STRATEGIE DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE DI UNO SCAVO ARCHEOLOGICO

The development of a scientific methodology for two-dimensional drawings of an archaeological excavation can support the work of archaeologists. This paper shows the first results obtained from research carried out as part of a collaboration agreement between the DICAr (Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia) – specifically by the reserch laboratories DAda-LAB and PLAY – and the enterprise GEA s.r.l. Archaeology, for the documentation of the emergency archaeological excavations started in March 2022 in the Ex Istituto Santa Margherita in Pavia. The aim is to provide guidelines for the graphic restitution of different moments of survey that have involved, and continue to involve, different areas of the entire archaeological site. In this perspective, the archaeological drawing becomes a critical tool that, based on the elaboration of data obtained from modern survey instruments, must be able to develop detailed and easily comprehensible representations. The graphic documentation of the excavation for each moment of acquisition, is a solid base on which archaeologists can make any subsequent historical-archaeological considerations, and offers the possibility of preserving the memory of a site that will be partially destroyed and no longer visible.