Lives among the ruins
A focus on the men and women who have made the history of archaeology. Excavators, classifiers, art historians… each of them has advanced the study of the past, modifying its approach and always adding something new. They range from Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the father of archaeology understood as the history of ancient art, to Augustus Pitt Rivers, a great excavator in England during the nineteenth century; from illustrious scholars of prehistory, such as Mary Leakey and Dorothy Garrod, to Lewis Binford and Ian Hodder, who have animated one of the most heated disputes on the methods and potential of archaeology as a historical science. And then there are some Italians, often overlooked in summaries of the history of the discipline: such as Giuseppe Fiorelli, the man who literally invented the way of making casts of the inhabitants of Pompeii; and Rodolfo Lanciani, a great and attentive scholar of Rome and the Roman countryside. And then, many other protagonists: men and women who have left an indelible mark on the field of archaeology, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. In addition, at the end of each episode, some short interviews with archaeologists who are currently engaged in field research, to give the public all the taste of archaeology as it is thought and done today. “Vite tra le rovina – I grandi personaggi dell’archeologia” is a program by Andrea Augenti, edited by Monica D’Onofrio. Direction and musical choices by Valerio Giannetti.
In onda
Saturdays at 10.45am, from 29 June to 14 September 2024
