A. M. Gueli, V. Garro, M. Liuzzo, G. Margani, S. Pasquale, G. Politi, G. Stella
The Baths of Indirizzo in Catania represent one of the best preserved thermal buildings in the Roman Empire. The goal of this research is twofold and concerns the determination of the date of the monument construction and of its last use. For these purposes, brick samples were collected at specific points of the baths, in order to date them by thermally stimulated luminescence. On this occasion we present some partial results and the study carried out for the optimization of the measurement protocol on historical terracotta.
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M. C. Citarella, G. D 'Andria, E. Donciglio, F. R. d’Ambrosio Alfano, B. I. Palella
Piccole Thermae in Baia, well known to whom deal with archaeology, are a little jewel from the thermo-technical perspective as they are the first example of heating system based upon renewable sources of energy. Unfortunately, as for all the antiquity baths, their thermo-technical mode of operation is known only from a merely qualitative point of view. This means that the principles of operation are well known due to the possibility to detect the presence of some components, but there are no reliable technical data on the installations. Probably due to the lack of an updated mapping, the...
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Beatrice De Rosa, Elisabetta Garau
Recent excavation carried out at the Nuragic site of Sant’Imbenia (Alghero-Sardinia) brought to light a considerable number of transport amphorae. The archaeometric and archaeological study allowed us to trace the identikit of these vessels, on the basis of technological and typological aspects. The paper is concentrated on the amphorae found in the hut 47, because they clearly illustrate the diversified production of these vases.
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L. Di Angelo, P. Di Stefano
In this paper performance evaluation and experimental characterization of a new automatic method for measuring vertebrae are analysed. Starting to a discrete valid geometric model of the vertebra, obtained from CT-scans or 3D scanning, the method measures algorithmically vertebrae. The proposed study is performed by analysing the most used dimensional features of lumbar and thoracic real vertebrae in anthropological investigations. The results are compared with the state-of-the-art methods for vertebra measurement.
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Maurizio Delli Santi
In the courtyard of the Episcopal palace Oria (a village located few kilometers at north-west of Brindisi) a Doric capital and a drum of the fifth century BC column (Classical period) from the ancient Acropolis Messapica are conserved. Also in Oria in the early medieval church of Gallana, about three kilometers from the Acropolis, there are two other Doric capitals, this time dating back to the Hellenistic period (fourth and third centuries BC). Starting with the measures of the moldings detected on the site and using the form (that is, the lowest common denominator of the relative sizes of...
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D. Malfitana, G. Leucci, A. Mazzaglia, G. Cacciaguerra, L. De Giorgi, S. Barone, G. Fragalà, P. D. Pavone, S. Russo
Results related to integrated virtual archaeology and geophysical surveys at the archaeological site of Sagalassos (Turkey) were presented. Data analysis demonstrate the conservation state of the Roman Bath and suggest the restoration intervents.
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Andrea Azelio Mencaglia, Iacopo Osticioli, Salvatore Siano
An innovative portable Raman system (exc. wav. 1064 nm) for safe molecular characterisation of pigments and other photosensitive materials has been developed and successfully tested. It was equipped with a novel probe, which has been designed and built in order to perform Raman scattering measurements on a relatively large area homogeneously irradiated at laser intensities lower than the typical ones needed using commercial instruments. Besides a set of original optical solutions providing improved efficiency, the instrument has also been equipped with an active thermal control line, which...
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Giampaolo Piga, David Goncalves, T. J. U. Thompson, Calil Makhoul, Ana Amarante, Stefano Enzo
We have applied spectroscopic and physicochemical techniques to the osteometric study of four human skeletons and teeth, all the biomaterials experimentally burned in a furnace at 1100° C. This is an innovative way of tracking heat-induced changes in human bone, in terms of physico-chemical properties related with structure, which is expected to impact in forensic, bioanthropological and archaeological contexts.
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Paola Calicchia, Luca Pitolli, Paolo Salonia
A territory, with its distinctive cultural patrimony effectively linked to the technological capabilities and grounded in the socio-economic context, constitutes a territorial system seemingly to a large-scale facility. This work illustrates the vision statement of a new model of territorial system recently launched, the Cultural Heritage Open Laboratory System (CHeLabS), aiming at the construction of this favorable context. The cultural asset (CH) is at the centre of this system, that addresses the challenge of a CH-driven development in science and technology. CHeLabS is thought as a...
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E. Shaykhutdinova, R. Khramchenkova, J. Mukhametshin, A. Bugarchev, A. Sitdikov
This work is the result of a investigation of silver-containing numismatic material discovered in the territory of Burunduki village located in the Tatarstan Republic (Russia). The coins were minted in the 13th century in Bolgar during the rule of the Juchid dynasty (the Golden Horde). X-ray fluorescence analysis of transverse fractures was selected as a research method in order to obtain an adequate pattern of chemical element distribution across the structural layers of coin material. The results of this study demonstrated that fracture-base mapping corresponds to physical processes...
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