Archaeometry
Research area: Applied Earth Sciences
Coordinators: Maria Pia Riccardi, Maya Musa, Giacomo Zatti, Giulia Moiraghi, Athos Callegari, Gisella Rebay, Farncesco Zucca
ERC Sectors: PE10_10 Mineralogy, petrology, igneous petrology, metamorphic petrology; SH6_1 Historiography, theory and methods in history, including the analysis of digital data, PE4_17 Characterisation methods of materials
1. Traceability/Traceability of Natural Resources and Objects in Pre-Industrial Production
The need to determine the geographic origin of the sources of raw materials used for historical and archaeological production addresses issues related to the reconstruction of production technology and the contextualization of trade and exchange of artifacts over long or short distances; therefore, contacts between homogeneous groups more or less distant from each other. This research aims to reconstruct the relationships between production and raw materials, considering the evolution of the territory in prehistoric and historical times. A methodical data collection protocol from multiple disciplines and an abductive approach to their interpretation provide a stimulating path of comparison and discovery.
2. Archaeometry of Production
No production activity, ancient or current, is exempt from producing waste. Archaeological and historical production is no exception. The research, with a strongly transdisciplinary approach, addresses the interpretation of production "indicators," meaning the organic and contemporary evidence of archaeological remains of production and/or processing. The precise interpretation of these indicators is not always unequivocal. Careful observation of the archaeological evidence, combined with textural, microstructural, and compositional study, sometimes allows us to resolve interpretative doubts and reconstruct the operational chain. The reconstruction of technical and technological history also touches on themes such as the migration and evolution of knowledge, and the mutation of technologies based on raw materials, needs, consumption, and culture.
DAFIST - Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia, UNIGE (Fabio Negrino); Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, UNIBO (Maurizio Cattani); Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, UNIMI (Umberto Tecchiatti); DAStU Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, POLIMI (Angelo Landi, Marica Forni); Dipartimento di Fisica "Giuseppe Occhialini", UNIMIB (Daniela Di Martino); ISAC-CNR Bologna (Alessandra Bonazza); DSPA- Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate, UNIURB (Alberto Renzulli, Patrizia Santi); MET Museum (NY) (Elena Basso, Federico Carò); Université Cergy - Paris (Beatriz Menéndez); Technical University of Denmark (Inge Rörig-Dalgaard); IGEO Instituto de Geociencias (Mónica Álvarez de Buergo); Cinvesta - Center for Research and Advanced Studies del National Polytechnic Institute, Messico (Patricia Quintana Owen); CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; GEA Asesoria Geologica, Spagna (Félix Mateo Redondo); REMPART Francia (Fabrice Duffaud); Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario, Colombia (Benjamin Raphael Quesada); Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Messico (Susana Del Carmen De La Rosa García); Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Messico (Javier Reyes Trujeque); Instituto Nacional Antropología e Historia, Messico (Claudia Garcia); Politécnica del Centro, Messico (Sergio Gomez-Cornelio).
1. H2020 - RISE SCORE: Sustainable COnservation and REstoration of built cultural heritage
2. E-RIHS MOLAB GEMMAE: Glass-gems Exploration by Multidisciplinary Methods, Analyses and Experiments
Manship, E., Cavallo, G., Gilardi, J., & Riccardi, M. P. (2023). Treating smalt: a preliminary SEM-EDX study of the effects of aqueous-based alkaline conservation treatments on smalt in wall paintings. Studies in Conservation, 68(1), 68-83.
Giumlia-Mair, A., & Riccardi, M. P. (2020). Bronze Age/Iron Age cauldrons with cross-attachments or Kreuzattaschenkessel. Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35(13), 1519-1526.
Caucia, F. P., Marinoni, L., Scacchetti, M., Riccardi, M. P., & Bartoli, O. (2020). The Vesuvianite Gems of the Val d’Ala (Piedmont, Italy). Minerals, 10(6), 535.
Cavallo, G., Fontana, F., Gialanella, S., Gonzato, F., Riccardi, M. P., Zorzin, R., & Peresani, M. (2018). Heat treatment of mineral pigment during the upper Palaeolithic in north‐east Italy. Archaeometry, 60(5), 1045-1061.
Zhang, K., Rampazzi, L., Riccardi, M. P., Sansonetti, A., & Grimoldi, A. (2018). Mortar mixes with oxblood: historical background, model sample recipes and properties. Advances in Geosciences, 45, 19-24.