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The origin and development of Chinese ceramic saggers 中国陶瓷匣钵的起源与发展

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100028

Junming Wu, Chao Lei, Yimei Jiang, Riqin Shan, Jinxia Hai, Xiaoyan Xia

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Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2022.10.001

Jianjun Mei

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Identifying recipes of historical cupels from Yunnan, China 鉴别中国云南历史杯具的配方

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2025.100044

Ao Sun, Huimin Wu, Tian Liu, Yuchen Wang, Siran Liu

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Investigation on restoration materials and techniques on bronze artifacts using non-invasive imaging and spectroscopic methods 非侵入式成像与光谱技术对青铜器修复材料与技术的研究

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2025.100043

Wei Liu , Pengyu Zhang , Yuliang Zhao , Na Wu

{"title":"Investigation on restoration materials and techniques on bronze artifacts using non-invasive imaging and spectroscopic methods","authors":"Wei Liu , Pengyu Zhang , Yuliang Zhao , Na Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.aia.2025.100043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aia.2025.100043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Archaeological bronze artifacts are often found in fragmented or damaged states during excavation, necessitating restoration before they can be displayed in exhibitions. However, many early restoration works lack detailed documentation, posing significant challenges for museum conservators and scientists who want to reanalyze these restored artifacts. Reconstructing past restoration processes via scientific analysis is becoming a fundamental job. Previous studies on restoration materials and techniques for bronze artifacts have mostly relied on micro-analytical and invasive techniques, which are limited in providing comprehensive restoration information about artifacts as a whole. The present study employed imaging techniques, including macro X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray radiography, and ultraviolet-induced visible luminescence imaging, in combination with Raman spectroscopy and fiber optics reflectance spectroscopy, to investigate two bronze artifacts dated to the early Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE) in the collection of the National Museum of China. The results indicated that one of the artifacts, a bronze vessel (<em>yan</em>), exhibited extensive surface cracks and a large missing piece, which had been repaired using a copper plate joined with tin-lead soldering. Both artifacts showed evidence of surface retouching with pigments such as lithopone, lazurite, phthalocyanine blue, barium white, and chrome yellow. Lithopone, in particular, helps researchers estimate the restoration period of these artifacts, providing valuable insight into their conservation history. The integration of imaging and spectroscopic techniques proves to be an effective approach for characterizing the restoration materials and techniques applied to bronze artifacts, helping conservators in assessing the condition of restored bronze artifacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100038,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Archaeomaterials","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100043"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interests in previously published articles 关于先前发表的文章中缺少竞争利益声明的勘误表

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2025.100045

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Ritual use, consumption, and depositional practices at Agriomernos Cave, Northwestern Samos (Greece): A ceramic analytical approach 希腊萨摩斯岛西北部 Agriomernos 洞穴的仪式使用、消费和沉积习俗：陶瓷分析方法

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100041

Sergios Menelaou , Edyta Marzec , Fotis Georgiadis , Stella Katsarou , Anastasios Siros , Andreas Darlas

{"title":"Ritual use, consumption, and depositional practices at Agriomernos Cave, Northwestern Samos (Greece): A ceramic analytical approach","authors":"Sergios Menelaou , Edyta Marzec , Fotis Georgiadis , Stella Katsarou , Anastasios Siros , Andreas Darlas","doi":"10.1016/j.aia.2024.100041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aia.2024.100041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study utilises pottery as a proxy to identify patterns of use and consumption, as well as depositional strategies at Agriomernos, a recently discovered cave site on Samos Island (Greece). This discovery challenges our understanding of human–landscape interaction within a marginal region across two distinct prehistoric chronological episodes. As part of a broader research project, this paper presents the results from an integrated, multiscale analysis of pottery through morpho-stylistic and macroscopic examination, thin section petrography, and wavelength dispersive X–ray fluorescence spectroscopy (WD-XRF). The analysis has revealed a compositionally diverse ceramic assemblage that represents a range of different raw material sources on the island and, by extension, different groups of people. The identification of off-island imports adds new evidence to the reconstruction of Aegean connectivity patterns. Agriomernos Cave constitutes a key archaeological site within an area previously unexplored, offering a unique opportunity to investigate ancient mobility, landscape sacrality, and ritual performances manifested through periodical and repeated acts of deposition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100038,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Archaeomaterials","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100041"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667136024000141/pdfft?md5=4c6b3215fcca25da9ca7fcaccc62d32b&pid=1-s2.0-S2667136024000141-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From the hills to the sea: Mineralogical and chemical characterization of a roof tile assemblage from the Byzantine church at Ashdod-Yam (Israel) 从山到海：阿什杜德-亚姆（以色列）拜占庭教堂屋顶瓦组合的矿物学和化学特征

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100040

Philip Ebeling , Liora Bouzaglou , Dana Ashkenazi , Johannes H. Sterba , Alexander Fantalkin

{"title":"From the hills to the sea: Mineralogical and chemical characterization of a roof tile assemblage from the Byzantine church at Ashdod-Yam (Israel)","authors":"Philip Ebeling , Liora Bouzaglou , Dana Ashkenazi , Johannes H. Sterba , Alexander Fantalkin","doi":"10.1016/j.aia.2024.100040","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aia.2024.100040","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary approach characterizing roof tiles excavated at the Ashdod-Yam Byzantine church (Israel). Occupied from the late fourth/early fifth century CE, the building was destroyed by fire toward the end of the sixth century CE, sealed by tiles from the roof's collapse. The assemblage of 3846 roof tiles was initially classified through macroscopic and typological analysis. Selected samples were further subjected to optical microscopy of petrographic samples for provenance studies and ceramic technological insights, along with instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). The findings reveal the artifacts to be imported from the eastern Mediterranean ophiolitic complexes and from the Judean Hills. Additionally, fragments of painted ceramic roof tiles were tested using scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) to assess the composition of the pigments, examine their microstructures, and understand the manufacturing technologies used. Despite the presence of different types of roof tiles, the paint applied to some of them was found to be uniform, consisting of red, ocher-based pigment, likely sourced locally and applied during the roof's construction. This comprehensive examination on a relatively unexplored type of material sheds new light on specific construction choices during the Byzantine period in the southern Levant.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100038,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Archaeomaterials","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100040"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The use and disappearance of vegetal fibres in clay–sand mixtures in furnace walls in pre-seventeenth-century iron smelting sites in the Chūgoku region (Japan) 17世纪前Chūgoku地区炼铁遗址炉壁粘土-砂混合物中植物纤维的使用和消失（日本）

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100030

Xavier Michel-Tanaka (Associate professor)

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Casting the Buddha across Southern Asia 在南亚铸造佛像

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100029

Donna Strahan

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Ipsa and Odong: Decorative metalwork of Korea 韩国的装饰金属制品

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2023.04.002

Paul T. Craddock , Alessandra Giumlia-Mair

{"title":"Ipsa and Odong: Decorative metalwork of Korea","authors":"Paul T. Craddock , Alessandra Giumlia-Mair","doi":"10.1016/j.aia.2023.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aia.2023.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inlay and patination are important elements in the prestige metalwork of East and Southeast Asia. There are several regional varieties, but they have many features in common, particularly in the use of a patinated copper alloy containing small amounts of gold. This in turn may suggest a common or at least linked ancestry, but probably no earlier than the sixteenth century. Most of this metalwork is no longer produced, but in Korea, production is still practised, albeit on a small scale. Based on the authors’ visits to workshops producing these items, this paper describes the present production of <em>ipsa</em> and <em>odong</em>. In <em>ipsa</em> pieces, wires—usually made of silver, gold, or brass—are hammered into the chased surface of the body metal, predominantly copper alloy or iron, which is then patinated. <em>Odong</em> items are usually complex composites made of several separate parts carefully soldered together in stages. An <em>odong</em> is an artificially patinated special copper alloy containing small amounts of gold, into which silver can be inlaid. Conversely, an <em>odong</em> can itself be inlaid into silver. Then follows a complex process to develop the deep purple-black patination common to all these traditional pieces produced in East and Southeast Asia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100038,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Archaeomaterials","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100022"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87778818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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