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Libarna Urban Landscapes Project
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Archaeological research project and field school at the Roman colony of Libarna in the Piemonte region of Italy.
The trenches are all but closed and the students have headed home. Just some post ex work to be done.
July 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
And of course our excellent staff who kept everything going and helped our students learn about all the various facets of archaeology.
July 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It was the last day in the trenches for our 2025 season. Our students from @boisestate.bsky.social and @utah.edu were amazing!!
July 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Our team gave a small conference covering our first 2 years of excavation last night in Serravalle Scrivia. A nice little piece on it in today’s La Stampa.
July 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
@dr-fishbones.bsky.social walks our students through an assemblage of young pig bones from last year’s excavations.
July 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Students washed some bone this morning while we opened trenches. Everyone was on site in the afternoon to clean trenches and put up safety fences.

#LULP #Libarna #archaeology #RomanArchaeology @boisestate.bsky.social @uofuhumanities.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Yesterday our students got an overview of excavations at #Libarna from our Director Katie Huntley, and our trench supervisors Alexis Mosley and Richard Chadwick before laying out this year’s trenches.
June 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Talking trenches! Picking the placement for this year's trenches using data from our last two dig seasons to help us fill in more of the story of ancient #Libarna
#archaeology #fieldschool #romanarchaeology
June 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
For #MosaicMonday - Lycurgus and Ambrosia from Silvana Finocchi’s excavations of the houses near Libarna’s amphitheater.
📸: Silvana Finocchi (a cura di), 1996, Libarna, Maxmi Editore, Castelnuovo Scrivia.
June 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
And just like that our trenches are closed. A few more days of post-ex work and our second season will end. #archaeology
July 18, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Our amazing 2024 crew!! Students from @boisestateuniversity & @uofutah have done a brilliant job this season with their amazing trench supervisors Richard Chadwick and Alexis Mosley.
July 12, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Our Associate Director Alexis Christensen really loves tile! And this is a good year for tile!! #LULP #Archaeology #UofU #BoiseState
July 4, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Since it’s #AncientSiteSunday here’s a nice view of Libarna, a Roman colony established ca. 148 BCE when the Via Postumia was built to connect Genoa to Aquileia across the Po Valley. Read more: the-past.com/feature/liba... 📸 M Boyles
June 30, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Field trip to the antiquities collection in the Musei Reali in Torino today. Our pottery expert Melania Semeraro gave our @boisestate.bsky.social and U of Utah student an excellent tour.
June 29, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Another good day in the trenches. Our @UUtah and @BoiseState students finished cleaning trenches and learned how to draw a trench plan. #Archaeology #LULP 🏺
June 27, 2024 at 6:20 PM
We have blue skies and flowers at Libarna!! An excellent first day in the trenches.
June 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Finally made it into the field to bail the trenches and lay out the grids.
June 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Starting our second rainy morning with a talk by our Director, Prof. Huntley, on Libarna and it’s place in ancient Italy/Liguria. #LULP #archaeology
June 25, 2024 at 8:01 AM
When it’s chilly and the rain is filling up your trenches you make a run to the local designer outlet mall to get some sweatshirts and rain gear. #ArchaeologyLife #LULP #SerravalleScrivia #McAurthurGlenOutlet #BiggestDesignerOutletMallInEurope
June 25, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Field trip to Libarna Archaeological Park on a rainy Sunday.
June 23, 2024 at 1:04 PM
The shoes have multiplied. Our students are here!!
June 23, 2024 at 9:20 AM
It’s starting!!!🎉
June 22, 2024 at 4:36 PM