Archeometric characterization of prehistoric grindstones from Milazzo Bronze Age settlement (Sicily, Italy)
| Autor: | Marcella Di Bella, Maria Clara Martinelli, Simona Quartieri, Giuseppe Sabatino, Paolo Mazzoleni, Francesco Italiano, Alessandro Tripodo, G. Tigano |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Archeology
geography Provenance geography.geographical_feature_category 060102 archaeology Volcanic arc biology Andesites 06 humanities and the arts 010502 geochemistry & geophysics biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Archaeology Archeometry . Early Bronze Age . Grinding tools . Volcanic rock . SEM-EDS . XRF Petrography Volcanic rock Volcano Bronze Age Anthropology Rhyolite 0601 history and archaeology Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Popis: | The results of a petrographic and geochemical study carried out on archeological grindstones allow to provide new constraints on protohistoric commercial exchanges over the Mediterranean area. Eleven grindstones, discovered in an archeological site located in Milazzo (Messina, Sicily) and dated from the Early Bronze Age, have been investigated by geochemical and petrographic techniques. The raw materials are mainly volcanic rocks characterized by calc-alkaline and K-alkaline affinities with volcanic arc geochemical signature. Only one sample, made of basalt belonging to the Na-alkaline series, shows an intraplate signature. The comparison with the available literature data for similar rocks allowed constraining the volcanic origin of the exploited lavas. While the intraplate-type raw material came from Mt. Etna Volcano (Sicily), the arc-type volcanic rocks are mostly trachyandesites, basaltic andesites, and one rhyolite. Although most of them come from the Aeolian Arc, a provenance of some samples from the Aegean Arc cannot be excluded. This last region could represent the most probable provenance area for the rhyolite sample. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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