In the framework of the ERC nEU-Med, Arianna Briano’s PhD project focused on the study of single fired sparse glazed pottery. The research aimed at identifying types and production techniques, defining the chronology and productive sites in Tuscany during the … Read More
Metal artefacts, whether iron, copper alloy or lead, present a number of methodological and conservation issues when compared to other classes of archaeological materials and although they cannot always provide the necessary chronological footholds offered by well-established pottery seriations, they … Read More
Where does the silver used to mint coins for Kings and Emperors and circulating in Tuscany between the 7th and the 12th century come from? Did the district of the Colline Metallifere, located in the regions western center and rich … Read More
How can one tackle the study of over 40,000 pottery fragments? Luisa Russo, ERC nEU-Med team member and PhD student, will show us how this can be done in her study of the Early Medieval assemblage of ceramic finds from … Read More
Photos! Photos! Photos! Many pictures are needed to elaborate 3D models of archaeological excavations. Giulio Poggi shows us how to record stratigraphic units by way of digital photogrammetry in order to reconstruct the chronological sequence of archaeological deposits from the … Read More
Lorenzo Marasco, scientific coordinator of the archaeological field investigations, accompanies us at Vetricella, a medieval central place located on the coast of southern Tuscany that between the 8th and 12th century was connected to the central power of the Kingdom … Read More
