Master Degree: Archaeological Sciences
Curriculum: Applied sciences to cultural heritage materials and sites
 Course Type: Second Cycle degree |
 Location: Università di Padova |
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 Italian Class of Degree: LM-2 - Archaeology |
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 Language: English |
 Duration: 2 years |
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2 November 2024 - 2 February 2025 |
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Join our Open Weeks! Professors will present the degree programme along with international students. We will also discuss everything there is to know about applying, scholarships, fees, and student services. NEXT OPEN WEEK: 18 NOVEMBER 2024 h.13:00 (Italian time) |
Survival guide for foreign students, prepared by the International Desks |
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The Master’s degree acknowledges the recent scientific advances in the investigation of cultural heritage materials at different scales, from the site/landscape survey to diagnostics at the molecular and atomic levels, and the interpretation of derived
information. Based on truly interdisciplinary collaborations, the programme offers the theoretical background and the necessary practical knowledge towards the application of scientific methods to archaeological and cultural heritage materials.
The course wishes to emphasise the role of materials in human history and prehistory, showing how innovative and state-of-the-art archaeometric techniques and methods may efficiently extract tangible and intangible information from cultural heritage materials. Furthermore the obtained scientific information must be interpreted in the context of the physical chemistry properties of the material itself, the production process, the socio-economic framework, the conservation process, and finally properly inserted into the historical / social / anthropological / artistic timeline. The cultural heritage materials must be understood as having a past, a present, and a future life, always connected with the ever shifting values of human cultures.
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