The selection of the archaeological site; preliminary operations;the scientific, technical and operational personel; the archaeological base; materials and instruments; the excavation, techniques and methods; the artefacts; grafic and photografic mapping of the archaeological site; the excavation's documents (plans, photo-archive,maps, the excavation's journal, inventories, registration...); underwater archaeology (shipwrecks, submerged sites, the underwater sanctuaries, the non-ritual underwater deposits); the underwater excavations (techniques and methods, scientific and technical personel, the research ships, mapping an underwater archaeological site, the underwater photography, the preservation, transport, conservation and restauration of the underwater archaeological sites and artefacts); methods and techniques of archaeological prospection; dating the archaeological artefacts; the study of archalogical materials by phisico-chemical analysis; the computer and modern archaeology; salvation, preservation, conservation, restauration, reconstruction of ancient archaeological sites and artefacts; moving monuments; experimental archaeology.
