![]() However, related mobility patterns remained poorly understood. Technological characteristics of the lithic assemblage show that the knapping sequence started off-site. Excavations revealed hominin remains, including Neanderthal burials. The amphorae found at Castro do Vieito appear to have been produced in southern Spain and used to transport agricultural produce to the north, but a definite location for their production cannot yet be given.Īmud Cave (eastern Upper Galilee, Israel) is known for its Middle Paleolithic deposits, containing thousands of animal bones and lithic artifacts from 3 anthropogenic stratigraphic units, dated to 68-55 ka. Oxidation during the final stage of firing often lead to sherds with more divalent iron in the core than on the surface. The amphorae from Castro do Vieito as well as the sherds from the kiln sites were found to have been fired at temperatures around 800 oC in atmospheres that changed between reducing and oxidizing at least once during the firing cycle. ![]() ![]() Moreover, clays collected near the kiln sites were fired in the laboratory for comparison with the amphora material. For comparison, sherds found at eight kiln sites in the south of Spain, in the former Roman provinces of Baetica and Lusitania, were studied. Roman Haltern 70 type amphorae found at Castro do Vieito, an archaeological site in the north of Portugal, in the former Roman province of Lusitania, were studied by 57-Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, X ray diffraction and X ray fluorescence with the aim of elucidating their firing conditions and their site of production. 15-19 April 2015 – Hilton San Francisco Union Square (San Francisco, USA). Communication at the “80th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeologists (SAA 2015)”, organized by Jane Eva Baxter (DePaul University). ![]()
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