" This book offers an archaeological analysis of maritime economy and connectivity in the Roman east. That seafaring was fundamental to prosperity under Rome is beyond doubt, but …
MS Shackley - Archaeometry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
For 50 years, archaeologists and physical scientists have been dating, determining the composition of and measuring stone tools, and reporting them in Archaeometry and many …
The paper reports the results of a multi-analytical characterization study on the renders constituting the waterproofing coatings of 11 cisterns located in the Punic-Roman …
E D'Ambrosio, F Marra, A Cavallo, M Gaeta… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we present new geochemical and petrographic data aimed at identifying the volcanic materials used in Roman times to produce the fine aggregate of mortars employed …
M Miše, PS Quinn - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2022 - Springer
The presence of Hellenistic and Late Republican transport amphorae at numerous sites along the Adriatic and within shipwrecks off the coast indicates that intense trade and/or …
F Marra, E D'Ambrosio - Archaeometry, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Identification of the volcanic material (pozzolan) stored in a R oman ship of the fourth to third century bce, wrecked in the ancient harbour of Pisa (central I taly), was based on ratios of …
Geochemical investigations on samples of pumice and lava extracted from the mortars and concretes of the Forum of Caesar and the Forum and Markets of Trajan are presented and …
The mastery of the use of lightweight rocks in concrete as a means of controlling the thrusts of large‐scale vaults was among the most important contributions of the Roman builders to …
M Miše, PS Quinn, MD Glascock - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The present paper sheds new light on the alteration of archaeological ceramics buried in marine environments by analysing in detail a large dataset of Hellenistic and Late Roman …