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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

archaeological sites, Maseria de Carolis, MDC, Mt. Vesuvius

College

Humanities

Department

Comparative Arts and Letters

Abstract

The original purpose of my research was to develop a conservation plan for Maseria de Carolis (MDC), an archaeological site on the north slope of Mt. Vesuvius, Italy. Professional conservation of archaeological sites is a relatively new area of study. While conservation principles were first discussed in the 19th century, it was not until the 20th and 21st centuries that real steps were taken in developing principles for the conservation of structures, and conservation of structures became its own official sub-group of conservation, determined by the American Institute of Conservation (Matero 1993, 1). Because this sub-group is so new, codes and principles of conservation are still being developed and there is some ambiguity about what is ethically appropriate for conservation of structures at archaeological sites. This being the case, the purpose of my research was to discover why the relationship between archaeology and conservation is so important, and how these two disciplines can work together to optimize the amount of information a site yields. I used MDC as a case study for this research.

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