Amico Museo: 11 may 2019
On Saturday 11th May at 5.oo pm, the event Amico Museo, promoted by Regione Toscana, will be host at the Sala Consiliare of Scarlino with the title: “Il futuro del Centro di Documentazione Riccardo Francovich – un nuovo viaggio nei … Read More
3D documentation of archaeological small finds
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
Vetricella from above: documentation with the drone
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
4 March 2019: Big Data Analysis, Clustering, and PCA
On Monday 4th march will be held, from 10.00 am to 11.00 am in aula B, Fieravecchia, a lecture by Prof. Alessandro Donati (Department of Biotechnology, chemistry and pharmacy, University of Siena) on some of the topics discussed in the … Read More
26 February 2019: Introduction to Big Data Analysis
Tuesday 26th February 2019, Aula B, Fieravecchia from 10 AM to 13 PM: Prof. Steven Loiselle (Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Siena) Introduction to Big Data Analysis A seminary on the approaches to the the … Read More
The analysis of the carpological finds at Vetricella and the management of agricultural resources
The discovery of botanical macro-remains like cereals, legumes and fruits in a number of excavation areas at the site of Vetricella (Scarlino, GR), pointed out the presence of activities related to the storage and use of agricultural resources. The analysis … Read More
nEU-Med day in Maremma: a first report
On october 31st the first nEU-Med day in Maremma took place. It was an event of great importance for the project, aimed at presenting to the public the data collected in the first three years of research. Unfortunately the bad … Read More
1 December 2018: International Conference
On Saturday 1 December 2018, Pergine Valsugana (Trentino, Italy) will host the International Conference: Fonti d’archivio di età medievale e moderna per la storia mineraria delle Alpi The conference is organized by Municipality of Pergine Valsugana in collaboration with … Read More
New analyses of ceramic finds from the site of Vetricella
The study of ceramic finds discovered at the site of Vetricella continues following the traditional recording of the material accompanied by more complex analysis. A number of samples of purified and semi-purified achromous ceramics, attributable to containers employed for storage … Read More
The third season of archaeological excavation at Vetricella (Scarlino,GR)
Since September 2018, the third archaeological excavation campaign on Vetricella site has begun. The researches on field, characterized as usual by a multidisciplinary approach, involve the project team composed by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, geoarchaeologists, anthropologists, numismatists and supported by a large … Read More
Alum landscapes. Archaeology of production and network economy
Luisa Dallai (edited by), Giovanna Bianchi (edited by), Francesca Romana Stasolla (edited by) Download eBook Alum is an extremely versatile and precious raw material, used since classical times in alchemy, pharmacy, leather tanning and in various fields … Read More
The nEU-Med WEBinars: a series of on-line lectures
The nEU-Med WEBinars are a series of on-line lectures held and recorded for the publication of the book The nEU-Med Project: Vetricella, An Early Medieval royal property on Tuscany’s Mediterranean, Giovanna Bianchi and Richard Hodges editors (Firenze, All’Insegna del Giglio, … Read More
The nEU-Med project: Vetricella, an Early Medieval royal property on Tuscany’s Mediterranean
Giovanna Bianchi (edited by), Richard Hodges (edited by) Download eBook This volume presents the multi-disciplinary research focussed upon the key site of the project, Vetricella, and its territory. Vetricella is … Read More
“Amphorae” and Early Medieval ceramic productions from a royal court in the Tyrrhenian Mediterranean. Archaeological investigations in Vetricella (Scarlino, GR)
Luisa Russo Download eBook Amphorae are a category of finds whose name refers to the most widespread transport container of the classical era, the amphora, but they differ from this above all in their small size and short-medium … Read More
Archeology of public goods. At the origins of economic growth in a Mediterranean region (IX-XI centuries)
Giovanna Bianchi Download eBook Over forty years of research in the Tuscan Maremma, one of the best archeologically investigated territories in Europe; an ERC-Advanced project, nEU-Med, which made it possible to re-read old data and produce new ones … Read More
Multidisciplinary Survey in the Pecora river Valley
Registrations are now open for the multidisciplinary survey of the Pecora river Valley ( Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Italy) which will take place on September 2022 (5th-30th). The survey integrates different methodologies to reconstruct the archaeo-mining and archaeo-metallurgical features of the … Read More
