Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 35 [PDF]
This is the 35th list of AMS radiocarbon determinations measured at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). Amongst some of the sites included here are the latest series of determinations from the key sites of Abydos, El Mirón, Ban Chiang, Grotte
Baker, D. +5 more
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Archéométrie qui trouve, archéométrie qui prouve ?
In the seventies was beginning the first important archaeological researches on the ancient iron metallurgy of La Montagne Noire. A few years after, archaeometry joined the research team and never left it.
Marie-Pierre Coustures
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Two Mycenaean Stirrup-jars from the Levant [PDF]
A cache of artifacts, recovered in 2014 by the cultural heritage squadron of the Guardia di Finanza (Gruppo Tutela Patrimonio Archeologico of the Nucleo Polizia Tributaria di Roma), included two Mycenaean stirrup jars among the pottery illegally brought ...
SPAGNOLI, FEDERICA
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A practical method for preparing Ca(OH)2 nanodispersions for the consolidation of archaeological calcareous stones [PDF]
Exposure to atmospheric conditions results in considerable deterioration of calcareous building stones, lime mortars and plasters in archaeological monuments, requiring several conservation treatments.
Caner, Evin, Caner-Saltık, E.N.
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Diagnosing stone decay in built heritage. Facts and perspectives
Stone and other materials used for the construction of historic buildings, memorial statues, gravestones and similar are exposed to weathering and polluting agents and, therefore, progressive decay.
Fernando Veniale +2 more
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Archaeology, science-based archaeology and the Mediterranean Bronze Age metals trade [PDF]
Archaeologists often seem either sceptical of science-based archaeology or baffled by its results. The underpinnings of science-based archaeology may conflict with social or behavioural factors unsuited to quantification and grouping procedures.
Knapp, A.B.
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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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The orientation of the Mithraea in Ostia Antica [PDF]
We conducted an investigation on the orientations and geometrical content of the Mithraea of Ostia Antica. A geometrical CAD study based on the most reliable plans from the Archives of the Sovrintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo, il MNR e l’Area ...
Carnevale, Flavio +6 more
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Estakhr Project - Third preliminary report of the joint Mission of the Iranian center for archaeological research, the Parsa-Pasargadae research foundation and the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy [PDF]
This report presents the preliminary results of the study of the pottery collected during the excavation campaign carried out in 2012 in the framework of the joint Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Estakhr. The ceramic finds relate to a time span
Agnese, Fusaro +5 more
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Not invasive analyses on a tin-bronze dagger from Jericho. A case study [PDF]
Tin-bronze makes its appearance in Southern Levant during the Early Bronze IV, the post-urban phase of the last centuries of the 3rdmillennium BC, when arsenical copper was still the most widespread copper alloy. Only from the following Middle Bronze Age
Caminiti, Ruggero +3 more
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