042: Total Station, AutoCAD & Archaeological Techniques of drawing, photography and digital illustration.

What you will learn ?

In the Fieldwork

• Collect field mapping data with a Total Station using coordinates to process maps.
  
  
• Use and handling of a Total Station.
  
  
• Recording data obtained during the survey.
  
  
• Draw planimetry diagrams of the excavation to draw maps using AutoCAD during the laboratory work.
  
  
  

In the laboratory

• Handle and learn AutoCAD software with coordinates from objects and structures.
  
  
• Learn how to draw ceramic according with the standards (piece orientation, diameter edge estimation, representation of the decoration and several views generation).
  
  
• Objects drawing exercises (glass, lithics, coins, bone needles).
  
  
• Correct handle of the graphic representation and learning of different scales 1:1, 2:1…
  
  
• General standards of composition and illumination in photography.
  
  
• Photography techniques used on little objects like coins, jewels and ceramics  with decoration and epigraphy.
  
  
• Drawing and photographing with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
  
  
• Drawing and vector handling of the archaeological material with Adobe Illustrator.
  
  
  
  

Theory

• History, archaeology, economy and culture of the Roman civilization.
  
  
• Introduction to the History of the Sanisera Site.
  
  
• Minorcan archaeology before the Roman conquest of the Balearic Islands.