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Problemi relativi alla standardizzazione in un ambito di produzione protostorico: uno studio di caso dalle necropoli paleovenete del Piovego e di Padova città
No full textPresenza di materiale pomiceo dell'eruzione vesuviana di Avellino nella ceramica del bronzo di Coppa Nevigata (FG)
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Simmetria dei vasi come record archeologico
No full textQuanto sono diversi tra loro i profili di un singolo vaso? Come scegliere e come misurare un profilo che si possa definire standard? Nella fucina del Laboratorio del Piovego è nato un progetto sperimentale che ha affrontato questo tema misurando più profili degli stessi vasi. Decine di trattamenti statistici indicano cosa misurare e come trattare i dati per fare scelte consapevoli di disegno e di classificazione. È nostro piacere presentare come omaggio a Giovanni questo guizzo oltre i limiti delle usuali osservazioni, da lui fortemente ispirato.How much are they different from each other the profiles of a single vessel?
How to choose and how to measure a profile which can be defined as standard? In the forge of the Laboratory of Piovego an experimental project was born that has addressed this issue by measuring multiple profiles of the same vessels. Dozens of statistical treatments show what to measure and how to treat the data to make informed choices of drawing and classification. It is our pleasure to present, as a tribute to Giovanni, this wriggle beyond the limits of the usual observations, strongly inspired by him
Italo-Mycenaean and other Aegean-influenced pottery in Late Bronze Age Italy: the case for regional production
No full textDecorated Italo-Mycenaean (IM) pottery, a high-status class found and made over three centuries from the Italian Late Middle Bronze Age onwards, was the subject of a large archaeological and archaeometric enquiry published by the present authors in 2014. The present paper focuses on identifying IM’s centres of production. The results of chemical analysis of IM using mainly ICP-ES make a strong case for regional production, irrespective of findspots in several parts of Italy. This accords well with the relative stylistic individuality of IM observed among the finds of IM across many parts of Italy, suggesting that IM is a powerful archaeological indicator of the way local communities were constructing and negotiating their identities at this crucial time of social and economic change at the end of the Bronze Age. A picture of more dispersed intra-regional production emerges from the combined chemical and petrographic analysis of two other pottery classes displaying Aegean influence: wheel-made Grey ware and decorated Final Bronze Age/Early Iron Age (FBA/EIA) pottery from sites in present-day Apulia and from Broglio di Trebisacce in Calabria. Potters manufacturing the former applied their knowledge of the wheel and kiln firing to handmade impasto shapes which were largely shared by local communities within a region. The results obtained for the latter reflect demands of the new elites of the emerging FBA/EIA in southern Italy to create symbols expressing a new cultural identity: this pottery’s style, especially of Protogeometric, was uniform but its production was localised
PROTOHISTORIC ITALIAN CERAMICS: TOWARDS A GENERAL FABRICS CLASSIFICATION AND INTERPRETATION
No full textThis is the first synthetic and comparative presentation of the petrographic classification of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age pottery as result of the interdisciplinary project Wikipottery per-formed by our team over the last 30 years. We analyzed collections from the Central Mediterranean and designed a specific database to store, standardize, classify and share the data. We show here the results from 88 archaeological sites and 1654 samples classified into 169 fabrics: technological compositions that identify the petrographic signatures of individual production centres/workshops/ individuals. These rigorous compositional formulae are conceptually on the same level as the mor-phological types defined by quantitative approaches. We present this general experiment and discuss the relevance of ceramic technological/compositional data for the reconstruction of environment, circulation, cultural identity, complexity and innovation in ancient societies
Results of integrated magnetic and GPR surveys in the St. Vincenzo archaeological site (Stromboli Island, Italy)
No full textIdentification of buried cultural heritage in geophysical records is
hampered by the often irregular geometry and by the limited
target/background contrast. Data integration offers a viable solution in favorable cases and in particular for areal mapping of buried foundations or building remains through the integration of magnetic and GPR surveys.
Irregular and isolated targets, lacking lateral continuity and identifiable geome t r i c p a t t e r n , a r e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c o f pre- and proto- historic sites and require complementary strategies to achieve optimum interpretation results. We propose and test a combined 2.5/3-D GPR survey strategy based on single-fold and mul t i - fold data, integrated by magnetic
(gradiometric) surveys. GPR data analysis is based on standard
section/volume interpretation complemented by multi-attribute and wavelet analysis for the identification of targets of potential
archeological interest. The method is tested on a dataset from the St. Vincenzo protohistoric site (Stromboli Island, Italy). The results give evidence of many often superimposed buried remains and allow detailed pre-excavation planning. Geophysical outcomes are validated by the archaeological excavation that identified remains of a Middle-Bronze Age (1650-1400 B.C.) village and most recent structures and objects
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