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Portable and Raman imaging usefulness to detect decaying on mortars from Punta Begoña Galleries (Getxo, North of Spain)
(Wiley, 2016-12)
Punta Begoña Galleries were built in 1918 in Getxo (Basque Country, North of Spain) but were abandoned in 1960. Nowadays, their conservation state is very poor. In this work, portable Raman spectroscopy was applied to ...
Alterations and Contaminations in Ceramics Deposited in Underwater Environments: An Experimental Approach
(MDPI, 2021-07-15)
Ancient ceramics recovered after a long burial period have probably undergone several alterations and contaminations, introducing a chemical variability, affecting the ceramic’s natural variability. That is, the chemical ...
The Ychsma ceramic provenance from Armatambo, 1250 – 1532 CE (Lima, Peru). A local or imported production?
(Elsevier, 2023-02)
The Ychsma society was one of the most important civilizations developed between 900 and 1532 CE in Lima, the present Peruvian capital, situated on the central coast of Peru. The Ychsma territory included the lower basin ...
Pottery making tradition in Logroño: an archaeometric approach to the Late Medieval workshops
(Springer, 2021-04-23)
This paper deals with the findings of Hospital Viejo site of Logroño (La Rioja, Spain), which yielded the largest evidence of local pottery production, comprising three kilns and a potters’ dump (13th–15th centuries). The ...
Non-destructive Screening Methodology based on ED-XRF for the classification of Medieval and post-Medieval Archaeological Ceramics
(Elsevier, 2019-06)
Compositional analysis of ceramics plays a crucial role in Archaeology because following the proper methodology, it enables to obtain knowledge about past human behavior. In this regard, X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry ...
Hit and sunk: provenance and alterations of ceramics from seventeenth century Angra D shipwreck
(2020-07-21)
A set of 34 archaeological ceramics, including olive jars, transparent green lead glazed, tin-lead glazed and unglazed ceramics, from seventeenth century Angra D shipwreck found at Terceira Island (Azores Archipelago, ...
The supply of ceramics to Portuguese north African strongholds in the 15th and 16th centuries: new archaeometric data from Ksar Seghir and Ceuta
(Elsevier, 2021-03-23)
The present study aims to present new archaeometric data from a wide typological rank of ceramics collected in Ksar Seghir (Morocco) and Ceuta (Spain), two different archaeological sites in the south bank of the Strait of ...
Submerged and reused: An archaeometric approach to the early Modern ceramics from Aveiro (Portugal)
(2020-11-02)
Aveiro, a city located in northern Portugal that lies next to the Atlantic Ocean, has a long potting tradition.
Indeed, during the 15th–17th centuries, this region played an important role in the maritime trade between ...