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Thursday 20th - Friday 21st, January 2022
“Timing cultural changes in the Southern Caucasus: where do we stand with absolute chronology from Late Chalcolithic to the Iron Age?”
Ca' Foscari (Aula Baratto), Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice (Italy)

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In Italy, within the “Venetonight. European Researchers’ Night” programme for the 2019 edition we organised the following workshop for school-age children at Ca’ Foscari: “Kura-Araxes Fashion Night”.
How did the inhabitants of the South Caucasus dress in the third millennium BC? Can archaeologists reconstruct the fashion of these ancient peoples?Together we made ancient ornaments to dress us upaccording to the fashion of five thousand years ago.Before going home, we had more fun taking some pictures of us with a polaroid camera.The children experimented the repoussé technique,and created pretty jewels in Kura Araxes style and discovered how they were worn.

"The eyes of history":  a cartoon about the Italian archaeological missions in Georgia. Supported by the Italian Embassy in Georgia and the Italian Ministery of Foreign Affairs, the cartoon created by Mirko Furlanetto and Laura De Stefani was produced by a Georgian Studio (Voxel) in Tbilisi.
Read the news “Un cartone animato racconta l'archeologia in Georgia” [ITA] on cfNEWS.

At the University of Trieste, Gorizia Campus
Conference programme [ITA]

In Italy, within the “Venetonight. European Researchers’ Night” programme for the 2017 edition we organised the following workshop for school-age children at Ca’ Foscari: “Little warriors with long swords".
A long time ago (in the second millennium B.C.) brave and bold warriors lived in lands far away (from the Caucasus mountains to the shores of the Aegean Sea). They had as a faithful companion: a long bronze sword, a symbol of value and nobility.These particular weapons have been found by archaeologists in tombs rich in all sorts of precious treasures.Together we rediscovered this fascinating story and we built a sword to feel valiant warriors for a day.

At Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, Malcanton Marcorà
Seminar by Dr. Massimo Cultraro - CNR

In Italy, within the “Venetonight. European Researchers’ Night” programme for the 2016 edition we organised the following workshop for school-age children at Ca’ Foscari: “The Archaeological Game of the Goose”.
To learn by playing how life of the archaeologists unfolds, the tools used and learn about the finds recovered by the Georgian-Italian ShidaKhartli Archaeological Project in Georgia. There are of course also the unexpected boxes that make you lose turns and go back on the board.

The team of the "Georgian-Italian Shida Kartli archaeological project" together with the "Ikarus" Cultural Association of Pordenone and the Georgians ONG "ისტორიკოსთა კლუბი/History Club" and "ახალგაზრდა არქეოლოგთა საზოგადოება/ Society of Young Archaeologists" of Tbilisi is carrying out, both in Italy and in Georgia, a didactical project aimed at school kids. The purpose of the project is twofold: to make Italian school children acquainted with Georgian history, and to introduce their Georgian peers to the work that the Italian archaeological expedition in carrying out since 2009 in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia.
In 2016, thanks to the support of the Italian Embassy in Tbilisi, we printed the Georgian version of the comic strip “Jack e Matrix: i due occhi”, ispired to the Georgian-Italian excavations at Kashuri Natsargora (2011-2012), produced by  Ikarus  association (Mirko Furlanetto and Teresa Pitton) and the Accademia del Fumetto of Trieste (Laura De Stefani), which uses this new medium for promoting and disseminating the results obtained by the expedition during the last few years. In July 2016, the comic strip was distributed to the participants on the occasion of a visit to the excavations by a class of the Italian School in Tbilisi.

International workshop
At Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, Malcanton Marcorà (Sala Geymonat)

At the University of Bergamo, Piazza S. Agostino 1, Sala Conferenze
Organised by the Department of Humanities of the University of Bergamo and ASIAC Association