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Eye makeup in Northwestern Iran at the time of the Assyrian Empire: a new kohl recipe based on manganese and graphite from Kani Koter (Iron Age III)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S1, Page S7-S21, April 2026.
Abstract Kohl was ubiquitous in ancient Egypt and the Middle East, and routinely included among the toiletries deposited in burials. For Egypt, kohl recipes are increasingly well‐studied and known to use a range of inorganic and organic ingredients. Although these are often lead‐based, manganese‐ and silicon‐rich compounds are also attested.
Silvia Amicone, Baptiste Solard, Shelir Amelirad, Eghbal Azizi, Lara Maritan, Maxime Rageot, Christoph Berthold, Karen Radner   +7 more
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Tin isotope ratios in Early and Middle Bronze Age bronzes from central and southeastern Europe

UISPP Journal, 2019
The paper presents the results of two case studies. A first sample set includes tin isotopic compositions of 15 bronzes from three large hoards of the Early Bronze Age Únětice Culture in Central Germany.
Bianka Nessel, Gerhard Brügmann, Ernst Pernicka   +2 more
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Mobile Spectroscopy in Archaeometry: Some Case Study

Journal of Spectroscopy, 2018
We provide an overview of recent results obtained by the innovative application of mobile spectroscopy for in situ investigation in archaeometry. Its growing relevance is linked to the great advantages of avoiding the transport and eventual damage of ...
Vincenza Crupi, Sebastiano D’Amico, Lucia Denaro, Paola Donato, Domenico Majolino, Giuseppe Paladini, Raffaele Persico, Mauro Saccone, Carlo Sansotta, Grazia Vera Spagnolo, Valentina Venuti   +10 more
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‘You Load Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?’. The Jodłowno Hoard (Pomerania, Poland) as Evidence of Long‐Distance Contacts in the Early Iron Age

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 193-211, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents multifaceted analyses of metal artefacts from the Jodłowno Hoard (Northern Poland), revealing that the metal originated from Iberian polymetallic ore deposits. Transported as raw ingots via Atlantic maritime routes, this copper was reworked locally into regionally distinctive forms.
K. Nowak, P. Gan, Z. Stos‐Gale, K. Cywa, J. Karasiński   +4 more
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Dernières avancées des études sur la production, la circulation et la datation des métaux ferreux archéologiques

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2015
This article presents the latest advances in the field of archaeometric studies for iron based artefacts. These are placed in line with the approaches taken for many years in an interdisciplinary way on both metal production sites and on the objects ...
Philippe Dillmann, Stéphanie Leroy, Alexandre Disser, Sylvain Bauvais, Enrique Vega, Philippe Fluzin   +5 more
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Arianna's Palette: A Diagnostic Study of the Painting Walls of the Domus of Arianna in Pompeii

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 261-273, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The House of Arianna, also known as the House of Colored Capitals, represents, with its 1700 m2 of floor space, one of the most majestic examples of a residence within the Pompeii archaeological site. The research developed within the project “Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society—CHANGES” reports the outcomes of the ...
Maria Verde, Alberto De Bonis, Claudia Di Benedetto, Diego Di Martire, Ersilia Fiore, Francesco Izzo, Renata Picone, Leopoldo Repola, Lia Romano, Vincenzo Morra   +9 more
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The Neolithic Site of Piano dei Cardoni in the Island of Ustica (Italy): Minero‐Petrographic and Chemical Characterization of the Ceramic Finds and Clayey Raw Materials

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of minero‐petrographic and chemical analyses of pottery and potential local raw materials from Ustica, a small volcanic island off the coast of Palermo (Sicily), inhabited during the Middle Neolithic. Typologically, the pottery shows cultural connections to the Bicromica and Serra d'Alto traditions, linking ...
G. Montana, C. Speciale, G. Battaglia, L. Randazzo, G. Carnevale, M. V. Antonopoulou, A. Magrì   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Horse-headed saint christopher fresco in the sviyazhsk assumption cathedral (16^th-17^th century, Russia): History and archaeometry

, 2020
© 2018 MAA. The present paper is devoted to the study of wall paint of the late 16th-early 17th centuries with zoomorphic image of St. Christopher located at the Assumption Cathedral (which became UNESCO object in 2017) of the town-island of Sviyazhsk ...

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Mineralogy and archaeometry: fatal attraction

, 2011
The difficult and fascinating relationship between archaeometry and mineralogy continuously offers challenges and topics for research, though it is often troubled by the sectorial organization of academic structure, at present also severely limited by ...
ANGELINI, IVANA, Gilberto Artioli, Ivana Angelini, ARTIOLI, GILBERTO   +3 more
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Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul

Nature Communications
The route and speed of migration into Sahul by Homo sapiens remain a major research question in archaeology. Here, we introduce an approach which models the impact of the physical environment on human mobility by combining time-evolving landscapes with ...
Tristan Salles, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Ian Moffat, Laurent Husson, Manon Lorcery   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source