Between July 17 and August 1, 2022, in Sultana (Călărași County), the 5th event of the ArchaeoSciences Summer Schools series, entitled “Airborne Laser Scanning & Multispectral Mapping in Archaeology”, will take place.

This event is organized by the ArchaeoSciences Platform of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB) along with HoGent, University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Belgium), within the interdisciplinary archaeological research project “The dynamics of the prehistoric communities located in the Mostiștea and Danube valleys”, in partnership with Christian-Albrechts- Universität zu Kiel – CAU (Germany), Museum of Bucharest, Museum of the Lower Danube Călărași and Museum of Gumelnița Civilization Oltenița (Romania), under the “Sultana School of Archaeology” initiative.

This year’s summer school aims to introduce the Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) and Multispectral Mapping (MM) techniques used for archaeological sites from our ongoing project. During the 2022 summer campaign, some Neolithic tell settlements and cemeteries (Chiselet, Gumelnita, Măriuța, Sultana-Malu Roșu, and Sultana-Valea Orbului) and the proximity areas were investigated. At this Summer School, students from University of Bucharest (Romania), Christian-Albrechts- Universität zu Kiel (Germany), Leiden University (Netherlands), University of York (UK), HoGent (Belgium), and University of South Florida (USA) have participated. All data collected and processed were available online, open access, on the HoGent website: https://geo.hogent.be/sultana/

The ArchaeoSciences Summer Schools series is a recent initiative dedicated to students, masters and doctoral students in order to conduct introductory courses related to current trends in interdisciplinary research of the past in terms of methods specific to the field of ArchaeoSciences.