True to its ongoing activity, on Thursday, February 12, the Archaeology Club of the University of Navarra held its fourth session with a luxury speaker : Pablo Ozcáriz, Senior Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University Rey Juan Carlos de la Frontera. Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, former student of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra and member of CEIPACthe group for the Study of Provincial Interdependence in Classical Antiquity, which is coordinated by the University of Barcelona. 

During the coffee-talk, Prof. Ozcáriz discussed, with abundant graphic and archaeological apparatus, the exciting adventure of excavating the Mount Testaccio in Rome, an artificial hill located in the Roman district of the same name, which was formed as result from the accumulation of the remains of oil amphorae, mostly from Roman Baetica, after centuries of intense Mediterranean trade by this great power of Antiquity.

Ozcáriz also stressed how the Roman state controlled the entire production process from the manufacture of the amphorae - the popular "Dressel 20" - to its filling with oil, its trade and its arrival in Rome, and that this information, which the Romans marked on the amphorae in the form of inscriptions and various graffiti, provides abundant information on Rome's fiscal and economic system.

The next session of the Archaeology Club will take place on Thursday, February 26. It will consist of a seminar-workshop on cataloging Roman coins. On Thursday, March 5, internship opportunities will be presented at subject of Archaeology, offered by School of Philosophy and Letters.