Work-planning

  • Dates: 8 – 27 july 2013
  • Exhaustive excavation of the balks not excavated during the 1979-1980 interventions.
  • Photogrammetric drawing of the site by vertical aerial photography (aerostatical balloon and differential GPS.
  • Diagnostic and architectural study of the ruins degradations since the last consolidation intervention. Elevation and plan.
  • A visibility model from the site in function of the digital elevation model (DEM) improvement of the one offered in figure 6.
  • Thematic survey in the field of 230 ha around the site and preparation of a LIDAR project (Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging) in order to identify the micro-relieves and underwood’s sites around Can Blai. In this site, one can find sites in direct relationship with Can Blai, occupied during the same period. According to the population rate (González Villaescusa, Díes 1993), Can Blai is located 450 m away from the site Es Carnatge (nº 78). This site was occupied since the island Punic colonization till the VII century AD without interruption. Can Barber (nº 75), about 1 km south-east of Can Blai, appears in the late Punic phase and last till III century. At least the necropolis directly tied to Can Blai, is located at about 300 m from the site, on the other side of the Mola old way (Gordillo Courcières 1981).
  • In order to integrate the prospection around Can Blai, we plan to create a data-base SIG, with the data from old land surveys conducted by MAEF (Museu Arqueològic d’Eivissa i Formentera). We participed in these surveys and have written an article on the occupation of the ground in the Formentera island (González Villaescusa, Dies, 1993). This data-base will be transferred to the Consell Insular de Formentera for the heritage gestion. It will be useful for the preparation of a research project on standarization of archaeological data surveys of Balearic Islands. We will base our project on the work done by two members of our laboratory (whom one participate to this project, G. Davtian) for the proect PaleoSyr: Paléoenvironnements et occupation du sol en Syrie occidentale durant l’Holocène[[<1> http://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique175]].