Conferences and Workshops

Conferences and workshops on specific topics are typically organized in collaboration with Japanese and European universities or research institutes. The École Française d’Extrême-Orient and the Institute for Research in Humanities are the preferred partners for these conferences, but the collaboration in this field is not exclusive. For over thirty years, the School has been a presence in the international scientific community among foreign research centers in Japan, providing a venue to present ongoing research findings.
Science and Archaeology in Italy and Japan

Conferences and Workshops

Science and Archaeology in Italy and Japan

A Transdisciplinary Methodology

May 9-10, 2023 16:00 – 18:00 JST

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Concept

Modern archaeology has been developed almost simultaneously in Japan and Italy, with the first excavation of a mound tomb in Japan, the Samuraizuka kofun (侍塚古墳) in 1692, ordered by Tokugawa Mitsukuni, and  with Ercolano and Pompei excavations in 1748. This research field has been intensely promoted by national governments and academic institutions, and at present employs techniques and approaches from the physical, chemical, biological, and earth sciences as well as engineering (covered by the interdisciplinary field of archaeometry) to address archaeological issues. Archaeometry provides archaeology instruments for collecting, analyzing and interpreting data related to material records of human history, with a reciprocal cross-fertilization of methodologies and interpretative tools that make archaeology and archaeometry truly transdisciplinary. In the workshop the history of archaeology and the archaeological methodology will address the employ of archaeometry in a comparative view of the field in Italy and Japan.