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Profilo dell'attività scientifica di Fabiola Ardizzone
2018
Si ripercorre l'attività scientifica della compianta Collega Fabiola Ardizzone, dai suoi esordi come allieva della Cattedra di Archeologia Cristiana dell'Università di Palermo, all'attività di insegnamento e di ricerca sul campo in qualità di Professore Associato. Il contributo dato da Fabiola Ardizzone agli studi sulla Tarda Antichità e sul Medioevo siciliani hanno riguardato molteplici direttrici di ricerca: dall'identificazione di nuove classi ceramiche alle modalità di organizzazione delle aree funerarie, dai problemi di topografia urbana all'archeologia dei cimiteri e ai problemi della produzione e circolazione delle produzioni ceramiche. The paper traces the scientific activity of Fab…
Archaeogenetics and Landscape Dynamics in Sicily during the Holocene: A Review
2021
The Mediterranean islands and their population history are of considerable importance to the interpretation of the population history of Europe as a whole. In this context, Sicily, because of its geographic position, represents a bridge between Africa, the Near East, and Europe that led to the stratification of settlements and admixture events. The genetic analysis of extant and ancient human samples has tried to reconstruct the population dynamics associated with the cultural and demographic changes that took place during the prehistory and history of Sicily. In turn, genetic, demographic and cultural changes need to be understood in the context of the environmental changes that took place…
The indigenous settlement of Monte Iato (western Sicily): an ethnoarchaeometric approach for outlining local Archaic ceramic productions
2021
AbstractAn ethnoarchaeometric approach has been followed to identify the textural and compositional characteristics of the ceramic pastes produced in ancient Iaitas/Ietas, an indigenous site located in western Sicily on Monte Iato, a few tens of kilometres from Palermo. This approach was primarily motivated by the lack of discovered Archaic kilns or production sites/workshops and the inability to identify reference groups. Raw clays were sampled in the territory of San Cipirello and San Giuseppe Iato (today’s municipalities both sited on the northern slopes of Monte Iato), together with representative historic tiles and bricks locally produced until fairly recently. Grain-size analysis and …
Last Glacial Human Settlement in Eastern Cantabria (Northern Spain)
2002
While the excavation of individual sites remains fundamental to the creation of the Palaeolithic archeological record, increasingly the focus of prehistoric research is on human adaptations to and within natural regions. Such a reorientation implies viewing sites and occupations as samples of different suites of activities in various habitats across space and time; it is dependent on the use of radiocarbon to date and relate occupation residues among sites; and it necessitates the application of methods to uncover patterns of human mobility as an integral aspect of subsistence economy, demographic arrangements and social relations. This paper contributes to the regional study of Last Glacia…
The production cycle of lime-based plasters in the Late Roman settlement of Scauri, on the island of Pantelleria, Italy
2018
This paper deals with the archaeometric study of lime-based plasters found in the archaeological settlement of Scauri, located in the homonymous bay in the south-western part of Pantelleria Island. Since 1999, archaeological surveys have led to the recovery of the huge remains of a Late Roman settlement dating back to the fourth-fifth century AD. It is well known that the island of Pantelleria is entirely composed of volcanic rocks. Accordingly, the production of quicklime required calcareous rocks to be imported. Also, the selection criteria of the sandy aggregate are relevant and of interest to this study, to evaluate the achieved technological level. Within this context, a mineralogical …
Iron Age Landscape and Rural Habitat in the Edetan Territory, Iberia (4th–3rd centuries BC)
2009
This article focuses on the rural organisation and the settlement pattern of the Iberian Iron Age city of Edeta. Ongoing research into its macro-spatial organisation has revealed the existence of different functions and internal features within the settlements and their relation to a wider and more integrated space: the territory. Based on excavation and survey data, we present new questions and analytical categories in order to approach issues related to territory formation and the emergence of socio-economic complexity in the Iron Age societies of ancient eastern Iberia.
on the contrasts in the charcoal assemblage of a Late Iron Age and a Romano-British roadside settlement
2019
On the contrasts in the charcoal assemblage of a Late Iron Age and a Romano-British roadside settlement
Segunda campaña de excavación en el asentamiento ibérico final de la Casa de la Cabeza (Requena, València)
2011
Second report about the excavations in Casa de la Cabeza, an iberian rural settlement (IInd century BC).
El registro material del colmenar ibérico de la Fonteta Ràquia (Riba-Roja, València)
2016
La excavación arqueológica en 2008 del yacimiento de la Fonteta Ràquia (Riba-Roja del Túria, València) permitió documentar un pequeño asentamiento rural de la Edetania, territorio de la antigua ciudad ibérica de Edeta / Tossal de Sant Miquel (Llíria, València). El núcleo estuvo ocupado entre finales del s. V a.C. y finales del III / comienzos del II a.C. Destaca, por encima de todo, por una gran especialización en apicultura, tal y como demuestra el hallazgo de miles de fragmentos de aproximadamente 200 colmenas cerámicas, superando con creces los registros precedentes de este tipo de actividad en Iberia y el Mediterráneo en general. The archaeological excavation of the site in Fonteta Ràqu…
The public and private use of space in Magdalenian societies: Evidence from Oelknitz 3, LOP (Thuringia, Germany)
2015
Abstract The site of Oelknitz (Thuringia, Germany) is among the largest and in terms of spatial organisation most complex Magdalenian open air sites known to date, rich in evident structures. The current paper reports evidence from the youngest, latest phase of occupation at Oelknitz Structure 3. It is demonstrated that this structure represents a dwelling construction characterised by different spatially distinct activity zones. Several hypotheses can be drawn from this evidence in order to understand basic principles on Magdalenians’ settlement behaviour and their social cohesion.