Geoarchaeology from landscapes to material culture: Papers from the 7th Developing International Geoarchaeology conference

Shillito, Lisa‐Marie; Blong, John C.; Sawyer, Alicia; Mackay, Helen M. M.

doi:10.1002/gea.21742

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“…Although GPR surveys carried out in 2010 and 2011 provided useful results (Sala et al, 2010 & 2011), there were still some anomalies of difficult interpretation, probably due to the specific features of an alluvial environment (David et al, 2008, p. 16). In those contexts, the use of geophysical methods, as part of a more complex multidisciplinary approach to get a better comprehension of subsurface stratigraphy, is a topic that geoarchaeological literature has frequently addressed (Bates & Bates, 2000; Challis & Howard, 2006, p. 231; Goldberg & Aldeias, 2018; Shillito et al, 2019 and references therein). Suggested procedures in these alluvial scenarios usually encourage the definition of hierarchical approaches in which methods for landscape visualisation and archaeological prediction are settled according to the particular scale the project requires (Challis & Howard, 2006, pp.…”

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Assessing natural versus anthropogenic horizons through deposit modelling strategies at the Medieval Site of Santa Margarida (Martorell, Barcelona, Spain)

Allepuz

Ros²,

Bernal³

et al. 2021

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Geophysical surveys have been one of the most useful tools for non‐invasive archaeological field assessment. Whereas they have been regularly put into practice at the archaeological site of Santa Margarida (Martorell, Barcelona, Spain), the particular features of the site required a more specific strategy to identify the contact interface between anthropogenic and natural deposits and, therefore, to conclude the archaeological excavation. As the archaeological site is settled on Quaternary alluvia at the confluence of two rivers, and in the absence of built structures in some areas, it was extremely difficult to distinguish between anthropic layers and those silty or sandy natural deposits during fieldwork. Extensive soil survey by means of borehole logging, full‐coring, and Dynamic Penetrometer Super Heavy testing within this site has proved to be a useful strategy to identify the geological horizon and to map the original relief of past landscape before excavation tasks. This enabled us to plan our fieldwork better and to interpret particular features of the site. This paper aims at summarising the results of recent surveys and discussing the potential of this approach for the study of rural settlements and agrarian landscapes in the Middle Age.

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Assessing natural versus anthropogenic horizons through deposit modelling strategies at the Medieval Site of Santa Margarida (Martorell, Barcelona, Spain)

Allepuz

Ros²,

Bernal³

et al. 2021

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“…The research is framed in the activity carried out by the Associazione Nazionale per gli Interessi del Mezzogiorno d'Italia (ANIMI)-Società Magna Grecia in relation to the interdisciplinary work focused on the study of archaeological sites and their environmental context, and the techniques of Geoarchaeology (Rapp & Hill, 1998;Pollard, 1999;Ghilardi & Desruelles, 2009;Shahack-Gross, 2017;Gilbert, 2017;Gençer & Turan, 2017;Leonardi, 2017;Cortéz Pérez et al, 2018;Shillito et al, 2019) have been applied in order to: 1) illustrate the geological and geomorphological setting of the POB area; 2) describe the current state of the POB, its original architectural and structural elements, and their raw materials, to identify the possible construction period; 3) establish whether the POB is the Pons Aufidi of the old Appian Way; 4) improve the knowledge on the construction techniques of Roman bridges, particularly in Campania.…”

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Geoarchaelogical Study of the Roman Pietra Dell’Oglio Bridge at the Service of the Old Appian Way, Campania, Southern Italy

Chiocchini¹,

Piano²,

Gaeta³

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The Pietra dell'Oglio bridge is the only Roman infrastructure that crosses the Ofanto River between Mirabella Eclano (Aeclanum in Campania) and Venosa (Venusia in Basilicata), just near the border between Campania and Basilicata. The bridge was built on a substrate consisting of the stable middle Miocene Cerreta-Bosco di Pietra Palomba Sandstone (ACP) and where the Ofanto River valley is narrower. The current state of the bridge shows that 18 architectural and structural elements are original, 12 were restored, 1 was modified, 4 were reconstructed, and 4 were added in the last century. The original architectural and structural elements (ASEs) are built by the technique of opus quadratum and opus incertum using the pebbles of the Ofanto River and ashlars of phytoclastic travertine and ACP Sandstone cemented by very hard mortar. The opus incertum technique and its use for many bridges in Italy and France suggest that the Pietra dell'Oglio bridge was built between the II and I century BC at the service of a very important public road. The present research is allowed to identify the Pietra dell'Oglio bridge with the Pons Aufidi related to the old Appian Way layout between Mirabella Eclano and Venosa and contributes to improving the knowledge of Roman bridge engineering, particularly in Campania.

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Geoarchaeology from landscapes to material culture: Papers from the 7th Developing International Geoarchaeology conference

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Assessing natural versus anthropogenic horizons through deposit modelling strategies at the Medieval Site of Santa Margarida (Martorell, Barcelona, Spain)

Assessing natural versus anthropogenic horizons through deposit modelling strategies at the Medieval Site of Santa Margarida (Martorell, Barcelona, Spain)

Geoarchaelogical Study of the Roman Pietra Dell’Oglio Bridge at the Service of the Old Appian Way, Campania, Southern Italy

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