NINMACH 2017

Session

Multi-technique approach and complementary methods 1.

11 Oct 2017, 16:10

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

21. Stone artefacts and Neutrons - Case studies from Hungary

Dr Katalin T. Biró (Hungarian National Museum)

11/10/2017, 16:10

Multi-technique approach and complementary techniques

Invited speaker

The application of large scale facility analytical techniques in archaeology, especially that of non-destructive methods has important new results in Hungary due to recent National Research Development and Innovation Projects. The objects investigated include various categories of cultural heritage including prehistoric finds (lithic artefacts, pottery, metal etc) and finds from more recent...

49. Non destructive determination of the manufacturing methods of ancient Indian blades and modern replicas through advanced applications of neutron tomography and neutron diffraction

Dr Francesco Grazzi (Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche)

11/10/2017, 16:40

Multi-technique approach and complementary techniques

Oral presentation

The analysis of the micro-structural features of ancient Indian blades has been carried out by neutron tomography and neutron diffraction. The results provide a clear identification of the different types of steel used to produce such weapons. Among them, only a small proportion of the large number of swords produced in India is made of hypereutectoid textured steel, namely wootz steel also...

52. Pre-historic funerary votive assemblages – stone vases provenancing using non-destructive neutron techniques

Prof. M. Isabel PRUDÊNCIO (Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, CAMPUS TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR, INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO)

11/10/2017, 17:00

Multi-technique approach and complementary techniques

Oral presentation

The Perdigões archaeological site is one of the largest known Portuguese Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic ditched enclosures (Neolithic and Chalcolithic) in southern Portugal. A variety of exogenous objects such as pottery, lithic artefacts, stone and bone and ivory idols, pectin shells, were found during excavations of several funerary contexts. In this work small stone vases from these...

68. What is inside in the bronze weapons and tools? Archaeometallurgical Characterization of Late Bronze Age Metal Artefacts by Neutron Methods

Mr Gábor János Tarbay (Hungarian National Museum, Archaeological Department, Prehistoric Collection)

11/10/2017, 17:20

Multi-technique approach and complementary techniques

Oral presentation

The aim of the presentation is to show the results of a cooperative work between the Hungarian National Museum, Archaeological Department, Prehistoric Collection and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Energy Research, Nuclear Analysis and Radiography Department, which focused on the bronze alloy artefacts from the Late Bronze Age (LBA, ca. 1500-1000 BC) Carpathian Basin. In the...

14. A multi-technique investigation of the incuse coinage of Magna Graecia

Dr Filomena Salvemini (ACNS-ANSTO, Sydney)

11/10/2017, 17:40

Multi-technique approach and complementary techniques

Oral presentation

This paper presents a synergic combination of different neutron techniques applied to characterize the manufacturing process of ‘incuse’ coins minted by Greek colonies in South Italy during the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. After the invention of coinage in the Asia Minor kingdom of Lydia around 630-620 BC, the manufacture of coins spread all around the Mediterranean. The Greek colonies in...