Serena Artese, Michele Perrelli, Fabrizio Rizzuti, Francesca Artese, Giuseppe Artese
The S. Angelo Roman bridge is an important remain, along the Via ab Regio ad Capuam, a Roman road quite well preserved. The bridge, sited in the valley of the Savuto river, is subject to structural monitoring by integrated techniques. In the framework of the several activities regarding the artifact and other historic buildings, a new sensor dedicated to structural and environmental monitoring has been realized. Geomatic activities, previously carried out, had allowed to realize a 3D model useful to carry out a Finite Element Modeling analysis. The output of this FEM analysis will be...
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Massimiliano Pepe, Domenica Costantino, Giuseppe Barnaba, Vincenzo Saverio Alfio, Gabriele Vozza
The aim of the work concerns the building of a three-dimensional model of the old town of Taranto (Italy) from a 1761 painting by English historian and geographer Thomas Salmon and published by Venetian printer Giambattista Albrizzi. To achieve this aim, a suitable and original methodology was developed. In addition, 3D modelling based on the use of Rhinoceros enabled the construction of a 3D city model. This model makes it possible to highlight the transformations and evolutions of the old town over time.
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Luca Alessandri, Valerio Baiocchi, Felicia Monti
We tested the use of a low-cost GPS RTK to set up a grid during the intensive archaeological survey of the Piscina Torta site, in the framework of the Salt and Power project of the University of Groningen. We also suggest not using a local grid but the WGS84 UTM grid and naming the single cells with the coordinates of one of its vertices. This would facilitate the use and exchange of the data (e.g. about the potsherds collected in the cell) among the scientific community.
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Michele Russo, Federico Panarotto, Giulia Flenghi, Elvira Rossi, Alberto Pellegrinelli
In the cultural heritage knowledge path, the survey process assumes a primary role as a tool to analyze and interpret through bibliographic and iconographic analysis and the study of reality. The case study analyzed in the article is the Castle of Canossa, the epicenter of some critical events in medieval times. The authors describe the first part of the research, mainly focused on the integrated survey process between active and passive techniques at architectural and territorial scales. Several geometrical validation steps have been introduced to verify the reliability of the 3D...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.034
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Alicia Muñoz del Pozo, Bruno Gómez de Soler
In this work we present the characterization lithic raw materials project and the first data from the macroscopic study of the archaeological material from level IIIb of Cova deTeixoneres (NE Iberian peninsula). The Teixoneres cave was a settlement where hominin-carnivors interactions took place during the Middle Palaeolithic. This project proposes the study of the procurement areas of the Neanderthals that occupied the site during short stays, based on the determination of the origin of archaeological lithic raw materials. Through macroscopic and microscopic analysis, we will try to know...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.033
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Sara Corona, María Soto, Carlo Lugliè
Is it possible to reconstruct the patterns of territorial mobility and the procurement strategies of early humans in island environment based on the supply of abiotic resources? This paper tackles the outcomes of a route simulation with GIS open-source technology for chert and obsidian procurement in prehistoric Corsica-Sardinia based on the principle of minimum energy cost. Particular focus is placed on research problems, as the method is applied for the first time on this geographical and chronological scale. The aim is to highlight both the shortcomings and the potential of Least Cost...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.032
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Morgane de Parthenay, Cédric Sarrazin
Based on the study of two collections from ancient excavations, the Grotte des Morts (Corrèze, France) and Plasenn-al-Lomm (Cotes-d’Armor, France), this paper focus on the description of the variability of the Raysse method through petroarchaeological and technological study of Raysse burins-core and associated by-products. In order to discuss the homogeneity of the Raysse technical tradition through the characterization of the technical variability of the Raysse elements, we propose a reading grid combining technological and petrological criteria. Techno-petrological analysis can also be...
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Maria Soto, Juan Ignacio Morales, Hassan Aouraghe, María Gema Chacón, Robert Sala Ramos
MobilLithics is a multiscalar project aimed at characterizing the lithic resources exploitation and territorial adaptive responses among the last neanderthals and Homo sapiens to different climatic, cultural, and biological dynamics. The project focuses on the Middle-to-Later Stone Age, in North Africa, and the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in the Mediterranean basin of the Iberian Peninsula, as key scenarios for the origin and expansion of our species. Results on geospatial modelling, petrographic and geochemical analysis, and multivariate statistics and predictive models...
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Ana Abrunhosa, Manuel Santonja, Alfredo Pérez-González, Joaquin Panera, Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Susana Rubio-Jara, Thierry Aubry, Maria dos Anjos Ribeiro, Luca A. Dimuccio
Most of the lithic tools made during Prehistory in the Iberian Peninsula are mainly composed of three main siliceous rock types: chert, quartzite, and quartz. While the methodologies for the characterization and provenance of raw materials made on chert (and obsidian) have been developed with well-established and widely used protocols, the same does not apply to quartzite and quartz veins. Here we present recent developments in characterization and provenance analysis of quartzite and quartz through two case studies: (1) establishing and testing an analytical protocol for the quartzite...
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Sandra Sivilli, Paul Fernandes
We present the methodology and results of research carried out in the framework of a PhD thesis [1]. The aim is to reconstruct the itineraries and dynamics of the relationships between Neolithic groups, from the 6th to the 4th millennium BC, in central and southern Apulia (Italy). In this paper, we illustrate the characterization study of the regional flint, carried out with an interdisciplinary, palaeogeographic and territorial approach, through the concept of "flint evolutionary chain" (sensuFernandes e Raynal 2006). The result is an operational and interpretative tool that can also be...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.028
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