The micromorphological analysis of undisturbed sediment samples from the intermediate ditch backfill of the archaeological site of Vetricella, collected during the last excavation campaign, has begun. The thin sections will be analyzed through the use of the petrographic microscope with … Read More
During the 2018 excavation campaign at Vetricella, seven exploratory trenches were opened to investigate the nature of the ditches surrounding the site. Thanks to the preliminary results obtained from the trenches excavated during the 2016, we tried to deepen the … Read More
The Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy (University of Siena) are currently performing chemical analyses on the sediments of the coring samplings extracted in July and October 2018 in the flood plains of the Cornia and Pecora river. The multidisciplinary … Read More
The recent acquisition of X-ray images of canines from adult individuals of Vetricella has allowed us to perform the determination of age at death by the canine radiographic method (Cameriere et al., 2007a,b; 2009). Traditional anthropological methods to estimate age … Read More
The first phase of the work, carried out at the Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali of the University of Siena, consisted in reordering the assemblage of metal finds recovered during the excavation campaigns conducted between 2005 and … Read More
Friday 10 May 2019 from 11.00 a.m to 1 p.m, in aula 5, at Complesso dei Servi in Siena; will be held the lecture of Alessio Fiore (University of Turin): “Modelli di produzione e scambio: la grande proprietà in Italia … Read More
RESEARCHING TINTAGEL: DUMNONIA AND KING ARTHUR IN POST- ROMAN BRITAIN 14 February at 11.00 AM. Aula 6, Complesso dei Servi, Siena DOWNLOAD PDF info: ercneumed.unisi@gmail.com In the later Roman and post-Roman worlds (3rd to 7th centuries CE) a major … Read More
The documentation of the archaeological excavation in the site of Vetricella is made entirely with digital photogrammetry. This video, presented by the nEU-Med project team during the BRIGHT 2018 event, summarizes the various phases of acquisition, processing on the field … Read More
For the “nEu-Med day in Maremma” held the 31st of October 2018 in Scarlino, a spear head found during the archaeological campaign 2017 at Vetricella was documented using the photogrammetric technique, and on this basis two reconstructive hypotheses were modelled. … Read More
In the last weeks of the third archaeological campaign at Vetricella, an UAV aircraft was introduced to support the documentation of the site. The aim of the flights was to acquire several sets of images for the processing of three-dimensional … Read More
