ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13033
Guofeng Wei, Jiahui Zhang, Zhao An, Yuhu Kang
{"title":"Characterization of historical mortar from Huilongguan temple site in Wudang Mountain, Hubei province, China","authors":"Guofeng Wei, Jiahui Zhang, Zhao An, Yuhu Kang","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.13033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the royal Taoist buildings of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644 CE), the Huilongguan temple site of Wudang Mountain represents the highest level of art and architecture of that era. Thanks at least in part to the quality and durability of building mortar materials, the part buildings of the Huilongguan temple site are still well preserved after 500 years of erosion by wind and rain. The present study conducted muti-analytical techniques to explore the characterization of eight mortars from the Huilongguan temple site. The results indicate that the material formulae of these mortars from construction phases I–IV of the Ming dynasty were all sticky rice as the organic additive incorporated into the magnesian lime base, which originated from the calcination of dolomitic limestone. The contents of Ca carbonate in the studied mortar samples are about 39–66%; the design of mortar groundmass presents differences due to various building purposes. Different from sharp-edged rhombohedral calcite crystals of pure lime mortar, irregular nano-scale calcite crystals were found in the studied samples due to sticky rice slurry regulating the growth of Ca carbonate as an inhibitor and template, which formed more compact organic–inorganic composite microstructures.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 3","pages":"642-661"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143949939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-09-15DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13029
Katharina Zanier, Rok Brajkovič, Luka Gale, Matevž Novak
{"title":"Stone products of the Roman municipium of Neviodunum, Pannonia (modern Drnovo, Slovenia)","authors":"Katharina Zanier, Rok Brajkovič, Luka Gale, Matevž Novak","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13029","DOIUrl":"10.1111/arcm.13029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper presents the lithologies used in the stone products of Neviodunum (modern Drnovo in Slovenia), a Roman municipium in south-western Pannonia. For this purpose, 95 stone monuments were assessed. Petrographic and biostratigraphic analyses were carried out on 56 archaeological and 57 geological samples. Our research shows that, besides some rare exceptions, most stone products refer to three lithostratigraphic units: the Middle Miocene ‘Lithothamnium’ Limestone Member of the Laško Formation, the Upper Cretaceous Krško Formation and the Early Jurassic Krka Limestone Member of the Podbukovje Formation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 2","pages":"284-312"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/arcm.13029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13030
Édouard Canot, Renaud Delannay, Calogero M. Santoro
{"title":"Physical analysis and inverse methods applied to archaeological FIRE replications on ATACAMA desert soils, northern Chile","authors":"Édouard Canot, Renaud Delannay, Calogero M. Santoro","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/arcm.13030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Physical analysis of <i>in situ</i> fire experiments on soils are useful for the estimation of subsurface thermal diffusivity, which is affected by factors such as water, heterogeneity and heating conditions. To address the uncertainties due to these factors, a new data-processing procedure based on inverse methods was developed and experimentally applied to soils from an archaeological site in the Atacama Desert, Chile. By combining experimental data and numerical simulations, we determined the dominant physical processes arising during the heating. The analysis succeeded in defining practical procedures to obtain a more accurate estimation of the diffusivities, thus reducing the above-mentioned uncertainties.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 3","pages":"625-641"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/arcm.13030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13023
Maria Emanuela Mascaro, Emma Cantisani, Marilena Ricci, Pasquino Pallecchi, Silvia Vilucchi, Maria Chiara Dalconi, Lara Maritan
{"title":"The production of terra sigillata in Arezzo, Central Italy: an archaeometric investigation","authors":"Maria Emanuela Mascaro, Emma Cantisani, Marilena Ricci, Pasquino Pallecchi, Silvia Vilucchi, Maria Chiara Dalconi, Lara Maritan","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/arcm.13023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work deals with the archaeometric investigation on 25 fragments of <i>terra sigillata</i> (red-coated ceramic ware and moulds) found in the city of Arezzo, Tuscany (central Italy), and attributed to several important workshops from the first century BCE to the second century CE. Optical and spectroscopic techniques were used to analyse both the ceramic bodies and the red slips. All the potsherds showed a very fine-grained ceramic body, sharing similar mineralogical compositions, mainly consisting in quartz, plagioclase, pyroxene, hematite, K-feldspars, and illite/muscovite. The mineralogical data suggest that both the red-coated wares and the moulds were produced using the same calcareous-illitic clay and fired under oxidising conditions at temperatures between 850°C and 1000°C. A K-rich illitic clay with a Fe content around 10–15% (in wt%) was used to elaborate the slips. Al-substituted hematite was found in red slips by micro-Raman spectroscopy. Comparison of the chemical data with <i>terra sigillata</i> from other important production areas in Italy and from other regions of the Meditteranean Sea, allowed to define that the studied samples, locally produced in Arezzo, differ systematically from all others, although they show similarities with nearby Pisan productions as well as those Puteolan.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 3","pages":"604-624"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/arcm.13023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13027
Li Zhao, Yunli Wang, Yun Zhang, Xu Wang, Yong Lei, An Gu
{"title":"Non-invasive analysis of Chinese traditional dyes in royal textiles of the Qing dynasty by excitation–emission matrix fluorescence","authors":"Li Zhao, Yunli Wang, Yun Zhang, Xu Wang, Yong Lei, An Gu","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13027","DOIUrl":"10.1111/arcm.13027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chinese royal textiles of the Qing dynasty are widely collected around the world, creating a significant demand for dye identification in these textiles. However, the need for sampling in conventional analytical methods greatly limits their applicability. To address this issue, a non-invasive analysis method based on excitation–emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence was developed. In this study, the EEM spectra of 18 typical natural dyeing recipes used for royal textiles of the Qing dynasty were systematically characterized. The results demonstrated that EEM fluorescence is effective in discriminating between natural dyes with similar colour hues and various dyeing techniques. Furthermore, the dyeing recipes of two historical kesi cushions in the Palace Museum, Beijing, were non-invasively decoded.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 2","pages":"399-423"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-08-24DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13026
Yingfu Li, Hang Xiao, Chunyan Ma, Yasuyuki Murakami, Tianqiang Sun, Yuniu Li
{"title":"Microstructural and elemental analyses of slags excavated from the Gushishan iron-smelting site, Sichuan Province, China","authors":"Yingfu Li, Hang Xiao, Chunyan Ma, Yasuyuki Murakami, Tianqiang Sun, Yuniu Li","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13026","DOIUrl":"10.1111/arcm.13026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Shu Commandery was an important iron production center in southwest China during the Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220). In 2007, archaeologists excavated a Han Dynasty smelting furnace (L1) at the Gushishan site and collected large amounts of smelting remains including slags, furnace bricks, and ores. Scientific analysis of the excavated slags was carried out to ascertain that the Gushishan site was a pig iron smelting site. No flux was used at the Gushishan site, and the site is dated no later than the Eastern Han period. No remains related to iron casting of the Han Dynasty was found at or near the iron smelting sites in southwest China, which indicates a separation between iron smelting and iron casting as characteristics of the industrial layout in this region.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 3","pages":"589-603"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13028
Corina Solís, María Rodríguez‐Ceja, Alberto Alcántara‐Chávez, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐Carrillo
{"title":"Advancements in radiocarbon dating: An overview of its impact on Mexican archaeology","authors":"Corina Solís, María Rodríguez‐Ceja, Alberto Alcántara‐Chávez, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐Carrillo","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.13028","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we provide a concise historical summary tracing the evolution of radiocarbon dating techniques in Mexico and Central America. We explore the contributions of early pioneers who first employed radiocarbon dating methods, leading to the establishment of a Mexican accelerator mass spectrometry laboratory. The study highlights its pivotal role in shaping chronological frameworks for archaeological investigations in Mexico. Additionally, we describe two noteworthy case studies—Chiquihuite Cave and Golondrinas Chasm—as exemplars of successful applications of radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis in contemporary archaeological practices in Mexico.","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13016
Lynne M. Rouse, Ashleigh Haruda, Sydney A. Hunter, Sonja Kroll
{"title":"Meta-analysis of an integrated archaeobiological and environmental dataset: Revealing hidden trends in Chalcolithic and Bronze Age socio-economies in southern Central Asia","authors":"Lynne M. Rouse, Ashleigh Haruda, Sydney A. Hunter, Sonja Kroll","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13016","DOIUrl":"10.1111/arcm.13016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present the results of multivariate and exploratory statistical analyses of a large dataset that includes zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical, chrono-cultural and proxy environmental data. Data are drawn from published specialist reports from 39 archaeological sites and include 49 distinct chronological contexts dated from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (<i>c</i>.5300–1500 BCE) in southern Central Asia. Results support broad observations on the stability of agro-pastoral subsistence, while indicating that the environment had a minor influence in comparison with the economic and cultural use of species, as revealed through subtle variations across sites and as packages of co-occurring taxa that link sites within integrated socio-economies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 2","pages":"457-481"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13025
Michael Wilson, Briggs Buchanan, Michael Fisch, Michelle R. Bebber, Metin I. Eren, Justin Pargeter
{"title":"Controlled comparative tensile tests of backed versus non-backed edges’ adhesion: Inferences into stone tool functional properties","authors":"Michael Wilson, Briggs Buchanan, Michael Fisch, Michelle R. Bebber, Metin I. Eren, Justin Pargeter","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13025","DOIUrl":"10.1111/arcm.13025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Backing is a procedure for retouching a stone tool edge to an angle of or near 90°. Archaeologists have recorded backed lithic specimens in the Pleistocene and Holocene around the world. One prominent hypothesis for the occurrence of backing is that it increases a stone tool's adhesion relative to what it would have otherwise been with unmodified, sharp edges. We conducted a highly controlled semi-static tensile test in which we assessed lithic specimens that possessed both a backed and a non-backed edge, opposing each other. We hafted each specimen's backed and non-backed edges to wood, and the bi-hafted stone implement was then pulled apart using an Universal Instron Materials Tester, allowing for a direct ‘head-to-head’ comparison of the two edge types’ adhesive properties. Our tensile test results suggested no significant difference between backed and non-backed edges in terms of adhesion, which does not support the hypothesis that backing increases a lithic specimen's adhesion.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 2","pages":"267-283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/arcm.13025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ArchaeometryPub Date : 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13024
Hengmeng Geng, Xin Du, Qingli Wei, Yi Guo
{"title":"Reconstructing the social structure of kinship members in the Central Plains during the Late Shang and Western Zhou dynasties in China: A stable isotopic study on the Xisima site","authors":"Hengmeng Geng, Xin Du, Qingli Wei, Yi Guo","doi":"10.1111/arcm.13024","DOIUrl":"10.1111/arcm.13024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Kinship plays a role at the grassroots of social organization, especially in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which is an important research topic in China. However, the relationship between diet and the social status of kinship and kinship members has been little explored in previous studies. In this article, 52 skeletal bone collagen samples from humans and buried dogs from three different kinships in the Xisima cemetery in China were analysed by stable C and N isotope analysis to reveal dietary strategies, and thus explore subsistence patterns and social structure. Overall, the mean human <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C was −8.4‰ ± 1.3‰ (<i>n</i> = 44), with a range of −10.0‰ to −7.4‰, and the mean <i>δ</i><sup>15</sup>N was 9.0‰ ± 0.7‰ (<i>n</i> = 44), with a wide range of 7.9–11.1‰, which shows that C<sub>4</sub> food dominates people’s diet, and that their diet was varied. There are differences in diet and rank among different kinships. Similar situations exist among kinship members based on platforms. Along with previous research, this study provides unprecedented dietary details of different social stratification from martyrs, common people and small nobles to high-ranking nobles in order to better understand the hierarchical Shang and Zhou dynasties society based on kinship.</p>","PeriodicalId":8254,"journal":{"name":"Archaeometry","volume":"67 3","pages":"570-588"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}