Team Takes Different Paths to Two Major Archeological Finds
A Bass Connections project team spent the summer at two historic sites in Italy and made significant discoveries. The team, based in part in the dig@lab, a digital laboratory run by Maurizio Forte, discovered two Roman Empire-era facilities, a public building and an amphitheater.
In Vulci, this summer’s discovery came the old-fashioned way – through excavation. At Reggio Emilia, the “A-Ha” moment came courtesy of newer technology, as drones took overhead images examined using ground-penetrating radar to spot layers of hidden civilizations beneath the surface.
Our drone was able to collect more than 12,000 aerial photos of the archaeological park, which let us recontextualize the site with its archaeological landscape. —Maurizio Forte
Read the full article, High-Tech Tools Yield Roman Discovery, by Eric Ferreri in DukeToday.
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