Christoph Berthold
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 110741 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christoph Berthold |
| NOMBRES | Christoph |
| APELLIDO | Berthold |
| FIRMA | BERTHOLD C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1369-1044 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Assembling the puzzle pieces
This study offers an integrated analysis of pottery and firing installations, used to investigate ancient pyrotechnology. Such combined approaches remain rare in archaeology, as kilns and other firing structures are often overlooked compared to the ceramics they produced. This limits insights into technological practices, resource management, and production systems. The Dinka Settlement Complex (DSC), recently discovered in the Peshdar Plain (Sul…
Eye makeup in Northwestern Iran at the time of the Assyrian Empire
Kohl was ubiquitous in ancient Egypt and the Middle East, and routinely included among the toiletries deposited in burials. For Egypt, kohl recipes are increasingly well‐studied and known to use a range of inorganic and organic ingredients. Although these are often lead‐based, manganese‐ and silicon‐rich compounds are also attested. For the Middle East, our still limited knowledge is now augmented by analysis of a new kohl sample from a burial in…
Investigating figulina pottery technology in the southern Po Plain through an integrated archaeometric approach
Multi-analytical archaeometric characterisation of figulina pottery from mid-late Neolithic sites of the Po Plain (Italy). • Results reveal variability in raw material acquisition and paste preparation. • Sherds show technological traits that depart from the local coarse ceramic productions. • Compatible raw materials were likely available within the region. • The socio-cultural implications of figulina production in the area are discussed. Figul…
The evolution of strength, elasticity and rupture behaviour of birch tar made with ‘double‐pot’ techniques during tar cooking
Birch tar was the first adhesive produced by humans. Its study has consequences for our understanding of human evolution and the development of specialised craftsmanship. One of the better‐documented birch tar making methods is the ‘double‐pot’ technique, where two containers are used, one containing bark, the other collecting the tar. Birch tar made with double‐pots has low viscosity and bad adhesive properties. To obtain a usable adhesive, it m…
Mortars in context
This paper presents a multipronged scientific study of mortars and plasters of the so‐called Ginnasio in the Hellenistic–Roman city of Solunto (Sicily, Italy). A selection of 16 well‐contextualized samples was collected to represent different functions and building phases of this private house. The results show that a variety of locally available raw materials was used as aggregates and to produce binders. The diversity of raw materials’ sources …
Back to black
Most previous studies on Attic black gloss technology focused on productions from Greece, especially Athens. However, the black gloss technique constitutes the most widespread decoration practice across the Mediterranean from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on both Attic and Atticising black gloss productions from sites in Sicily and Asia Minor, our work aims to shed new light on the technology of this decoration and its transmis…
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of kiln firing
Pottery kilns are a common feature in the archaeological record of different periods. However, these pyrotechnological installations are still seldom the target of interdisciplinary investigations. To fill this gap in our knowledge, an updraft kiln firing experiment was run at the Campus Galli open-air museum (southern Germany) by a team consisting of experimental archaeologists, material scientists, geoarchaeologists, and palaeobotanists. The en…
Slag characterization from the Roman vicus of Eisenberg (Germany)
The Roman vicus of Eisenberg in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) has always been considered to be an important Roman iron smelting centre due to numerous slag finds and relicts of furnaces. Most excavations that revealed iron working debris have been performed in the nineteenth or early twentieth century. Their results and interpretations have been considered to be doubtful, but more recent excavations have brought to light further relics of iron w…
Playing with fire
Fifth millennium BC miniature ceramic bottles from the south-eastern Prealps and Central Balkans
Miniature ceramic bottles with perforated handles entered the pottery repertoire of different Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities across the south-eastern Prealps, south-western Transdanubia and the Balkans in the 5th millennium BC. It is hypothesised that these small bottles were personal items that could be hung around the neck or waist, possibly to contain cosmetics or for cultic purposes. The aim of this study was to understand the fu…
Shared traditions and shard conservatism
This work investigates the technology of pottery production at the Chalcolithic site of Radovanu-La Muscalu (first half of the fifth millennium BCE), in southern Romania. The excavation of this settlement yielded a rich and well-contextualised archaeological assemblage that represents the last phases of development of Boian material culture, a Chalcolithic phenomenon that spread throughout the lower Danube area at the end of the sixth millennium …
New insights into Early Iron Age connections between Sardinia and Etruria
Pyrotechnological connections? Re-investigating the link between pottery firing technology and the origins of metallurgy in the Vinča Culture, Serbia
Phoenician lime for Phoenician wine
Despite the importance of wine in the Iron Age Mediterranean, known structures associated with its production are rare. Recent excavations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak have now revealed the first Iron Age wine press in Lebanon. Its remarkable state of preservation enables a systematic study of its plaster to be made as well as a comparison with two other plastered installations at the site. Archaeometric analyses offer new data concerning the comp…
The mechanical properties of heat-treated rocks
Early metallurgy in Sardinia
Early Bronze Age painted wares from Tell el-'Abd, Syria
Accurate Radiocarbon Dating of Archaeological Ash Using Pyrogenic Aragonite
Obtaining accurate age determinations from minerals in archaeological ash is a major unsolved issue in radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating. This is because the original 14 C content of calcite, the main component of ash, is altered by isotopic exchange. Pyrogenic aragonite, another mineral phase recently discovered in ash, might preserve its 14 C signature through time. Using a new method based on density separation and step combustion, we were able to is…
Nondestructive, optical and X-ray analytics with high local resolution on Attic white-ground lekythoi
A mysterious black ornamentation on an Early Bronze Age dagger from Schoolbek (Kosel), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
A multi-analytical approach to characterize an Early Bronze Age cosmetic material from Müslümantepe, Southeastern Anatolia
Ceremonial objects or household items? Non-destructive μ-XRD 2 and μ-XRF studies on three Neolithic hematite axes from Qatar
Three small stone axes were collected by the joint Qatari-German South Qatar Survey Project (SQSP) at two places close to the eastern and western coast of Qatar in autumn 2012. Associated with settlement remains, flint artefacts and pieces of ʿUbaid pottery, the implements have been dated to the fifth millennium BCE. Non-destructive μ-XRD2 and μ-XRF analyses could, for the first time, prove the use of hematite as the raw material for the manufact…
The mechanical properties of heat-treated rocks
Pyrotechnological connections? Re-investigating the link between pottery firing technology and the origins of metallurgy in the Vinča Culture, Serbia
Shared traditions and shard conservatism
This work investigates the technology of pottery production at the Chalcolithic site of Radovanu-La Muscalu (first half of the fifth millennium BCE), in southern Romania. The excavation of this settlement yielded a rich and well-contextualised archaeological assemblage that represents the last phases of development of Boian material culture, a Chalcolithic phenomenon that spread throughout the lower Danube area at the end of the sixth millennium …
Playing with fire
Phoenician lime for Phoenician wine
Despite the importance of wine in the Iron Age Mediterranean, known structures associated with its production are rare. Recent excavations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak have now revealed the first Iron Age wine press in Lebanon. Its remarkable state of preservation enables a systematic study of its plaster to be made as well as a comparison with two other plastered installations at the site. Archaeometric analyses offer new data concerning the comp…
Accurate Radiocarbon Dating of Archaeological Ash Using Pyrogenic Aragonite
Obtaining accurate age determinations from minerals in archaeological ash is a major unsolved issue in radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating. This is because the original 14 C content of calcite, the main component of ash, is altered by isotopic exchange. Pyrogenic aragonite, another mineral phase recently discovered in ash, might preserve its 14 C signature through time. Using a new method based on density separation and step combustion, we were able to is…
The evolution of strength, elasticity and rupture behaviour of birch tar made with ‘double‐pot’ techniques during tar cooking
Birch tar was the first adhesive produced by humans. Its study has consequences for our understanding of human evolution and the development of specialised craftsmanship. One of the better‐documented birch tar making methods is the ‘double‐pot’ technique, where two containers are used, one containing bark, the other collecting the tar. Birch tar made with double‐pots has low viscosity and bad adhesive properties. To obtain a usable adhesive, it m…
A multi-analytical approach to characterize an Early Bronze Age cosmetic material from Müslümantepe, Southeastern Anatolia
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of kiln firing
Pottery kilns are a common feature in the archaeological record of different periods. However, these pyrotechnological installations are still seldom the target of interdisciplinary investigations. To fill this gap in our knowledge, an updraft kiln firing experiment was run at the Campus Galli open-air museum (southern Germany) by a team consisting of experimental archaeologists, material scientists, geoarchaeologists, and palaeobotanists. The en…
Fifth millennium BC miniature ceramic bottles from the south-eastern Prealps and Central Balkans
Miniature ceramic bottles with perforated handles entered the pottery repertoire of different Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities across the south-eastern Prealps, south-western Transdanubia and the Balkans in the 5th millennium BC. It is hypothesised that these small bottles were personal items that could be hung around the neck or waist, possibly to contain cosmetics or for cultic purposes. The aim of this study was to understand the fu…
Early Bronze Age painted wares from Tell el-'Abd, Syria
Nondestructive, optical and X-ray analytics with high local resolution on Attic white-ground lekythoi
Back to black
Most previous studies on Attic black gloss technology focused on productions from Greece, especially Athens. However, the black gloss technique constitutes the most widespread decoration practice across the Mediterranean from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on both Attic and Atticising black gloss productions from sites in Sicily and Asia Minor, our work aims to shed new light on the technology of this decoration and its transmis…
Early metallurgy in Sardinia
A mysterious black ornamentation on an Early Bronze Age dagger from Schoolbek (Kosel), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Ceremonial objects or household items? Non-destructive μ-XRD 2 and μ-XRF studies on three Neolithic hematite axes from Qatar
Three small stone axes were collected by the joint Qatari-German South Qatar Survey Project (SQSP) at two places close to the eastern and western coast of Qatar in autumn 2012. Associated with settlement remains, flint artefacts and pieces of ʿUbaid pottery, the implements have been dated to the fifth millennium BCE. Non-destructive μ-XRD2 and μ-XRF analyses could, for the first time, prove the use of hematite as the raw material for the manufact…
A multi-analytical approach to characterize an Early Bronze Age cosmetic material from Müslümantepe, Southeastern Anatolia
A mysterious black ornamentation on an Early Bronze Age dagger from Schoolbek (Kosel), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Nondestructive, optical and X-ray analytics with high local resolution on Attic white-ground lekythoi
Accurate Radiocarbon Dating of Archaeological Ash Using Pyrogenic Aragonite
Obtaining accurate age determinations from minerals in archaeological ash is a major unsolved issue in radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating. This is because the original 14 C content of calcite, the main component of ash, is altered by isotopic exchange. Pyrogenic aragonite, another mineral phase recently discovered in ash, might preserve its 14 C signature through time. Using a new method based on density separation and step combustion, we were able to is…
Early Bronze Age painted wares from Tell el-'Abd, Syria
The mechanical properties of heat-treated rocks
Early metallurgy in Sardinia
New insights into Early Iron Age connections between Sardinia and Etruria
Pyrotechnological connections? Re-investigating the link between pottery firing technology and the origins of metallurgy in the Vinča Culture, Serbia
Phoenician lime for Phoenician wine
Despite the importance of wine in the Iron Age Mediterranean, known structures associated with its production are rare. Recent excavations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak have now revealed the first Iron Age wine press in Lebanon. Its remarkable state of preservation enables a systematic study of its plaster to be made as well as a comparison with two other plastered installations at the site. Archaeometric analyses offer new data concerning the comp…
Playing with fire
Fifth millennium BC miniature ceramic bottles from the south-eastern Prealps and Central Balkans
Miniature ceramic bottles with perforated handles entered the pottery repertoire of different Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities across the south-eastern Prealps, south-western Transdanubia and the Balkans in the 5th millennium BC. It is hypothesised that these small bottles were personal items that could be hung around the neck or waist, possibly to contain cosmetics or for cultic purposes. The aim of this study was to understand the fu…
Shared traditions and shard conservatism
This work investigates the technology of pottery production at the Chalcolithic site of Radovanu-La Muscalu (first half of the fifth millennium BCE), in southern Romania. The excavation of this settlement yielded a rich and well-contextualised archaeological assemblage that represents the last phases of development of Boian material culture, a Chalcolithic phenomenon that spread throughout the lower Danube area at the end of the sixth millennium …
Slag characterization from the Roman vicus of Eisenberg (Germany)
The Roman vicus of Eisenberg in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) has always been considered to be an important Roman iron smelting centre due to numerous slag finds and relicts of furnaces. Most excavations that revealed iron working debris have been performed in the nineteenth or early twentieth century. Their results and interpretations have been considered to be doubtful, but more recent excavations have brought to light further relics of iron w…
The evolution of strength, elasticity and rupture behaviour of birch tar made with ‘double‐pot’ techniques during tar cooking
Birch tar was the first adhesive produced by humans. Its study has consequences for our understanding of human evolution and the development of specialised craftsmanship. One of the better‐documented birch tar making methods is the ‘double‐pot’ technique, where two containers are used, one containing bark, the other collecting the tar. Birch tar made with double‐pots has low viscosity and bad adhesive properties. To obtain a usable adhesive, it m…
Mortars in context
This paper presents a multipronged scientific study of mortars and plasters of the so‐called Ginnasio in the Hellenistic–Roman city of Solunto (Sicily, Italy). A selection of 16 well‐contextualized samples was collected to represent different functions and building phases of this private house. The results show that a variety of locally available raw materials was used as aggregates and to produce binders. The diversity of raw materials’ sources …
Back to black
Most previous studies on Attic black gloss technology focused on productions from Greece, especially Athens. However, the black gloss technique constitutes the most widespread decoration practice across the Mediterranean from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on both Attic and Atticising black gloss productions from sites in Sicily and Asia Minor, our work aims to shed new light on the technology of this decoration and its transmis…
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of kiln firing
Pottery kilns are a common feature in the archaeological record of different periods. However, these pyrotechnological installations are still seldom the target of interdisciplinary investigations. To fill this gap in our knowledge, an updraft kiln firing experiment was run at the Campus Galli open-air museum (southern Germany) by a team consisting of experimental archaeologists, material scientists, geoarchaeologists, and palaeobotanists. The en…
Investigating figulina pottery technology in the southern Po Plain through an integrated archaeometric approach
Multi-analytical archaeometric characterisation of figulina pottery from mid-late Neolithic sites of the Po Plain (Italy). • Results reveal variability in raw material acquisition and paste preparation. • Sherds show technological traits that depart from the local coarse ceramic productions. • Compatible raw materials were likely available within the region. • The socio-cultural implications of figulina production in the area are discussed. Figul…
Eye makeup in Northwestern Iran at the time of the Assyrian Empire
Kohl was ubiquitous in ancient Egypt and the Middle East, and routinely included among the toiletries deposited in burials. For Egypt, kohl recipes are increasingly well‐studied and known to use a range of inorganic and organic ingredients. Although these are often lead‐based, manganese‐ and silicon‐rich compounds are also attested. For the Middle East, our still limited knowledge is now augmented by analysis of a new kohl sample from a burial in…
Assembling the puzzle pieces
This study offers an integrated analysis of pottery and firing installations, used to investigate ancient pyrotechnology. Such combined approaches remain rare in archaeology, as kilns and other firing structures are often overlooked compared to the ceramics they produced. This limits insights into technological practices, resource management, and production systems. The Dinka Settlement Complex (DSC), recently discovered in the Peshdar Plain (Sul…
Archaeology (19 obras) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (18 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 obras) · Geology (15 obras) · Geography (14 obras) · Materials Science (12 obras) · Mineralogy (12 obras) · Pottery (11 obras) · Building materials and conservation (8 obras) · Petrography (8 obras)