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The F aragola Ceramic Collection: Ceramic Production, Consumption and Exchange in Seventh‐Century A pulia
Author(s) -
Gliozzo E.,
Scrima G.,
Turchiano M.,
Memmi I. Turbanti
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/arcm.12051
Subject(s) - ceramic , settling , mineralogy , decantation , petrography , inductively coupled plasma , neutron activation analysis , geology , inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry , mass spectrometry , materials science , chemistry , metallurgy , environmental science , plasma , physics , chromatography , radiochemistry , quantum mechanics , environmental engineering
A collection of 30 ceramic samples, 16 of coarse wares and 14 of fine painted wares, have been investigated by optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and neutron activation analysis. Further samples of clayey sediments, both locally outcropping and found within the settling tank, have been submitted to the same analytical techniques for comparison with the ceramic collection. The results demonstrated that local clayey sediments were used as received for the production of coarse wares. The same raw materials were sieved and/or refined by decantation for the production of fine painted wares, which, in fact, provided results that were perfectly comparable with those for the clayey raw materials found within the settling tank. The F aragola productions were distinguished from the neighbouring A pulian productions according to petrographic features (the presence of leucite‐bearing volcanic rocks and M n‐rich wads) and their bulk chemical composition.