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Recensione di D. Usai, S. Tuzzato, M. Vidale (eds), Tales of Three Worlds. Archaeology and Beyond: Asia, Italy, Africa. A Tribute to Sandro Salvatori, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2020
No full textrecensione a volume miscellaneo: Tales of three worlds. Archaeology and beyond: Asia, Italy, Africa. A tribute to Sandro Salvatori (D. Usai, S. Tuzzato, M. Vidale
Automatic Classification of Archaeological Materials: Possibilities and Limits. An Example (Uruk/Jamdat Nasr Cylinder Seals from Greater Mesopotamia)
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Remains from Butchery Activities from Late Bronze Age Contexts at the Aradetis Orgora Site (Georgia, Southern Caucasus)
No full textThe paper presents the results of the study of animal remains from two different spaces of the Late Bronze settlement of Aradetis Orgora, Georgia, which we interpret as areas of disposal for the remains of butchering activities. The results of the analysis are compared both with contexts of different periods and areas, which yielded similar butchery disposal remains, and, for a general assessment of animal economy at the Aradetis Orgora site, with palaeofaunal data from other sites of the highland regions of the Near East. It shows how intra-site investigation of faunal remains in the framework of a deep interaction between archaeologists and bone specialists is crucial for understanding the precise nature of different bone recovery contexts, and allows to better understand both the use of individual spaces and the general choices of past animal economy
The Archaeology of Wine in the Southern Caucasus. New Methods for an Old Tradition
Full text linkThe Southern Caucasus belongs to the core area where viticulture and wine production first developed in the Neolithic period (sixth millennium BC). Since then wine occupied, and still continues to occupy, a central role in the local cultures, as part of the subsistence economy, a focus of ritualised consumption and a source of visual symbols. Archaeology provides ample material evidence of this tradition and of its continuity/development, in particular from the territory of Georgia: wine production installations, areas for storage, consumption and deposition, specialised tools and vessels, wine-related iconography, etc. The article presents a selection of the different categories of evidence and focuses on the new results obtained on the ‘Archaeology of Wine’ in the region through a multidisciplinary approach and with the help of bioarchaeology and ‘archaeological science
Modelling the Archaeologist’s Thinking for the Automatic Classification of Uruk Jamdat Nasr Seals Images
No full textHierarchical Factor Classification for Contingency Tables
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Beasts and Wine. Zoomorphic Vessels and the Northern Corridor of the Near East
No full textThe recent discovery in Georgia of two Kura-Araxes zoomorphic vessels with possible analogues in Anatolia and in the Aegean opens up the intriguing possibility that the diffusion of these containers for the ritual consumption of alcoholic beverages followed a corridor crossing in EW direction the northern sector of the Near East
Ninevite 5 Relative Chronology, Periodization and Distribution: An Introduction
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Geoarchaeology and soil micromorphology of Early Bronze Age anthropic features from Natsargora settlement (southern Caucasus, Georgia). Preliminary data from the georgian-italian Shida Kartli archaeological project
No full textAt the Kura-Araxes site of Natsargora in Georgia, soil micromorphological study was carried out in 2011 on a sequence of prepared external surfaces and on two different combustion features (a typical clay hearth with inner projections, and a shallow cuvette of sub-rectangular shape). Prepared floors were intentionally fashioned by repeatedly laying down layers of yellowish local marine sediment of variable thickness, while the
thin dark horizons included between them represent residues of activities carried out on the floors, e.g. of processing of cereals and occasional animal parking. The first analysed installation turned out to be the result of the superimposition of two successive combustion features of the same type, while the second one was probably associated with cereal processing
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