STUDIO ETNOARCHEOMETRICO DI MALTE AEREE A LEGANTE GESSOSO NELL’AREA DELLE MADONIE (SICILIA SETTENTRIONALE)

The Madonie Regional Park, which covers an area of about 400 square kilometres, is an ideal context where environment and man activities are still mixed harmoniously. In the last years a variety of ethno-archaeometric investigations have been carried out in order to study various aspects of the "material culture" of this territory. In particular, the research was focused on the production of majolica which have had a great importance since the early decades of the 16th century thanks to the geolithological features of the Madonie area, particularly rich in clayey raw material. The traditional building techniques of the Madonie which involve several typologies of building materials (used for…

Analisi al SEM-EDS di smalti e vetrine: esempi in Sicilia

Clayey materials used for ceramic manufacture in ancient Sicily

LE ANFORE PUNICHE DI ENTELLA (SICILIA CENTRO-OCCIDENTALE): ANALISI ARCHEOMETRICHE FINALIZZATE ALLA DETERMINAZIONE DI PROVENIENZA

Nuovi dati archeologici e archeometrici sulla produzione di ceramica indigena della Sicilia occidentale.

The production cycle of lime based plasters in the Late Roman settlement of Scauri, Island of Pantelleria (Italy)

This paper deals with the archaeometric study and analysis of lime based plasters recently found in the archaeological settlement of Scauri, located in the homonymous bay at the island of Pantelleria (central Mediterranean, Strait of Sicily). The Bay of Scauri is sited in the south-west part of the island. It can be considered a natural harbour overlooking the coast of Cape Bon in Tunisia. Since the 1999, the archaeological importance of place was reconsidered thanks to the recovering of huge remains of a Late Roman settlement dating back to the 4th-5th century AD. A production quarter, a residential area, a necropolis and a religious area were brought to light. The economy of the settlemen…