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Rots V. (2010) – Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools. A Methodology, Leuven, Leuven University Press
No full textLemorini C. Rots V. (2010) – Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools. A Methodology, Leuven, Leuven University Press. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 108, n°3, 2011. p. 583
Reconnaitre des tactiques d'exploitation du milieu au Paleolithique Moyen. La contribution de !'analyse fonctionnelle. Etude fonctionnelle des industries lithiques de Grotta Breuil (Latium, Italie) et de La Combette (Bonnieux, Vaucluse, France)
No full textLa monografia offre un ampio lavoro di discussione delle capacità cognitive dei Neanderthal europei partendo dalla elaborazione di dati provenienti dall'analisi delle tracce d'uso di due siti chiave: Grotta Breuil (Italia) e La Combette (Francia)
Traceological analyses applied to textile implements. An assessment of the method through the case study of the 1st millennium BCE ceramic tools in Central Italy
No full textLo studio delle attività di tessitura in archeologia si basa sull’analisi di resti di tessuti, fonti iconografiche e manufatti utilizzati durante i processi di trasformazione delle materie prime in prodotti finiti. Il rinvenimento di oggetti come fuseruole e rocchetti in un contesto archeologico rappresenta una prova indiretta della pratica di attività di filatura e tessitura. Il sempre maggiore utilizzo di questi oggetti nei contesti funerari del I millennio a.C. fa sorgere una serie di interrogativi sul loro significato nella quotidianità; diversi studi a riguardo hanno cercato di chiarire se fossero stati realmente utilizzati dal defunto, dalla sua famiglia o da altri individui che erano in contatto con il defunto stesso quando era ancora in vita, o ancora, in che modo siano stati utilizzati oppure se, al contrario, venivano introdotti nel corredo funerario senza essere mai stati impiegati nelle attività di tessitura (BARTOLONI 1989; 2000; 2002; TOMS 1998, GLEBA 2008).
Fuseruole e rocchetti sono oggetti apparentemente semplici che, tuttavia, sono relazionati a gesti molto specifici e altamente vincolati al background culturale di chi li utilizzava. Inoltre, l’esistenza di un’ampia variabilità di tecniche di filatura e tessitura, ben documentate ad oggi in contesti tradizionali, suggerisce come strumenti simili possono essere stati utilizzati in svariati modi (vedi HUDSON 2014).
Questo contributo è un primo tentativo di investigare l’uso di strumenti archeologici da un punto di vista sperimentale e traceologico che può aiutare a definire con maggiore precisione le caratteristiche tecnologiche di fuseruole e rocchetti ed identificare le principali modificazioni che le attività di filature e tessitura possono provocare sulle superfici degli strumenti
Traceological analysis applied to textile implements: An assessment of the method through the case study of the 1st millennium BCE ceramic tools in central Italy
No full textThis contribution focuses on the application of traceological analysis to ceramic textile tools. Traceological analysis has been rarely applied to the study of this specific category of artefacts. A dedicated reference collection needed to be created for a proper understanding of the development of both technological and use traces, on apparently simple artefacts that, nevertheless, are connected with very specific gestures highly constrained by cultural background of their users. Our experimental framework was based on the ceramic textile tools from the cemeteries of Cerveteri, Vulci, Narce and Falerii in Central Italy, dated to the 1st millennium BCE. The macroscopic analyses of archaeological and experimental ceramic textile tools allowed to define the technological features of production, such as the exploited ceramic pastes and the traces related to the various steps of tool production including modelling, surface treatment, decoration and firing techniques. Moreover, this investigation allowed to define the technological traces and to distinguish them from use wear traces and post-depositional alterations
Caricola, I. & Lemorini, C., (in press), Strumenti da macinazione e abrasione. La sperimentazione e l’analisi delle tracce d’uso. In: Grotta della Monaca. Studi e ricerche I, (Larocca F., Ed.) Centro Regionale di Speleologia “Enzo dei Medici”, Roseto Capo Spulico.
No full textThe ‘Textile culture at Pompeii’ Project
No full textThere are various indications for textile production in the ancient city of Pompeii and its vicinity, but archaeological research was mainly focused on corresponding features in the urban structures so far. In this regard it has to be noted that the textiles themselves have only met little interest. The same applies to the elements of dress preserved as impressions on the so-called calchi. This apparent lack is remarkable, as the textile evidences from the Vesuvian area can not only be dated exactly, but also because they provide the possibility of a comparison of one type of material in different variants of preservation. In order to fill this lacuna the Research Project “Cultura Tessile a Pompei” was initiated. The aim of this multidisciplinary project is to provide new input to the ongoing debate on the significance of textile economy in the Vesuvian area in antiquity by looking on textile culture as a whole. Investigations on the spinning and weaving contexts and materials were carried out by M. Galli and C. Lemorini; selected examples of both calchi and textiles are evaluated by S. Mitschke and F. Coletti. The possibility of carrying out archaeometric analysis on textile micro-samples sheds light on local and imported goods as well as standardized and high quality textile products. By this means it can be stated that the results of these multidisciplinary research activities clearly reveal untapped potential in this field
Chipped stone use-wear
No full textThis chapter presents and discusses the results of the use-wear analysis of the chipped stone tools from Çatalhöyük. During our work at the site, we did not have time to analyse the chipped stone tools coming from the entire excavation of the East Mound. We decided to fully analyse some well-preserved buildings that could exemplify living units through the Neolithic sequence. We applied this sampling program to Buildings 65, 56, 44 and related middens of the South Area, whose excavation preceded 2009 (and is not reported on here), and Buildings 77, 131, 132 and related middens of the North Area (Spaces 439, 610, 631). We also analysed two deposits (the infill corresponding to Space 623 and the midden corresponding to (23143)) that preceded the construction of Building 131. Regarding the oldest building of the sequence, Building 139, we analysed only the chipped stone tools that came from its infillings (Sp.623). Thus, these chipped stone tools testify to activities not directly connected with B.139
Trattamento e conservazione degli alimenti durante la preistoria recente nell'Italia centro-meridionale
No full textThe subject of management of food resources among prehistoric communities has received increasing attention among Italian scholars in recent years, so that a number of data, including spatial analyses and use-wear analyses, are now available that can help us in reconstructing social practices related to food processing and storage among prehistoric societies with productive economy. Patterns of food management and processing fall into the patterns of behaviour that characterised specific human groups. Therefore, their study allows us to explore cultural boundaries and changes in the organisations of such types of activities that can be related to processes of social transformations. In the light of these issues, authors compare and contrast various contexts on both a synchronic and diachronic scale with the aim of highlighting similarities and differences in the patterns of food processing and storage in central-southern Italy from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. Significant key-study contexts are analysed. Moreover, the potential of use-wear analyses on lithic artefacts is specifically discussed
The origins of recycling. A Paleolithic perspective
No full textThe study of lithic recycling in Paleolithic cultures throughout the Old World is increasingly becoming atopic of interest for many scholars. Technological analyses, refitting, and spatial analyses are disclosingthe“recycling behavior”of many contexts, especially those of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites. Stilllacking, however, is a functional approach to the subject, which would certainly add new pieces to thisintriguing jigsaw puzzle.Use-wear analysis, one of the most powerful methods to reach functional interpretations in lithicfinds,can greatly improve our understanding of Paleolithic recycling behavior. Even in those cases where post-depositional alterations affected lithic items, use-wear analyses may produce important data despite thedecrease in detail or less than optimal conditions of preservation.At the late Lower Paleolithic site of Qesem Cave, the high degree of conservation and preservation ofthe lithic tools maximizes the inference potential of this method. In this article, functional data aresummarized following a study of a large sample of Amudian parentflakes (flakes from which wereproduced cores onflakes, termed COF-FFs) as well as recycled products (blanks produced from COF-FFs).Confirming the inference potential of use-wear analyses, this data allows for the delineation of functionalpeculiarities of the studied items, which, despitefirst impression, are anything but expedient. Moreover,the current use-wear analysis expands the scenario outlined by the technological study of the lithicrecycling phenomenon at Qesem Cave, confirming its own role in the complex techno-functional systempracticed by the hominins of Qesem Cave
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