology

The group must work together, sharing ideas, opinions, criticism and respect the deadline.

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The fifth of Febraury we Went to the head office of our school “Niccolò Machiavelli”. This is a Pon project (to communicate with the Archaeology) There was a guy that study archaeology. He taught to us a lot of things, for example what is archaeology, why we can say that archeology is a science, what is a dig ecc. so we learned a lot of things. Then we are separated in five groups and every group had to work on a sculpture. My group and I worked on Hellenistic Prince, that is a statue in bronze. This was very interesting and I think is better study a different subject in others ways. Like this the students can learn better.

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5th February 2018 my class and I started a journey on archeology to discover a new world. Archeology is a science of antiquity whose goal is the reconstruction of ancient civilizations through the excavation and the study of the various monumental documentation, of the vases in the circle of ceramics, of jewels, of the tombs. the archaeologist to find all these data must dig into the earth but to do it destroys something very important: the city.

It destroys the present and our future to know the past because metro, roads and inhabited areas are destroyed.

Digging even more in detail we talked about Classical Archeology which refers to the archaeological studies of the great Mediterranean civilizations of both ancient Greece and ancient Rome.

the  archaeologist Paolo, who will guide us throughout the trip, advised us to work with some very important and famous statues all over the world like Antinoo, the Discobolus, the resting boxer, the squatting Aphrodite and the Hellenistic Prince

It is an amazing experience that serves to enrich our baggage, both cultural and interior

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Archeology isn't only our past through the sculpture but also across the objects of the past life.

The archeologists destroy for rebuilt the past, so the questions: "why they do this ?"

Well, in a world where all is obvious it's very important to know why beacause we do certain things.

We can know the ansewer to all that questions that say "how we get there" and "why we are here", for a better knowledge on our past that is very important for not redo the same mistakes.

So many times is better destroy a part of our present for restore a part of our past, all this for built a better a future

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This year's PON project is called "Global citizenship and cultural heritage " and it is based on archaeology. So far, we've learnt some key concepts such as the meaning of archaeology (the study of ancient civilizations), the job of an archaeologist (ti interpret informations), why archaeologists destroy to discover (because archaeological finds are under the ground most of the times), etc.

We've also learnt the meaning of classical archaeology (the study of the Mediterranean civilizations like Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) and we've analysed some sculptures, in particular the Boxer at Rest, which represents a bronze boxer resting. The statue was excavated in the Quirinale in 1885 and is now part of the collection in the palazzo Massimo.

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In the first meeting with the archaeologist my class and I we have learned some of the best things which represent the figure of an archaeologist.

Paolo, our “teacher” for the project ASL PON, told us that archaeology means dealing with the past civilizations and cultures through material manifestation and it’s considerate a science, even if a lot of people see that this is false, because it’s a study: behind a discovery there are steps that you can’t jump. Did job of an archaeologist is a group job. An important point is that an archaeologist destroy to rebuild. We have also see the different types of excavations like the trench ones.

This, in my opinion, could be a great experience we can learn more about our culture and we can learn to appreciate it

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Two week ago on 5 of february me and my  school mates started an ASL’project for introduce us to work with the help of an expert of archeology.we have already visited two museum: palazzo massimo and centrale montemartini,archeology is a science that study ancient population with written and oral sources.the work of an archaeologist consist also in done excavation for discover finds that can help us to know more about the past.I think that this experiences was really fun and interesting,because can let us know more about our fantastic city.finally our teatro her divide us in 5 groups and each group have to analize a work and write a text.

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This year my class  is partecipating in an interesting ASL's project concerning archeology.

We have already done 2 workshops and we have visited 2 beautiful museums like Palazzo Massimo and Centrale Montenartini.

We have learned that archeology can be considerated a science and that it studies ancient civilizcivilizations through written,oral sources.

We have also see the different types of excavations like the trench excavations.

Finally they divises us in five group and to each group must analize a famous work and write an article about it.

This experncies is really friendly and cool

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This year we started the path alternating school work that consists in bringing the student closer to the world of work. Our project is based on archaeological discoveries and on February 5th we had our first meeting. We met an expert archaeologist who explained to us what archeology is, it consists in the study of the earth’ finds through written sources, finds like vases and funeral objects. It serves to understand developments and to know the past. Archeology uses repeatable methods: the strategies. For example, digging for squares, trenching and digging for large areas. After having explained all these things we were divided into teams in which everyone had a statue to analyze. The statue of my team was "the boxer at rest", found on the Quirinale in 1885. It comes from a public or private residence or from the Baths of Constantine. It was made by Lisippo in bronze and the wounds where made of red copper.

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On 5 February 2019 we had our first meeting with the project with the alternation school work. This project is entirely dedicated to archeology and thanks to the external expert Paolo we could better understand what archeology means and consequently the work of the archaeologist. in fact archeology means the scientific study of ancient civilizations through the traces that leave the respective cultures (specs of monuments and artistic products). The responsibility of the archaeologist is to bring these findings back to light and restore them to the historical context. Finally, we had to work on the Discobolo by Mirone or disc thrower, which we could see live during the visit at Palazzo Massimo.

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On the 5th of March me and my team, which is called Albata, we must bring a text on a sculpture that has been assigned to us, it is the Pugile at rest, it is a sculpture that has as subject an athlete who stops after a fight to rest. I believe that me and my group composed by Martina, Georgiana and Chiara will one day see each other and using the material that has been given to us, that is photocopies and the photo of the sculpture, and ours that is all the notes taken during the lesson, from other books and to museums we will create a text that explains and describes the statue with all its characteristics.

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What is archaeology?

Archaeology is the study of human activities through the recovery and analysis of certain materials.

What do archaeologists do?

They study human prehistory and history. Keep in mind that archaeology is different from palaeontology, the study of fossils.

How do they do that?

They do that thanks to stratigraphic excavations, which consist in removing layers of the ground respecting their chronology, withdrawing the elements that  they contain, which are then ordered accordingly.

What are some examples?

An example of a piece that was rediscovered by archaeologists is the Discobolus Lancellotti, a copy of the original bronze statue created by Greek sculptor Myron. It dates back to the fifth century B.C. and, as of today, we have several Roman copies.