Conveners: Fabrizio Antonelli (Università Iuav di Venezia), Emma Cantisani (ISPC-CNR, Firenze), Giacomo Eramo (Università di Bari Aldo Moro), Celestino Grifa (Università del Sannio)
fabria@iuav.it
fabria@iuav.it
Mineralogy, petrography and geochemistry are pillar disciplines of the archaeometric and archaeological sciences that deal with the study of natural and artificial geomaterials – such as stones, marbles, ceramics, glasses, mortars, plasters/frescoes, pigments and metals – used for different typologies of artifacts and architectural elements. Their contribution is of fundamental importance for the definition of the sourcing-manufacture-use process, which we nowadays define as the supply chain, inferring the capacity of raw material procurement strategies and technological development of the ancient populations. To this end, a multitude of analytical laboratory techniques have served these disciplines for decades, providing a large number of datasets. This session is open to contributions focused on both provenance studies of archaeological materials, from terrestrial, underwater and museum contexts, and the attainment of technological skills by ancient craftsmen. New approaches to dataset management, elaboration and interpretation by new geostatistical and AI-supported tools to solve provenance/technology problems are particularly welcome.