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Domenico Faccenna and the development of archaeological study in Swat. Methodology, fieldwork and bibliography.
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Painted Shelters from Swat (Pakistan) and Surrounding Areas. Recent Discovery in the frame of the AMSV Project
No full textLe attività di formazione, scavo e restauro della Missione Italiana nello Swat (2011-2016)
No full textThe history of the Italian archaeological school in Swat began in 1955 with
Giuseppe Tucci, who inaugurated a tradition that survives to this today. The mission
that he founded has had an uninterrupted presence albeit with a hiatus between 2007
and 2010 when a self-declared Taliban emirate was established in Swat, and has assumed
a prominent role in Indo-Pakistani archaeology. Since its beginnings, the Italian
mission has obtained excellent results in the excavation and preservation of the Buddhist
shrines of Butkara 1, Panr 1, and Saidu Sharif 1 under the direction of Domenico
faccenna. many sites of different eras have been investigated by prominent figures as
Giorgio Gullini, Giorgio Stacul, maurizio Taddei, Umberto Scerrato, and Pierfrancesco
callieri.
from 2011 to 2016, the mission, which is now under the patronage of ISmEO
and directed by the author of this contribution, led the joint Italian-Pakistani project
“Archaeology, community, Tourism-field school” (AcT), funded by the Pakistani-
Italian Debt Swap Agreement (PIDSA). AcT project included research, restoration and
teaching activities aimed at promoting archaeological tourism, aiding the economic
growth of the region involving the local community in the study and preservation Swati
heritage.
The core of this project is the new Swat museum, that is the result of the cooperation
between Italian and Pakistani experts, and was inaugurated in November 2013.
The older local museum, built under the initiative of Giuseppe Tucci in 1963, was
severely damaged by an explosion in 2008; its surviving parts were restored and incorporated
into new construction.
The sixty-year presence of the Italian mission, the responsibility of extensive archaeological
areas on behalf of the Pakistani government and the continuity of the local
working relationships on a generational scale has made this program unique in its field
and has offered the conceptual basis of the AcT and archaeological site management.
Archaeology was initially only an earning opportunity for many, but through active
participation has created a growing sense of belonging and shared responsibility. Such an awareness is fundamental for the protection and restoration of the sites; for which
end the field school organized by our project provided the methodological base.
In addition to its social-economic value, the AcT project pursues scientific aims
of utmost relevance for Indo-Pakistani archaeology. fieldwork has provided a new, indepth
interpretation of Proto-historic cemeteries, and the mission has promoted excavation
and restoration programs at Buddhist sites, such as Saidu Sharif, Jahanabad,
Amluk-dara, and Gumbat. moreover, excavation activities, directed by the author of
this contribution, have been being carried out at Barikot, where evidence of the early
city (6th century Bc), with subsequent Achaemenid, mauryan, and Indo-Greek phases,were brought to light
Digging Up Fieldwork guidelines for archaeology students 2nd Revised Edition
Full text linkWhile most field manuals begin with abstract theoretical propositions,
to move tackling with pratical issues (such as the organization
of the archaeological yard) as these latter were secondary,
menial aspects, the approach of Luca M. Olivieri goes the other
way round. Following the first pages of this book, students will
learn to appreciate the advantages of a straight, rational organization
of the trench, including issues that are regularly neglected
in other books of the same type – like the composition of the excavating
teams, the location and maintenance of the excavation
dirt, the control of the water running on surface and across the
exposed ruins. A clear historical understanding – the Author
seems to suggest – depends also upon a neat setting, since the first
steps, of an archaeologist’s experimental workbench.
Another crucial aspect of this text is its practical vision. While
condemning without any ambiguity the criminal destruction of
Swat’s archaeological heritage by illegal diggers, as the careless
planning of agricultural works and modern construction across
important archaeological sites, Olivieri is aware of the fact that
the recent impact - even in form of exposed sections – sometimes
may be utilized as possible windows to the past. It is a generous
effort to create order and information even from what, too often,
is turning into a depressing chaos.
The Author leads student to a proper planning of surface surveys
(in the peculiar situation of mountain slopes), to an exhaustive planning of the dig, considering also legal frameworks and budgeting,
the inventorying of the finds, to restoration and site maintenance.
Readers are invited to view the contents of this book as an evolution,
but also as an important change, of the methods and the theoretical
background of Mortimer’s Wheeler’s fieldschool. This
change involves a shift from a strongly hierarchical management
of the yard to participation and shared discussion, but also to a
more detailed documentation of stratigraphy and, as a consequence,
to more critical historical interpretations; from stratigraphic
limits conceived as lines that separate “historical periods” to tools for reconstructing the formation processes of
the site. (from the Foreword, by G. Leonardi
RECENSIONE A: The Buddhist Architecture of Gandhāra, Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section Two by K.A. Behrendt
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THE LAST PHASES OF THE URBAN SITE OF BIR-KOT-GHWANDAI (BARIKOT) THE BUDDHIST SITES OF GUMBAT AND AMLUK-DARA (BARIKOT)
No full textUrban Defenses at Bir-kot-ghwandai, Swat (Pakistan) New Data from the 2014 Excavation Campaign
No full textThis article reports on the latest data provided by the 2014 excavation campaign at the
Early Historic urban site of Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai, Swat. The campaign, which followed
an intensive 3-year excavation carried out inside the SW quarter of the ancient town,
focused on the SW external area, and revealed a complex sequence of constructions,
collapses and abandonment of the external defenses of the site. The new data are compared
with others from previous excavation campaigns in the same site
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