Georgia Ntasi, Brunella Cipolletta, Carmen Aprea, Laura Dello Ioio, Celia Duce, Emanuele Crisci, Emilia Bramanti, Alessandro Vergara, Ilaria Bonaduce, Leila Birolo
Animal glues are widely used in restoration, as adhesives, binders, and consolidants for organic and inorganic materials. Their variable performances are intrinsically linked to the adhesive characteristics of collagen, which determines the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of the glue. A shotgun proteomic analysis provided animal origin, even when blended, and allowed to distinguish between hide and bone glue on the basis of the presence of collagen type III. Proteomics and analytical pyrolysis coupled to GC-MS have been used to analyse chemical modifications in collagen,...
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Eleni Konstantakopoulou, Annalaura Casanova Municchia, Roberto Ferretti, Simone Porcinai, Marco Ferretti
The emergence of hand-held X-ray fluorescence devices (HH-XRF) has changed the cultural approach to the analysis of ancient materials. These instruments are characterised by highly miniaturised hardware and powerful software and much of the designer s efforts are devoted to encourage users to consider the device as a black box, with no need to go into the substance of its functioning. For those who prefer to go into the substance instead, this paper discusses some preliminary activities necessary to prepare it for the field. In particular, we discuss the optimisation of the primary filter...
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Giulia Marcucci, Antonella Scherillo, Maria Pia Riccardi, Costanza Cucini, Marco Tizzoni, Daniela Di Martino
This work highlights the significant advances in neutron imaging at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, specifically focusing on the development of the nuclear technique Neutron Resonance Transmission Imaging (NRTI). NRTI combines the sensitivity to elemental and isotopic composition with detailed morphological information, utilizing the epithermal portion of the neutron flux. Unlike standard neutron radiography/tomography, NRTI allows for the identification and localization of specific elements and isotopes within an object's volume without physical sampling. The technique preserves detailed...
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Lucas Ignacio Gheco
It is a common approach in cultural heritage studies that portable and non-invasive techniques are used. However, when dealing with rock art research this represents further challenges. Our research carried out in El Alto-Ancasti's Mountain (Catamarca, Argentina), at several archaeological sites, have studied the historical processes of production, uses and transformation of caves and shelters with rock art. From a material approach to rock art, we have sought to understand the history of painting and use of different caves through a methodology that combines different lines of evidence:...
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Antonio Rodríguez Alcalá, John F. Chuchiak IV, Zoraida Raimúndez Ares, Maria Felicia Rega, Luis Díaz de León, Hans B. Erikson
In the context of heritage conservation, an important and recently developed part of any project is its virtual restitution. Virtual modelling is a growing discipline, used for various purposes, both academic and recreational. Thanks to the use of 3D reconstruction and augmented reality, it is possible to reconstruct an historical event and create an interactive experience aimed at a large audience. Praeteritas Urbes, in collaboration with INAH (Museo Regional de Palacio Cantón) and a multidisciplinary group of researchers, intends to reconstruct an important historical event for the history...
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Pablo Sicre-González, Ana María Niveau-de-Villedary Y Mariñas, Juan Ignacio Vallejo Sánchez, María Auxiliadora Llamas Márquez
We present here the knowledge transfer project that we are currently developing as a result of the collaboration between the University of Cádiz and the Provincial Archaeological Museum. The main objective is the virtual reconstruction of certain archaeological contexts of a Phoenician nature documented in the city of Cádiz, with the aim of making them directly accessible to the general public. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, we begin by taking reliable reconstructive hypotheses from a historical-archaeological point of view and transforming them into scientifically cross-checked 3D...
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Matteo Lombardi
This paper approaches the application of the Extended Matrix Tool to a broader landscape context. The idea underpinning this research is that this tool has a great potential in de-structuring landscape complexities and bridging together specialists from different fields thanks to semantic modelling. The selected case study, the II mile of the via Appia, frames a multi-stratified scenario made of a combination of Roman funerary monuments, private villas, squatters, homeless and XVIII-XIX century casals. This case study offers the opportunity to test a workflow in which archaeological data and...
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Eleonora Scopinaro, Simone Berto, Emanuel Demetrescu
This paper illustrates the preliminary results of an ongoing research concerning new investigative methods and tools useful to formalize transformative processes on built heritage, in a chronological perspective, through the study of surface alteration and degradation pathologies as Stratigraphic Units. This study aims at proposing a new section of the Extended Matrix (EM) method, composed of cutting-edge software solutions for managing and representing information, as a possible bridge between the archaeology of architecture, strictly connected to chronology, and the conservation science...
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Nicola Delbarba
This paper focuses on the implementation of virtual reconstructions as a scientific research tool within the traditional workflow of universities. The case study revolves around the late Roman defensive wall of Aquileia, known as M2, in the city s Southeast sector, where the University of Verona conducts research. The paper demonstrates how virtual reconstruction serves as an additional instrument for researchers engaged in archaeological investigations, providing scientific inquiry and transparency in reconstruction models. The formal language known as Extended Matrix (CNR) is utilised in...
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Anaïs Guillem, Antoine Gros, Abergel Violette, Livio De Luca
Despite their aesthetic expressivity, realistic images of reconstructed pasts tend to withhold the scientific work of reconstruction and fail to provide scholarly reusable documentation. The contribution examines the operative role of (3D-)representations in the context of archaeological reconstruction. We propose a semiotic framework to look at reconstruction images. A semiotics’ analysis (aesthetic, technical and analytical attributes) of practical examples of reconstruction images from the Notre-Dame de Paris arch reconstruction shows that there is a double effect of compression in the...
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